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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560 km from Novi Travnik to Novi Travnik, about 11 h 16 of riding. On the way it passes Prašuma Janj, Dugo polje at Blidinje, Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar and back through Dugo polje at Blidinje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,200 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Central Bosnia is a country of green hills folded one behind another, and Maculje sits in the middle of it, a few kilometres from Novi Travnik in the Lašva valley. If you have not heard of it, you are in good company, because what draws people here is quiet and very old. Maculje is a necropolis of stećci, the massive carved limestone tombstones that medieval Bosnians, Croatians and Serbs raised between roughly the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries. They stand in the grass in rows, slabs shaped like chests and gabled roofs, with weathered carvings of crescent moons, spirals, hunters and dancers.
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Maculje is where the day begins. Next is Prašuma Janj.
Prašuma means primeval forest, and Janj is one of the few places in Europe where that word is literally true. In the hills above the Janj river, between Šipovo and Donji Vakuf in central Bosnia, a block of mixed beech, fir and spruce forest has survived without logging, its oldest trees reaching enormous heights and girths. Since 2021 it has been part of the World Heritage site of ancient beech forests of Europe, joining a chain of reserves from the Carpathians to the Pyrenees.
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Prašuma Janj comes up about 94 km into the recorded legs. Next is Dugo polje at Blidinje.
High on a karst plateau in Herzegovina, between the massive mountains of Čvrsnica and Vran, lies Blidinje, a wide upland valley of meadows, limestone outcrops and black pine forests at around twelve hundred metres. At Dugo polje, the long field, a cluster of medieval tombstones stands in the grass, carved with crosses, spirals, rosettes, hunting scenes and human figures. These are stećci, the distinctive gravestones of the medieval Balkans, made between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and Dugo polje is one of the most impressive groups, part of the collection of stećci sites listed by UNESCO in 2016 across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
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about 203 km into the recorded legs you reach Dugo polje at Blidinje. Next is Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar.
The Old Bridge in Mostar is a single stone arch, slender and impossibly high, leaping across the emerald-green Neretva between two fortified towers. The Ottomans built it in the 1560s, designed by an architect named Mimar Hayruddin, and for more than four centuries it stood as a symbol of the city. On 9 November 1993, during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, it was shelled and collapsed into the river. It was rebuilt with the original techniques and stone recovered from the riverbed and reopened in 2004, and the following year UNESCO listed the Old Bridge Area as a symbol of reconciliation and cultural coexistence.
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Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar, about halfway. Next is back through Dugo polje at Blidinje.
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Read the complete Dugo polje at Blidinje write-up.
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back through Dugo polje at Blidinje sits at 239 km, about halfway. Next is back through Prašuma Janj.
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Read the complete Prašuma Janj write-up.
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back through Prašuma Janj comes up about 466 km into the recorded legs. Next is Maculje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Maculje write-up.
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Maculje closes the day.
Maculje → Prašuma Janj is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Prašuma Janj → Dugo polje at Blidinje is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dugo polje at Blidinje → Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar → back through Dugo polje at Blidinje is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Dugo polje at Blidinje → back through Prašuma Janj is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Prašuma Janj → Maculje is 94 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.