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: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
363 km from Konya to Konya, about 5 h 41 of riding. On the way it passes Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük, Eşrefoğlu Mosque and back through Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Konya lies on the dry central plateau of Anatolia, about a thousand metres above the sea, and it has been an important city for as long as anyone has kept records. The Seljuk Turks made it their capital in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and it became a centre of learning and Sufi mysticism, the home of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, the poet and teacher who is known in Turkey as Mevlana. After his death in 1273 his followers founded the Mevlevi order, whose members perform the whirling ceremony, the sema, in which dancers in tall felt hats and white skirts turn slowly with one palm raised and one lowered. His tomb, under a fluted dome covered in turquoise tiles, is the most visited shrine in the country, and the pilgrims who gather there at all hours give the city a quiet devotional tone.
Read the complete Konya write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Konya is where the day begins. Next is Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük.
Nine thousand years ago, people here lived in a town with no streets. Çatalhöyük is a pair of low mounds on the Konya plain, and what makes it famous is how its houses were packed together wall to wall, entered by ladders through the roof, with the dead buried under the floors and bulls' horns plastered into the walls. It is one of the earliest large settlements anywhere and has been a World Heritage site since 2012.
Read the complete Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük comes up 61 km in.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
122 km in you reach Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük. Next is Eşrefoğlu Mosque.
Eşrefoğlu Mosque, about halfway. Next is back through Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük sits at 244 km, about halfway.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük comes up 305 km in. Next is Konya.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Konya write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Konya closes the day.
Konya → Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük → Eşrefoğlu Mosque is 132 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Eşrefoğlu Mosque → back through Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük is 132 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Neolithic Site of Çatalhöyük → Konya is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.