CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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170 km from Amman to Amman, about 2 h 51 of riding. On the way it passes Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”, Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan, back through Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan and back through Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”. It crosses from Jordan into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 51 km this is Jordan Dead Sea Highway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
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 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” comes up 17 km in.
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At least 39 km in you reach Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”. Next is Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan.
Jericho is one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns on earth, and at Tell es-Sultan, on its northern edge, archaeologists have dug down through layers of settlement more than ten thousand years old. Among the finds is a great stone tower, built in the Neolithic, around eleven thousand years ago, long before writing, metal or the wheel, which is often called the oldest such tower in the world. The tell, with its trenches and mud brick walls, was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2023.
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Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan, about halfway.
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Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan sits at 68 km, about halfway. Next is back through Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan.
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back through Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan comes up 84 km in. Next is back through Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”.
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101 km in you reach back through Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”.
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back through Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan”, late in the day. Next is Amman.
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Read the complete Amman write-up.
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The route ends here after 170 km.
Amman → Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” → Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan → back through Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Baptism Site “Bethany Beyond the Jordan” → Amman is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.