CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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354 km from Tel Aviv to Tel Aviv, about 5 h 45 of riding. The stops in between: Sebastia, Area 1, Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines - Cult and back through Area 1. It crosses from Israel into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
Tel Aviv is a city that is barely more than a century old. It was founded in 1909 on the sand dunes north of the old port of Jaffa by a group of Jewish families, and it grew with astonishing speed. In the 1930s, architects who had trained in Germany and in the Bauhaus tradition built thousands of modernist apartment blocks, with white walls, curved balconies and small windows to keep out the sun, and the White City is now listed by UNESCO as a remarkable example of that style. Rothschild Boulevard, lined with trees and cafes, is the best place to see them.
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Tel Aviv 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 37 km in. Next is Sebastia.
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73 km in you reach Sebastia. Next is Area 1.
The hills south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem are older than most of the countries now claiming them, and the terraced slopes around Battir are among the best evidence. For centuries, perhaps for two thousand years, farmers here have built dry-stone terraces down the steep valley sides to grow olives, grapes, figs and vegetables, and the water that feeds them comes from springs and is shared out through channels according to a rota among local families. The system was recognised as a World Heritage landscape in 2014, under the title of the land of olives and vines in southern Jerusalem.
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Area 1, about halfway. Next is Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines - Cult.
Battir is the quiet village at the heart of this cultural landscape, in the hills southwest of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, where terraces of dry stone climb the slopes in layer after layer. They are planted with olives, vines, and the vegetables that Battir is famous for, especially a small, sweet kind of aubergine. UNESCO inscribed the area in 2014 as the Land of Olives and Vines, a cultural landscape of southern Jerusalem, because the terraces, the irrigation channels and the old watch-towers show an agricultural system that has worked for many centuries.
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Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines - Cult sits at 147 km, about halfway. Next is back through Area 1.
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back through Area 1 comes up 183 km in. Next is back through Sebastia.
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220 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 Tel Aviv.
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The route ends here after 354 km.
Tel Aviv → Sebastia is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sebastia → Area 1 is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Area 1 → Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines - Cult is 4 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Palestine: Land of Olives and Vines - Cult → back through Area 1 is 4 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Area 1 → back through Sebastia is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sebastia → Tel Aviv is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.