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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310 km from Sokolac to Sokolac, about 7 h 59 of riding. On the way it passes Borak in the village of Burati, Kučarin in Hrančići, Gvozno and Čengića Bara. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
The Romanija plateau east of Sarajevo is a strange and beautiful upland: rolling meadows and dark pine forests at around a thousand metres, under a sky that seems bigger than it should. Luburića polje, a field near the town of Sokolac, holds one of the necropolises of stećci, the medieval tombstones of the Balkans listed by UNESCO, and the surrounding countryside has been a place of burial for thousands of years.
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Luburića polje is where the day begins. Next is Borak in the village of Burati.
Scattered across the meadows and forest edges of Bosnia and Herzegovina are thousands of carved medieval tombstones called stećci, great blocks of limestone shaped like chests, slabs or little gabled houses, some plain and some carved with spirals, vines, crescent moons, hunting scenes, dancers and raised hands. They date mostly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and together with sites in Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia they were inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2016 as the Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards. Borak, near the village of Burati in the hills above Rogatica, is one of these graveyards, a cluster of stones lying among the grass where they have stood for six hundred years or more.
Read the complete Borak in the village of Burati write-up.
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Borak in the village of Burati comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kučarin in Hrančići.
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.
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about 60 km into the recorded legs you reach Kučarin in Hrančići. Next is Gvozno.
Out on the high karst plateau around Kalinovik, south of Sarajevo, the land opens into wide pastures and rocky hills at well over a thousand metres, ringed by the mountains of Treskavica, Lelija and Zelengora. Here and there, half-hidden in the grass, lie stećci, the carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this corner of the Balkans. The necropolis at Gvozno is one of the sites included in the UNESCO listing of stećci, which spans Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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Gvozno, about halfway. Next is Čengića Bara.
Čengića Bara is a high pasture on the plateau around Kalinovik, in the mountainous heart of eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina, and it is one of the most remote of the stećci sites listed by UNESCO in 2016. A group of medieval tombstones stands in the open grassland, carved with simple decorations, weathered by centuries of wind, snow and sun. Few visitors make it here, and that is part of the appeal. The stones seem to belong to the landscape itself, as much as the rocks and the grass around them.
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Čengića Bara sits at 106 km, about halfway. Next is back through Gvozno.
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back through Gvozno comes up about 172 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Kučarin in Hrančići.
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about 246 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Kučarin in Hrančići. Next is back through Borak in the village of Burati.
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back through Borak in the village of Burati, late in the day. Next is Luburića polje.
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Read the complete Luburića polje write-up.
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The route ends here after 310 km.
Luburića polje → Borak in the village of Burati is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borak in the village of Burati → Kučarin in Hrančići is 34 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kučarin in Hrančići → Gvozno is 76 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Gvozno → Čengića Bara is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Čengića Bara → back through Gvozno is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Gvozno → back through Kučarin in Hrančići is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Kučarin in Hrančići → back through Borak in the village of Burati is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borak in the village of Burati → Luburića polje is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.