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 373 km round trip from Berkovići - roughly 8 h 37 in the saddle. On the way it passes Old City of Dubrovnik, Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K and back through Old City of Dubrovnik. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,050 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia and Montenegro - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Grey limestone, thin grass, a scatter of oaks and juniper, and among them heavy blocks of carved stone lying where they were set some six or seven hundred years ago. Potkuk, near the hamlet of Bitunja in eastern Herzegovina, is one of the necropolises of stećci, the medieval tombstones that were added to the World Heritage list in 2016 together with sites across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
Read the complete Potkuk in Bitunja write-up.
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Potkuk in Bitunja is where the day begins. Next is Old City of Dubrovnik.
Dubrovnik is the place where the Dalmatian coast reaches its theatrical climax: a walled city of pale limestone thrust out into a sea that refuses to be any colour but deep blue. The walls run for nearly two kilometres around the old town, with towers, bastions and the great Minčeta fortress on the landward side, and inside them the marble-paved Stradun runs straight from the Pile Gate to the old port. For centuries this was the Republic of Ragusa, a small, astute maritime state that survived between Venice and the Ottoman Empire through trade, diplomacy and a famously effective tribute system, until Napoleon ended its independence in the early nineteenth century.
Read the complete Old City of Dubrovnik write-up.
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Old City of Dubrovnik comes up about 109 km into the recorded legs. Next is Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K.
The Bay of Kotor is a drowned river canyon on the Montenegrin coast, a set of linked basins pushed deep into the limestone mountains, and here at its inner reaches, around Risan and Perast, it feels more like a Norwegian fjord than the Adriatic. The mountains drop almost straight into the water, the villages cling to a thin strip of shore, and the light changes the colour of the sea from green to steel to deep blue as the day goes on. The whole region is on the UNESCO list for its natural beauty and the cultural layering of its little towns.
Read the complete Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K write-up.
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about 185 km into the recorded legs you reach Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K. Next is back through Old City of Dubrovnik.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old City of Dubrovnik write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Old City of Dubrovnik, late in the day. Next is Potkuk in Bitunja.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Potkuk in Bitunja write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Potkuk in Bitunja. That is the ride.
Potkuk in Bitunja → Old City of Dubrovnik is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Old City of Dubrovnik → Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Natural and Culturo-Historical Region of K → back through Old City of Dubrovnik is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Old City of Dubrovnik → Potkuk in Bitunja is 110 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.