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 Bajina Bašta it runs 388 km to Bajina Bašta; allow about 6 h 41 of riding. It goes by way of Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, Borak in the village of Burati and back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Serbia into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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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Mramorje is where the day begins. Next is Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad.
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 comes up about 80 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 194 km into the recorded legs you reach Borak in the village of Burati. Next is back through 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 through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, late in the day. Next is Mramorje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mramorje. That is the ride.
Mramorje → Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad → Borak in the village of Burati is 114 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Borak in the village of Burati → back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad is 114 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad → Mramorje is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.