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 510 km round trip from Ðurići - roughly 11 h 03 in the saddle. It goes by way of Kučarin in Hrančići, Mramor in Musići and back through Kučarin in Hrančići. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Serbia into Bosnia & Herzegovina - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
Read the complete Mramorje write-up.
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Mramorje is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 148 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mramor in Musići.
In a meadow near the village of Musići, in the hills around Olovo in central Bosnia, stands a group of stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones that are unique to this part of the Balkans. They date roughly from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and the people who raised them were Bosnian Christians, Catholics and Orthodox alike. The Musići necropolis is part of the group of stećci cemeteries inscribed by UNESCO in 2016, and its stones are among the finest: big slabs and house-shaped blocks decorated with spirals, crosses, vines, hunting scenes and strange, almost abstract human figures.
Read the complete Mramor in Musići write-up.
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about 261 km into the recorded legs you reach Mramor in Musići. Next is back through Kučarin in Hrančići.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kučarin in Hrančići write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Kučarin in Hrančići, 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 → Kučarin in Hrančići is 148 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Kučarin in Hrančići → Mramor in Musići is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mramor in Musići → back through Kučarin in Hrančići is 112 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Kučarin in Hrančići → Mramorje is 137 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.