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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435 km from Višegrad to Višegrad, about 8 h 11 of riding. On the way it passes Mramor in Vrbica, Borak in the village of Burati and back through Mramor in Vrbica. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Eleven stone arches cross the Drina at Višegrad, pale against the green water, and the bridge has been doing so since the 1570s. It was commissioned by Mehmed Paša Sokolović, a boy from a nearby village who was taken as a child into Ottoman service and rose to become Grand Vizier, the most powerful man in the empire after the sultan. He had it built by Mimar Sinan, the greatest architect of the Ottoman age, and it remains one of the masterpieces of that era, listed by UNESCO in 2007.
Read the complete Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad write-up.
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Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is where the day begins. 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.
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Mramor in Vrbica comes up about 104 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 217 km into the recorded legs you reach Borak in the village of Burati. Next is back through Mramor in Vrbica.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mramor in Vrbica write-up.
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back through Mramor in Vrbica, late in the day. Next is Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad. That is the ride.
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad → Mramor in Vrbica is 104 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mramor in Vrbica → Borak in the village of Burati is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Borak in the village of Burati → back through Mramor in Vrbica is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mramor in Vrbica → Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.