CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Bodrum it runs 1263 km to Bodrum; allow about 21 h 47 of riding. The stops in between: The Historic Centre, Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos, Pythagoreion of Samos and back through Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos. It crosses from Türkiye into Greece - carry ID and check the toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Bodrum sits on a peninsula on the south-west coast of Turkey, facing the Greek island of Kos across a short stretch of blue water, and its history is longer than its reputation as a holiday town suggests. In the ancient world it was Halicarnassus, a city of Caria, and the birthplace of Herodotus, who has been called the father of history. In the fourth century BC the local ruler Mausolus began a huge tomb for himself, finished after his death by his wife and sister Artemisia, and the structure became one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. The word mausoleum comes from his name. Earthquakes toppled it, and the Knights of Saint John, who took the site in the fifteenth century, used its stones to build the castle that now dominates the harbour.
Read the complete Bodrum write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Bodrum is where the day begins. Next is The Historic Centre.
Patmos is a small island, only about thirteen kilometres long, in the Dodecanese, and it is famous for one reason. Tradition holds that the apostle John was exiled here by the Roman authorities in the first century and received the visions recorded in the Book of Revelation in a cave on the slope below the town. The Cave of the Apocalypse, with its rock cleft where the voice of God was said to speak, is still a place of pilgrimage. Above it, the fortress-like Monastery of Saint John the Theologian was founded in 1088 by the monk Christodoulos, with a charter from the Byzantine emperor, and it rises over the white houses of Chora like a castle.
Read the complete The Historic Centre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The Historic Centre comes up 158 km in.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Historic Centre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
316 km in you reach The Historic Centre. Next is Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos.
Two things that the ancient Greeks did better than anyone are on show on this corner of Samos, and one of them is a tunnel. In the sixth century BC, the tyrant Polycrates ruled the island, and he commissioned an engineer from Megara, Eupalinos, to bring water to his capital through a mountain. The tunnel is about a kilometre long, and Eupalinos had his workers dig from both ends at once, meeting in the middle with an error of only a few metres, which is a stunning achievement for the time. Visitors can walk through a part of it today, in a hard hat, and the sloping channel for water still runs beside the walkway.
Read the complete Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos, about halfway. Next is Pythagoreion of Samos.
Pythagóreio is a small fishing harbour on the south-east coast of Samos, a Greek island that lies so close to Turkey that the strait between them is barely two kilometres wide at its narrowest. The village sits on the site of the ancient capital, which in the sixth century BC was one of the richest cities of the Aegean under the tyrant Polycrates. He built a great mole to protect the harbour, a temple of Hera that was among the largest of the Greek world, and a water tunnel that astonished the ancient world. The island was also the birthplace of Pythagoras, the philosopher and mathematician, and a statue of him stands on the waterfront.
Read the complete Pythagoreion of Samos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Pythagoreion of Samos sits at 632 km, about halfway. Next is back through Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos comes up 789 km in. Next is back through The Historic Centre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Historic Centre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
947 km in you reach back through The Historic Centre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Historic Centre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Historic Centre, late in the day. Next is Bodrum.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bodrum write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 1263 km.
Bodrum → The Historic Centre is 380 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Historic Centre → Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos is 252 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos → back through The Historic Centre is 252 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Historic Centre → Bodrum is 380 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.