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 146 km round trip from Stolac - roughly 3 h 29 in the saddle. The stops in between: Potkuk in Bitunja, Kalufi in Krekovi and back through Potkuk in Bitunja. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. The line favours views over speed.
Above the Bregava river valley, a few kilometres from Stolac in Herzegovina, a hillside is covered with huge stone slabs that look like sarcophagi and tilting boxes. These are stećci, medieval tombstones that were carved in Bosnia, Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia and Montenegro between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, and Radimlja is the best known cemetery of them. Over a hundred of them stand here, and several carry reliefs of exceptional quality, showing hunting scenes, riders with spears, dancing in a circle, stylised crescent moons, spirals and vines. In 2016 UNESCO listed a group of these sites together.
Read the complete Radimlja write-up.
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Radimlja is where the day begins. Next is Potkuk in Bitunja.
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.
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Potkuk in Bitunja comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Kalufi in Krekovi.
The Nevesinjsko polje is a broad, flat-floored basin high in the karst of eastern Herzegovina, ringed by bare limestone hills, and at Krekovi, near its edge, a group of stećci known as Kalufi stands in the grass. These medieval tombstones, carved between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, belong to the transnational World Heritage Site inscribed in 2016. At Krekovi you find slabs, chests and gabled forms, some decorated with crosses, rosettes and borders, set in rows facing roughly east to west in the old tradition.
Read the complete Kalufi in Krekovi write-up.
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about 72 km into the recorded legs you reach Kalufi in Krekovi. Next is back through Potkuk in Bitunja.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Potkuk in Bitunja write-up.
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back through Potkuk in Bitunja, late in the day. Next is Radimlja.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Radimlja write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Radimlja. That is the ride.
Radimlja → Potkuk in Bitunja is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Potkuk in Bitunja → Kalufi in Krekovi is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kalufi in Krekovi → back through Potkuk in Bitunja is 48 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Potkuk in Bitunja → Radimlja is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.