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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A 498 km round trip from Višegrad - roughly 11 h 59 in the saddle. The stops in between: Mramorje, Borak in the village of Burati, Kučarin in Hrančići and back through Borak in the village of Burati. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 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.
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 67 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 211 km into the recorded legs you reach Borak in the village of Burati. 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.
Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
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Kučarin in Hrančići, about halfway. Next is back through Borak in the village of Burati.
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Read the complete Borak in the village of Burati write-up.
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back through Borak in the village of Burati sits at 141 km, about halfway. Next is back through Mramorje.
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Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
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back through Mramorje comes up about 415 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad closes the day.
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad → Mramorje is 67 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramorje → Borak in the village of Burati is 144 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borak in the village of Burati → Kučarin in Hrančići is 37 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kučarin in Hrančići → back through Borak in the village of Burati is 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borak in the village of Burati → back through Mramorje is 128 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mramorje → Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.