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Bosnia and Herzegovina: Motorcycling from Karakaj to Umoljani

PD Tržič (Alpine Association Tržič) organized mountain bike expedition around Bjelašnica, so Nada and me decided to join them. We started yesterday (13159) and today we arrived to our destination after some nice on and off-road riding. Navigation systems (Google and Garmin) still have very big problems in this areas, especially on side roads. In Foča we also visited Nada's uncle and her godfather, who kindly invited us to a dinner.

 

Morning walk from Ulice to River Drina had two faces. Beautiful river and careless people.

After lunch we visited Srebrenica Genocide Memorial.

Both Garmin and Google wanted to take us over Drina River (border between BiH and Serbia) over the dam, therefore we needed to continue on this road.

Entering Republic of Serbia

Perućac lake was created by damming the Drina River and harnessing its flow to power the Bajina Bašta hydroelectric power station. It is also a reversible hydro-electric power plant, that pumps up the water 610 meters to Zaovine lake.

Drina river valley. On the left Republika Srpska, one of two entities in BiH and on the right Serbia.

Previously mentioned Zaovine Lake. It was created on the Beli Rzav river as a reservoir for the Bajina Bašta II reversible hydro power plant.

A little bit of off-road, thanks to navigation systems. According to some maps we were just on the border between BiH and Serbia.

Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge was completed in 1577 by the Ottoman court architect Mimar Sinan on the order of the Grand Vizier Mehmed Paša Sokolović. The bridge is widely known because of the book The Bridge on the Drina (1945) written by Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrić, Nobel Prize–winning author.

Will we ever learn?

Confluence of Drina and Lim

Drina

Karakaj - Zvornik - Srebrenica - Skelani - NP Tara - Mitrovac - Rajaci - Mokra gora - Višegrad - Foča - Tošići - Rakitnica - Umoljani