CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Prača it runs 401 km to Prača; allow about 9 h 18 of riding. It goes by way of Mramor in Musići, Dolovi in the village of Umoljani and back through Mramor in Musići. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 94 km this is Bosnia Mostar to Sarajevo Mountain Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Grey limestone slabs lie in the grass at Hrančići like a congregation that sat down six hundred years ago and never got up. These are stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are found across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, and the group at Kučarin is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci graveyards in 2016. Some are plain chests, some are gabled like little houses, and a few carry reliefs of spirals, vines, shields or figures with raised hands that still nobody fully agrees how to read.
Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
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Kučarin in Hrančići is where the day begins. Next is Mramor in Musići.
In a meadow near the village of Musići, in the hills around Olovo in central Bosnia, stands a group of stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this part of the Balkans. They date roughly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and the people who raised them were Bosnian Christians, Catholics and Orthodox alike. The Musići necropolis is part of the group of stećci cemeteries inscribed by UNESCO in 2016, and its stones are among the finest: big slabs and house-shaped blocks decorated with spirals, crosses, vines, hunting scenes and strange, almost abstract human figures.
Read the complete Mramor in Musići write-up.
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Mramor in Musići comes up about 103 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dolovi in the village of Umoljani.
Umoljani clings to the edge of the Bjelašnica massif above the Rakitnica canyon, an hour or so southwest of Sarajevo by road, and it is one of those mountain villages that feel a world away from the cities below. Stone houses with steep roofs, a small mosque and a scattering of shepherds' huts sit on a high green plateau, and nearby, at a spot known as Dolovi, a group of medieval tombstones called stećci lies in the grass. These carved limestone monuments, made between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, are found across Bosnia and neighbouring countries and were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2016. Their reliefs of hunters, dancers, spirals and crescent moons are a fascinating window onto a culture that left few written records.
Read the complete Dolovi in the village of Umoljani write-up.
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about 197 km into the recorded legs you reach Dolovi in the village of Umoljani. Next is back through Mramor in Musići.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mramor in Musići write-up.
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back through Mramor in Musići, late in the day. Next is Kučarin in Hrančići.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kučarin in Hrančići. That is the ride.
Kučarin in Hrančići → Mramor in Musići is 103 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mramor in Musići → Dolovi in the village of Umoljani is 94 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dolovi in the village of Umoljani → back through Mramor in Musići is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mramor in Musići → Kučarin in Hrančići is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.