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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Foča it runs 267 km to Foča; allow about 7 h 44 of riding. On the way it passes Durmitor National Park, Bare Žugića and back through Durmitor National Park. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,550 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Bosnia & Herzegovina into Montenegro - carry ID and check the toll rules.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 27 km this is Montenegro Durmitor Ring, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Check the pass is open before you commit to it.
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.
Mramor in Vrbica is where the day begins. Next is Durmitor National Park.
Durmitor is the kind of mountain range that makes you pull over every few minutes. In the north of Montenegro, a limestone massif rises above a high plateau around Žabljak, with jagged peaks, glacial lakes and deep canyons carved by the Tara, Piva and Sušica rivers. The national park was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 1980, and it includes the Tara canyon, one of the deepest gorges in Europe. Glaciers shaped the range, leaving cirques and lakes scattered across the high ground, of which the Black Lake near Žabljak is the best known.
Read the complete Durmitor National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Durmitor National Park comes up about 105 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bare Žugića.
Near Žabljak, on the high plateau below Durmitor, a group of medieval tombstones lies in a meadow at Bare Žugića. These are stećci, massive carved stones that mark graves from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, found across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro. Some are simple slabs, others shaped like houses or sarcophagi, decorated with carvings of spirals, crosses, vines, hunting scenes, dancers and figures with raised hands. Their makers belonged to various Christian communities of the medieval Balkans, and their meaning is still debated. In 2016 UNESCO listed a selection of the most important sites, including Bare Žugića, as the Stećci Medieval Tombstone Graveyards. Seeing these stones in a high meadow, surrounded by mountains, is quietly moving.
Read the complete Bare Žugića write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 132 km into the recorded legs you reach Bare Žugića. Next is back through Durmitor National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Durmitor National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Durmitor National Park, late in the day. Next is Mramor in Vrbica.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mramor in Vrbica write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mramor in Vrbica. That is the ride.
Mramor in Vrbica → Durmitor National Park is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Durmitor National Park → Bare Žugića is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bare Žugića → back through Durmitor National Park is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Durmitor National Park → Mramor in Vrbica is 105 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.