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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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From Višegrad it runs 423 km to Višegrad; allow about 7 h 16 of riding. It goes by way of Mramorje, Borak in the village of Burati and back through Mramorje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Bosnia & Herzegovina into Serbia - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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 Mramorje.
The high country behind the Drina is Tara, a wide, forested mountain that stretches for kilometres, and it holds one of Europe's best-known tree stories. The Serbian spruce, the omorika, is a tall, narrow conifer that once grew across much of Europe, before the ice ages squeezed it into a tiny range on the Drina's slopes. It survived here, and Tara National Park protects it, along with a rich forest of fir and beech, brown bears, chamois and wolves. A second Mramorje stands in this landscape, a village scatter of stećci near the settlement of Musići, a medieval graveyard with large carved stones leaning in the grass and half buried by moss.
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Mramorje comes up about 70 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 212 km into the recorded legs you reach Borak in the village of Burati. Next is back through Mramorje.
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Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
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back through Mramorje, 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 → Mramorje is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramorje → Borak in the village of Burati is 142 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borak in the village of Burati → back through Mramorje is 142 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mramorje → Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is 70 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.