CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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From Qobustan it runs 347 km to Qobustan; allow about 5 h 13 of riding. It goes by way of Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's, Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill, back through Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill and back through Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Gobustan is a rocky, windswept plateau about sixty kilometres south of Baku, where outcrops of limestone and sandstone rise out of a plain of dry grass, and the Caspian Sea glints on the horizon. Boyukdash, the Big Rock, is one of the boulders that make up this open-air gallery, and its sides are covered with carvings called petroglyphs made by people who lived and hunted here over thousands of years, some of them tens of thousands. UNESCO listed the area in 2007.
Read the complete Boyukdash mountain write-up.
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Boyukdash mountain is where the day begins. Next is Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's.
Baku is windy by name and by nature, and the old walled city on the Caspian shore has been catching the wind for about a thousand years. Inside the walls, known locally as Icherisheher, a maze of narrow stone lanes winds between mosques, caravanserais and houses with carved balconies. The Maiden Tower, a stout round tower of mysterious age and purpose, rises near the sea, and the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, built in the fifteenth century as the residence of the rulers of Shirvan, sits on the hill above. UNESCO listed the walled city and the palace together in 2000.
Read the complete Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's comes up about 63 km into the recorded legs. Next is Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill.
Gobustan is a stony, wind-scoured landscape of low hills and mesas south of Baku, near the shores of the Caspian Sea, and on its rocks, people carved images over thousands of years: hunters with bows, boats with rowers, dancers, wild cattle, deer and goats. More than six thousand petroglyphs have been recorded here, dating back as far as the end of the last ice age, and the Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape was listed by UNESCO in 2007.
Read the complete Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 116 km into the recorded legs you reach Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's, about halfway. Next is back through Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill sits at 247 km, about halfway. Next is back through Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's comes up about 285 km into the recorded legs. Next is Boyukdash mountain.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Boyukdash mountain write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Boyukdash mountain closes the day.
Boyukdash mountain → Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's is 63 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's → Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill → Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's → back through Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Jinghindagh mountain -Yazylytepe hill → back through Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's is 58 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Walled City of Baku with the Shirvanshah's → Boyukdash mountain is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.