CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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237 km from Tel Aviv to Tel Aviv, about 3 h 40 of riding. On the way it passes Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud, Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativit, back through Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativit and back through Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud. It crosses from Israel into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules.
41 km on Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud → Birthplace of Jesus: Chur.
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 Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud.
Beneath the low hills of the Judean lowlands, the Shephelah, lies a city of caves. Maresha was an important town of the Iron Age and the Hellenistic period, and its inhabitants carved thousands of chambers into the soft chalk beneath their houses: cisterns, olive presses, stables, quarries, burial caves and columbaria, rooms with hundreds of niches, probably used for raising pigeons. Nearby Bet Guvrin, known to the Romans as Eleutheropolis, became a major city in later centuries. The national park and its caves were listed by UNESCO in 2014 as a microcosm of the land of the caves.
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Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud comes up 29 km in. Next is Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud.
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59 km in you reach Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud. Next is Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativit.
To enter the Church of the Nativity, you have to bow. The main door into the basilica was made smaller over the centuries, probably to stop people riding in on horseback, and the low opening is known as the Door of Humility. Inside, the church built by Justinian in the sixth century over an earlier fourth century basilica of Constantine is one of the oldest functioning churches in the world, and beneath its altar a stair leads down to the Grotto of the Nativity, where a silver star marks the place where tradition says Jesus was born. The church and the pilgrimage route through Bethlehem became a World Heritage Site in 2012.
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Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativit, about halfway.
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Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativit sits at 117 km, about halfway. Next is back through Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativit.
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back through Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativit comes up 146 km in. Next is back through Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud.
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176 km in you reach back through Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud. Next is back through Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud.
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back through Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud, late in the day. Next is Tel Aviv.
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The route ends here after 237 km.
Tel Aviv → Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud → Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativit is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativit → back through Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Caves of Maresha and Bet-Guvrin in the Jud → Tel Aviv is 75 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.