The route from:
Split - Kamesnsko (border) - Tomoslavgrad - (Skirting around the eastern edge of lake Jezero) to Kupres - Sipovo - Mrkonic Grad would be a brilliant days riding, lakes mountain roads, tunnels the lot!! :cheer:
I was out there for a couple of Tours, and would love to go back and have another look.
You can't really go very far wrong in terms of looking for military history either - it was and is everywhere...
Be very respectful of the history - remember, the language is NOT Serbo-Croatian, its Serbian when in Serbia, and Croatian when in Croatia - little things piss people off! There's some colloquial differences too, but few that a tourist would notice. This might not apply in the beach resorts of the Adriatic - but up country - it still counts, according to a couple of Bosnia-Serb and Croatian colleagues!
Most of the mine fields are clear - but they reckon it won't be totally clear until after 2020 at the earliest - they are well behind, and over 600 people have been killed since the war ended even now - including kids looking for bloody Pokemon
They move in snow, and wash away in downpours, and float about in rivers some of them too :pinch:
Do your homework - main routes will be fine, but if you're attempting trail riding off the beaten track, make sure you know what the warning signs are for the
Minsko Polje!
Also - unexploded ordnance (UXO) is a danger in some areas - know what the UXO and Mines look like. Locals will still pile them by the road, and wait for the UN teams to come along when they are in that area, to remove them. I still wouldn't walk in long grass out there - as it is an area where the locals clearly aren't going on a regular basis - and for several years - it was an obsession, utterly ingrained into me. As a Combat Medic routinely patrolling the routes in armoured ambulances - well - they aren't much fun.
Mine Signs look like this - in movies only!!:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cate ... erzegovina
Look for bottles on up turned sticks - or cans on upturned sticks, coloured tape or ribbons flying from tress, hedges, sticks etc.
If it doesn't look like the locals are going there on a daily basis - you shouldn't either.
Am very jealous of you - its a beautiful place, I can't wait to go back - the locals are lovely, avoid the home made Slivovic - it'll make you blind - and unless you bought it out of a shop - its almost certainly potato whisky and not Plum Brandy! :silly:
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