Komovi

ANDRIJEVICA - SEOCE - (7km) AN01 900 GUNJAJE SEOCA 850

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750 ASFALT / ASPHALT (7km)

Visina / Altitude (m) Visina 700 EVERYTRAIL.COM 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Rastojanje / Distance (km) Ukupni uspon / Total Climb 190m 7 Route AN 01 Andrijevica – Seoce – Andrijevica

Seoce

new distances, our nose full of cabin there is a fly-fishing area. sweet smells, the excitement of Here we may cast whatever discovery, the feeling that we are we have readily available (our truly alive… Whenever a road impressions over the shoulder, a or a trail gives us something like hook into the water...), and start this, it is clear we have not been outwitting the trout. wrong for taking that way. Just after the bridge, at the en- Rolling along the rim of Balj trance to Andrijevica we will go Hill, 3.3km from the start we along a short section of macad- reach the highest point of the am (300m). Then we get onto the tour – 870m. Slightly later we Andrijevica– road and will find ourselves at the junction turn right towards the town cen- at which we should turn a sharp tre. The Most Bandovića Motel & left and downhill (the other Restaurant is located nearby. asphalt leads straight on, towards About a kilometre before the the nearby hamlet). park and hotel in the centre Soon we descend back to the where we will also end our tour, valley, go past the Guberinić we go past Knjaževac Park (on memorial drinking fountain and the right) in which there are before the bridge over the River monuments from the First and we reach Ribarski dom (the the Second World Wars as well Fishermen’s House): a lovely as a botanical garden with over new log cabin situated above the thirty different plants (sequoia, river, on the right near the road, Serbian spruce, yew and others). offers lodging as well. The lovely Church of St Michael Three kilometres both upstream the Archangel is also situated and downstream from the log there. ANDRIJEVICA - PRISOJE - TREŠNJEVO (16km) AN02 1100 POVRŠE 1050 1000 RAKOVAC 950 PRISOJE 900 PUT / ROAD 850 BERANE - ANDRIJEVICA 800 ASFALT / ASPHALT (15km) 750 MAKADAM / GRAVEL (1km) EVERYTRAIL.COM Visina / Altitude (m) Visina 700 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rastojanje / Distance (km) Ukupni uspon / Total Climb 370m

TREŠNJEVIK - RUDO BRDO (43,5km) AN03 1800 1700 RUDO BRDO 1600 TREŠNJEVIK GRADIŠNICA 1500 LISA 1400 1300 POVRŠE 1200 1100 ASFALT / ASPHALT (30km) 1000 900 MAKADAM / GRAVEL (7km) PRISOJE 800 ZEMLJANI PUT / DIRT ROAD (6,5km)

Visina / Altitude (m) Visina 700 EVERYTRAIL.COM 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 Rastojanje / Distance (km) Ukupni uspon / Total Climb 1250m

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Bačko brdo

Lisa

8.1km). Meadows and interest- On the final section of the de- ing relief flying freely into the scent to Krivi Do (around 800m) distance are the basic contents of the road turns into a very steep, the “menu” we enjoy here. Soon bumpy trail which is occasion- it will become clear: in such areas ally cut by deep gullies. Those as these we are in love with the who have an ambition to ride mountain bike, and all efforts to this way on their return as well reach them are forgotten once we should closely observe the hard- sail along them. It refreshes but est sections and plan their tactics it does not fatten one up, totally to conquer the climb waiting for organic and healthy, optimal in them. terms of energy – such is the ride For the final few hundred metres on the first waves of Mt. . to Krivi Do mountain hut (eleva-

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going there to look it closely, road, whereas at the beginning maybe to take a nap or have of the 27th kilometre we join lunch by the water. But be quiet the asphalt road which leads – if we scare it… along Gradišnica Valley. When And slightly further on (at there is enough water, Veški 21.7km) there is a secluded potočić (a brook) on the final katun which on the left above kilometre before the asphalt, the road offers its furniture: runs partly by the road and wooden tables and benches, partly over it, so in certain and a canopy charmingly put places we will have an interest- together in a similar style. So ing experience of riding over a even if nobody is there we will carpet of water. anyway take a nice rest break The section through Gradišnica there, and if with a little bit is great: a new asphalt road on of luck we find the kind hosts which we will rarely meet any there, we will not leave the vehicle, an easy descent, ir- place without refreshments. resistible surroundings... What From this katun we descent could one wish for on a lovely along the “spectators area” of day and at the end of an excit- the amphitheatre, no doubt ing tour, if not such magical, facing towards some stage for pleasant relaxation? performances given by the About 1.8km after joining the mountain nymphs and elves asphalt we reach Zekova česma which must be somewhere here, (Zeko’s drinking fountain). but which we will not see: we There we reconnect with Route go through the dense forest AN 03, and then ride to Andri- of Rujište. The descent from jevica as described in the text Pobodenjak Peak to Gradišnica for that route. (Only some hun- Valley is around 7km long. dred metres after Zeko’s drink- At the beginning of the 24th ing fountain, on the right, is the kilometre from the start a dirt Mašović drinking fountain). road turns into a macadam

LISA - KRIVI DO - ANDRIJEVICA (29km) AN04 1900 POBODENJAK 1800 BAČ BAČ 1700 1600 KRIVI DO PATKOVICA 1500 KRŠNJATA GLAVA 1400 ASFALT / ASPHALT (2km) 1300 MAKADAM / GRAVEL (7km) ZEMLJANI PUT / DIRT ROAD (20km) GRADIŠNICA Visina / Altitude (m) Visina 1200 EVERYTRAIL.COM 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 Rastojanje / Distance (km) Ukupni uspon / Total Climb 800m

23 tury a few hundred metres away kilometre we reach a place at (reconstruction is in progress). which a concrete bridge crosses This place is called Namastir. over the River Perućica (at Four hundred metres further on, 12.2km). In the vicinity, the on the right of the road, there is a asphalt ends, but there is also a watermill dating from 1930 which road sign claiming that we are still operates. Here we will see in – Japan. And it is written in some interesting cliffs as well – a Japanese as well. Those who make new motif for our photographs. an effort to start their tour early At 9.2km we pass through Kon- in the morning will get proof that juhe – a village which, judging by here they are really in the land of its centre, has seen better days, the rising sun. More precisely: in and had more inhabitants that it the village of the rising sun. The does now. yellow ball rolls over the distant After a gentle ascent at the 11th Mt. Hajla, and then it trembles

Košutiće

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Komovi - Štavna

along a lovely dirt road after a few on the high street, near the park kilometres we get on a bad-quali- and the hotel. With our eyes still ty asphalt surface in the hamlet of full of the Kom Mountains, their Gloštica (at 39.9km). ridges, pastures and horizons it The road soon improves, and will be difficult for us to gather there is still quite enough of the our wits and realise that, due to downhill section left, so we will the demands of everyday life, we ride the remaining few kilometres should store away somewhere all in a few seconds and land straight those things we have left behind into the centre of Andrijevica. in the heights above us. But, some That landing is quite sudden: important batteries have been almost up until the last second we recharged, and that “somewhere” are riding through a rural setting, where we will store away this then we enter a short labyrinth tour is a showcase of beautiful of buildings, and on exiting from memories :) there – suddenly, here we are

ANDRIJEVICA - KOMOVI - ANDRIJEVICA (42km) 1900 AN05 1800 MILANOVEC MILANOVEC 1700 1600 KOMOVI PEOVI 1500 1400 JAPAN EKO KATUN 1300 ŠTAVNA ZULEVO BRDO 1200 KONJUHE 1100 ASFALT / ASPHALT (16km) 1000 BOJOVIĆE 900 MAKADAM / GRAVEL (24km) 800 ZEMLJANI PUT, STAZA / DIRT ROAD, PATH (2km)

Visina / Altitude (m) Visina 700 EVERYTRAIL.COM 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 Rastojanje / Distance (km) Ukupni uspon / Total Climb 1420m

31 of us in the distance one can see elevation loss in relation to the the peaks above the Grebaja Val- point from which we start the ley of Karanfili Peak and Trojan descent (at the B-11 border stone) Peak. The left fork at this junction is 530m. is a grassy footpath which goes For fit cyclists, it will take about gently uphill, and we will follow an hour and a half to complete the right fork, which immedi- the section from the Kuti border ately goes downhill. On the steep watchtower to the saddle; others descent we will encounter a fan- should allow about an addi- tastic atmosphere of beech forest tional hour. The descent will take along which we will slide down (somewhat unusually) nearly the on a wonderful carpet made of same time, unless we are skilled leaves, so this section is definitely in off-road riding. All in all, de- one of the loveliest on this tour. pending on one’s fitness level and But one should always keep in skill, it takes between two and a mind that this carpet, in certain half and five hours, excluding a places so thick that it resembles a possible lunch break or a longer snowdrift, hides within itself dead rest break, to ride about 6km branches, stumps, stones and from the border watchtower to other obstacles which may cause the road to . us in an instant find ourselves ly- For Gusinje we will turn left ing on the ground. Therefore, for (the right fork goes towards the those who do not have sufficient border crossing located only a experience or a bike suitable for few hundred metres away). The these conditions it would be best asphalt gently descends and after to ride very slowly or to get off we pass the hamlets of Radončići the bike – even then this will be a and Derviševići, we will soon very nice experience. reach that little town. After passing along the edge of (Those who have enough time the spacious Lipovačka livada and the will to do it may want to (Lipovica Meadow) we will reach continue from Grnčar along the the first house in Bojovići, and second half of the easy macadam then, 22.6km from the start and route GU 01. The mileage will not at an elevation of 960m above be much greater, only in this case sea level, we join the asphalt road we will ride the next 3km along which leads from Gusinje towards a poor macadam road and a path the Grnčar border crossing. The through a field).

ANDRIJEVICA - KUTI - GUSINJE (29km) AN06 1900 1800 1600 1500 KUTI LIPOVICA 1300 DERVIŠEVIĆI 1200 BOJOVIĆE 1000 ASFALT / ASPHALT (23km) 800 MAKADAM, STAZA / GRAVEL, PATH (6km) EVERYTRAIL.COM Visina / Altitude (m) Visina 700 0 2 46 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 Rastojanje / Distance (km) Ukupni uspon / Total Climb 970m

ANDRIJEVICA - MURINO - PLAV (26km) AN07 1000 MOSTINE 950 900 MURINO 850 GRAČANICA

800 ASFALT / ASPHALT (26km) EVERYTRAIL.COM

Visina / Altitude (m) Visina 750 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 Rastojanje / Distance (km) Ukupni uspon / Total Climb 540m

Održivi regionalni razvoj regiona Bjelasice, Komova i Prokletija

Sustainable Regional Development of the Bjelasica, Komovi and Prokletije Region