CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 389 km round trip from Labunista - roughly 9 h 46 in the saddle. The stops in between: Dlaboka Reka, Church of the Virgin of Leviša and back through Dlaboka Reka. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,500 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses Albania, North Macedonia and Kosovo - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 85 km this is North Macedonia Mavrovo and Galicnik Route, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Rrajca is a village in the hills on the western side of Lake Ohrid, in North Macedonia, a short way from the small town of Vevčani, and the point lies in a rolling country of orchards, beech woods and pastures just above the lake. The hills here belong to the Jablanica range, which forms a rugged wall between Macedonia and Albania, and the sound of cowbells and the smell of woodsmoke in the evenings are part of daily life. The village has a mixed population, and the local name in Albanian, Rrajcë, reminds you that this is a border region where Macedonian and Albanian cultures live side by side.
Read the complete Rrajca write-up.
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Rrajca is where the day begins. Next is Dlaboka Reka.
Few borderlands in the Balkans feel as folded and unhurried as the country around Peshkopi, in the Dibra mountains of north-eastern Albania. Across the frontier the same people are Macedonia's Dlaboka Reka, the Deep River, and the double name tells you the story: a Slavic and Albanian valley land cut through by a political line that locals still cross for weddings and markets. The Black Drin runs through the region, the great peaks of the Korab range stand along the border, and Mount Korab itself, at 2,764 metres, is the highest in both Albania and North Macedonia.
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Dlaboka Reka comes up 76 km in. Next is Church of the Virgin of Leviša.
In the middle of Prizren's old town, behind a wall and a fence, stands a brick-and-stone church whose bell tower rises above the rooftops. This is the Church of the Virgin of Leviša, Bogorodica Ljeviška in Serbian, one of the most important medieval monuments in the Balkans. It was rebuilt in the early fourteenth century under the Serbian king Milutin on the site of an older church, and its interior was covered with frescoes that are among the finest of their time.
Read the complete Church of the Virgin of Leviša write-up.
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153 km in you reach Church of the Virgin of Leviša. Next is back through Dlaboka Reka.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dlaboka Reka write-up.
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back through Dlaboka Reka, late in the day. Next is Rrajca.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Rrajca write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Rrajca. That is the ride.
Rrajca → Dlaboka Reka is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Dlaboka Reka → Church of the Virgin of Leviša is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Church of the Virgin of Leviša → back through Dlaboka Reka is 67 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Dlaboka Reka → Rrajca is 85 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.