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 509 km round trip from Foča - roughly 9 h 06 in the saddle. The stops in between: Borak in the village of Burati, Mramorje and back through Borak in the village of Burati. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,300 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Bosnia & Herzegovina into Serbia - carry ID and check the toll rules.
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 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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Borak in the village of Burati comes up about 108 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mramorje.
Standing stones in Serbia's western hills are not what most visitors expect, but the medieval necropolises called stećci are among the most remarkable monuments in the Balkans. They are big carved tombstones, shaped like chests, slabs or gabled roofs, made between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries across Bosnia, Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia, and decorated with spirals, crescents, hunting scenes and knights on horseback. UNESCO listed a selection of the sites in 2016, and Mramorje, in the municipality of Bajina Bašta, is the Serbian one. The word comes from the old Slavic for standing, and at Mramorje, among the grass and beech trees, the stones lean at slight angles, mossy and weathered.
Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
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about 250 km into the recorded legs you reach Mramorje. Next is back through Borak in the village of Burati.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Borak in the village of Burati write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Borak in the village of Burati, 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 → Borak in the village of Burati is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Borak in the village of Burati → Mramorje is 142 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mramorje → back through Borak in the village of Burati is 151 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Borak in the village of Burati → Mramor in Vrbica is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.