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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
663 km from Sokolac to Sokolac, about 13 h 05 of riding. It goes by way of Mramorje, Mramor in Vrbica and back through Mramorje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Bosnia & Herzegovina into Serbia - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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.
Read the complete Luburića polje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Luburića polje is where the day begins. Next is Mramorje.
Standing stones in Serbia's western hills are not what most visitors expect, but the medieval necropolises called stećci are among the most remarkable monuments in the Balkans. They are big carved tombstones, shaped like chests, slabs or gabled roofs, made between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, and decorated with spirals, crescents, hunting scenes and knights on horseback. UNESCO listed a selection of the sites in 2016, and Mramorje, in the municipality of Bajina Bašta, is the Serbian one. The word comes from the old Slavic for standing, and at Mramorje, among the grass and beech trees, the stones lean at slight angles, mossy and weathered.
Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mramorje comes up about 118 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mramor in Vrbica.
The Drina is a river that runs through every story in this part of the Balkans, and Foča sits on one of its finest stretches. The town, with about fourteen thousand people, lies where the Drina meets the Ćehotina, among steep green mountains, and the old Aladža mosque, a painted sixteenth-century building, was one of the most beautiful Ottoman monuments in the region before it was destroyed in the war of the 1990s and then rebuilt. Foča carries that history quietly, and it is a place where you should listen more than talk.
Read the complete Mramor in Vrbica write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 329 km into the recorded legs you reach Mramor in Vrbica. Next is back through Mramorje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mramorje, late in the day. Next is Luburića polje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Luburića polje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Luburića polje. That is the ride.
Luburića polje → Mramorje is 118 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramorje → Mramor in Vrbica is 211 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mramor in Vrbica → back through Mramorje is 207 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mramorje → Luburića polje is 128 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.