Blidinje Highland Road — Jablanica to Blidinje Lake

The Blidinje Highland Road is a short but exposed ride from the Neretva valley to one of Herzegovina’s strangest landscapes. From Jablanica, the hydro town on the lake below Prenj, the road climbs out of the valley through a sequence of karst benches to the Dugo polje highland field inside the Blidinje nature park — a wide, grassy karst plateau ringed by the walls of Čvrsnica and Vran, with the shallow glacial Blidinje lake at its centre and old summer-shepherding settlements around it. There is little traffic and less shelter: the plateau is open to wind, weather moves visibly across it, and services are sparse, so fuel and water are settled in Jablanica before the climb. The reward is a big-sky riding experience unlike the canyon and valley roads of the rest of the country.