CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Amman it runs 143 km to Amman; allow about 2 h 35 of riding. The stops in between: As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban, Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”, back through Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” and back through As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban.
This part of the ride is 30 km of Jordan Kings Highway.
Amman is the starting point of Jordan's King's Highway, the old road that runs south through the country to the Red Sea, and it is also a city worth a day of its own. It is built on a series of hills, once seven, and the oldest part is the Citadel, which holds the pillars of a Roman temple to Hercules, a Byzantine church and an Umayyad palace, all on the same ridge. The ancient name was Philadelphia, after the Ptolemaic king who rebuilt it, and before that Rabbath Ammon, the capital of the Ammonites. Down in the valley below, a large Roman theatre, carved into the hillside and seating around six thousand people, still stages concerts.
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Amman is where the day begins. Next is As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban.
As-Salt climbs three steep hills in the Balqa highlands north-west of Amman, a town of honey-coloured limestone houses with arched windows, terraced streets and long staircases. In the late Ottoman period, from the 1860s to the 1920s, it was the most important town in the region east of the Jordan, a trading hub where merchants from Nablus, Damascus and Beirut settled and built grand houses in a mix of local and European styles. Muslims and Christians lived side by side, sharing guesthouses and charitable traditions, and the town was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2021 as As-Salt, the Place of Tolerance and Urban Hospitality.
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As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban comes up 17 km in.
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34 km in you reach As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban. Next is Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”.
Down here you are well below sea level, close to four hundred metres under it, and the air shows it: thick, warm and heavy, with a mineral haze rising off the Dead Sea a few kilometres to the south. The baptism site known as Bethany Beyond the Jordan, Al-Maghtas in Arabic, lies on the east bank of the river Jordan, the place many Christians identify with the baptism of Jesus by John. Across a narrow, muddy channel of water stands Qasr al-Yahud on the western side, close to Jericho, and the two banks look at each other across one of the world's most heavily watched borders.
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Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”, about halfway.
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Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”.
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back through Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” comes up 85 km in. Next is back through As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban.
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102 km in you reach back through As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban.
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back through As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban, late in the day. Next is Amman.
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The route ends here after 143 km.
Amman → As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban → Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” → back through As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban is 38 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban → Amman is 30 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.