CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 450 km round trip from Jerusalem - roughly 7 h 08 in the saddle. On the way it passes Sebastia, As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban, back through As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban and back through Sebastia. It crosses from Palestinian Territories into Jordan - carry ID and check the toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
The ride follows Sebastia → As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban for 76 km.
Jerusalem sits on a ridge about seven hundred and fifty metres above the sea, and the air is cooler and drier than on the coast, with a light that turns the pale limestone of the buildings to gold at the end of the day. The Old City, enclosed by walls built by the Ottoman sultan Suleiman in the sixteenth century, is a dense maze of lanes, markets and domes, divided traditionally into four quarters, and sacred to Jews, Christians and Muslims. The Dome of the Rock gleams above the Temple Mount, the Western Wall stands at its foot, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre holds the places traditionally linked to the crucifixion and burial of Jesus.
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Jerusalem is where the day begins. Next is Sebastia.
Sebastia, Sabastiya in Arabic, is a Palestinian village on a hill north-west of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, surrounded by olive groves and terraced hillsides. It stands on the site of Samaria, the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the ninth and eighth centuries BC, later rebuilt by Herod the Great, who named it Sebaste in honour of the Emperor Augustus. The ruins on the hilltop above the village span a thousand years of history.
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Sebastia comes up 38 km in. Next is Sebastia.
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77 km in you reach Sebastia. 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, about halfway.
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As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban.
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back through As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban comes up 191 km in. Next is back through Sebastia.
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230 km in you reach back through Sebastia. Next is back through Sebastia.
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back through Sebastia, late in the day. Next is Jerusalem.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jerusalem write-up.
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The route ends here after 450 km.
Jerusalem → Sebastia is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sebastia → As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through As-Salt - The Place of Tolerance and Urban → back through Sebastia is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sebastia → Jerusalem is 76 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.