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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466 km from Dubrovnik to Dubrovnik, about 10 h 40 of riding. It goes by way of Boljuni, Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup and back through Boljuni. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Croatia into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. An island ride, so the sea is never far.
From the walls of Dubrovnik you look straight across a short stretch of sea to a low, dark green island covered in pines and holm oaks. That is Lokrum, and it is the closest thing the city has to a back garden. No cars or motorbikes are allowed on it, and nobody may stay overnight. You leave the bike on the mainland, catch one of the regular boats from the old harbour, and in about a quarter of an hour you step onto a quay with peacocks strutting about as if they owned the place, which they more or less do.
Read the complete Lokrum Island write-up.
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Lokrum Island is where the day begins. Next is Boljuni.
In the stony hills of eastern Herzegovina, a few kilometres from Stolac, a field of grey limestone blocks lies scattered among oak scrub and dry grass. These are stećci, medieval tombstones carved between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and Boljuni has a few hundred of them, many decorated with reliefs: rosettes, crescents, spirals, hunters with spears, dancing figures holding hands, a man raising an oversized hand as if in greeting. Nobody fully agrees on who made them or what all the symbols mean, which makes standing among them oddly moving. Together with other cemeteries across Bosnia and Herzegovina and its neighbours, Boljuni is part of the UNESCO site of Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards, inscribed in 2016.
Read the complete Boljuni write-up.
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Boljuni comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. Next is Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup.
The Greek hillock, Grčka glavica, is a misleading name: the medieval tombstones that crown it have nothing to do with Greece. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, folk tradition often credited the stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones of the region, to Greeks, giants or other mysterious ancestors, and the names have stuck. The necropolis near the village of Biskup, in the hills south of Konjic, is a group of these stones, some decorated with reliefs of crosses, rosettes, hunting scenes or figures, and it is one of the sites in the UNESCO listing of stećci medieval tombstone graveyards, listed in 2016.
Read the complete Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup write-up.
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about 232 km into the recorded legs you reach Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup. Next is back through Boljuni.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boljuni write-up.
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back through Boljuni, late in the day. Next is Lokrum Island.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Lokrum Island write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Lokrum Island. That is the ride.
Lokrum Island → Boljuni is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Boljuni → Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup is 149 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup → back through Boljuni is 152 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Boljuni → Lokrum Island is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.