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 Donji Vakuf it runs 391 km to Donji Vakuf; allow about 7 h 55 of riding. It goes by way of Dugo polje at Blidinje, Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup and back through Dugo polje at Blidinje. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For about 85 km this is Bosnia Mostar to Sarajevo Mountain Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Prašuma means primeval forest, and Janj is one of the few places in Europe where that word is literally true. In the hills above the Janj river, between Šipovo and Donji Vakuf in central Bosnia, a block of mixed beech, fir and spruce forest has survived without logging, its oldest trees reaching enormous heights and girths. Since 2021 it has been part of the World Heritage site of ancient beech forests of Europe, joining a chain of reserves from the Carpathians to the Pyrenees.
Read the complete Prašuma Janj write-up.
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Prašuma Janj is where the day begins. Next is Dugo polje at Blidinje.
High on a karst plateau in Herzegovina, between the massive mountains of Čvrsnica and Vran, lies Blidinje, a wide upland valley of meadows, limestone outcrops and black pine forests at around twelve hundred metres. At Dugo polje, the long field, a cluster of medieval tombstones stands in the grass, carved with crosses, spirals, rosettes, hunting scenes and human figures. These are stećci, the distinctive gravestones of the medieval Balkans, made between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and Dugo polje is one of the most impressive groups, part of the collection of stećci sites listed by UNESCO in 2016 across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia.
Read the complete Dugo polje at Blidinje write-up.
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Dugo polje at Blidinje comes up about 109 km into the recorded legs. Next is Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup.
The Greek hillock, Grčka glavica, is a misleading name: the medieval tombstones that crown it have nothing to do with Greece. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, folk tradition often credited the stećci, the great carved medieval tombstones of the region, to Greeks, giants or other mysterious ancestors, and the names have stuck. The necropolis near the village of Biskup, in the hills south of Konjic, is a group of these stones, some decorated with reliefs of crosses, rosettes, hunting scenes or figures, and it is one of the sites in the UNESCO listing of stećci medieval tombstone graveyards, listed in 2016.
Read the complete Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup write-up.
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about 194 km into the recorded legs you reach Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup. Next is back through Dugo polje at Blidinje.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dugo polje at Blidinje write-up.
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back through Dugo polje at Blidinje, late in the day. Next is Prašuma Janj.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Prašuma Janj write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Prašuma Janj. That is the ride.
Prašuma Janj → Dugo polje at Blidinje is 109 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dugo polje at Blidinje → Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Grčka glavica in the village of Biskup → back through Dugo polje at Blidinje is 89 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Dugo polje at Blidinje → Prašuma Janj is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.