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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From Foča it runs 701 km to Foča; allow about 17 h 19 of riding. On the way it passes Durmitor National Park, Grčko groblje, Grebnice 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. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 105 km this is Montenegro Durmitor Ring, a road with a name of its own and a reason for 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.
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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.
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Durmitor National Park comes up about 105 km into the recorded legs. Next is Grčko groblje.
Greek cemetery is what the name means, and you will find the same name attached to old graveyards across the mountains of Bosnia and Montenegro. For generations, local people attributed the mysterious carved tombstones of the medieval period to the Greeks, a vague term for ancient or foreign peoples, because nobody remembered who had made them. In fact, these stećci were carved by the medieval communities of the region between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and the groups that bear the name Grčko groblje are among the many sites included in the UNESCO listing.
Read the complete Grčko groblje write-up.
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about 157 km into the recorded legs you reach Grčko groblje.
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.
Durmitor National Park, about halfway. Next is Grebnice.
Grebnice, a name that simply means something like grave-stones, is a field of stećci near Bileća in eastern Herzegovina. These are the massive carved tombstones of medieval Bosnia and its neighbours, cut from local limestone between roughly the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, shaped like chests, slabs or little houses with gabled roofs, and sometimes covered with spirals, rosettes, swords, shields and dancing figures. UNESCO listed a selection of the most important sites together in 2016, and the necropolis here is one of the eastern Herzegovinian groups. Standing among them on a still afternoon, with the grass grown up around the stones, is a strangely moving experience.
Read the complete Grebnice write-up.
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Grebnice sits at 181 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 493 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Grčko groblje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Grčko groblje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 545 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Grčko groblje.
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.
The route ends here after 701 km.
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 → Grčko groblje is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grčko groblje → Durmitor National Park is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Durmitor National Park → Grebnice is 142 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Grebnice → back through Durmitor National Park is 142 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Durmitor National Park → back through Grčko groblje is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Grčko groblje → back through Durmitor National Park is 52 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.