Why this ride
From Dubai it runs 147 km to Dubai; allow about 2 h 03 of riding. It goes by way of Faya Palaeolandscape and back through Faya Palaeolandscape.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Dubai afternoon · Faya Palaeolandscape
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 147 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 03
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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: producer-declared routed record.
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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Dubai
Dubai is a city that grew from a creek. For most of its history, it was a small trading and pearl-diving town on a tidal inlet, with merchants' houses behind wind towers, and the old quarters of Al Fahidi and Deira still show the low coral-and-gypsum buildings, with narrow lanes, where abras, the little wooden ferries, carry people across the water for a dirham or so. Then oil money and an extraordinary appetite for building transformed it, and today the skyline includes the Burj Khalifa, which at over 800 metres is the tallest structure ever built.
Read the complete Dubai write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Dubai is where the day begins. Next is Faya Palaeolandscape.
2. Faya Palaeolandscape
Sharjah's interior is a world of red dunes, gravel plains and jagged limestone ridges, and in the middle of it, near the town of Mleiha, the hill of Jebel Faya holds one of the most important records of early human presence outside Africa. Excavations in rock shelters at the foot of the mountain have revealed stone tools spanning many tens of thousands of years, suggesting that early modern humans were present in Arabia far earlier than once thought, during periods when the climate was wetter and the desert greener. The Faya Palaeolandscape was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2025, recognising its significance for understanding human dispersal out of Africa.
Read the complete Faya Palaeolandscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
Faya Palaeolandscape comes up 38 km in. Next is Faya Palaeolandscape.
3. Faya Palaeolandscape
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Faya Palaeolandscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
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Planning note
75 km in you reach Faya Palaeolandscape. Next is back through Faya Palaeolandscape.
4. back through Faya Palaeolandscape
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Faya Palaeolandscape write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Faya Palaeolandscape, late in the day. Next is Dubai.
5. Dubai
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Dubai write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Dubai. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Dubai to Faya Palaeolandscape
Dubai → Faya Palaeolandscape is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Faya Palaeolandscape to Dubai
back through Faya Palaeolandscape → Dubai is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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