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 Haifa it runs 329 km to Haifa; allow about 5 h 24 of riding. The stops in between: Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of, Sebastia, White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme and back through Sebastia. It crosses from Israel into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Mount Carmel rises straight from the Mediterranean, and Haifa climbs its slope in tiers, the port at the bottom, the German Colony halfway up, and the leafy residential districts along the crest. On the hillside stands the golden-domed Shrine of the Báb, surrounded by terraced gardens of nineteen levels, the best-known sight in the city and the centre of the Bahá'í faith. The cemetery on Carmel, in quieter gardens nearby, holds the graves of members of the family of Bahá'u'lláh, and is a place of stillness among cypress and lawn. The Bahá'í holy places in Haifa and western Galilee are listed by UNESCO.
Read the complete Haifa Bahá’í Cemetery write-up.
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Haifa Bahá’í Cemetery is where the day begins. Next is Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
In the second century AD, after the failed revolts against Rome, the centre of Jewish life moved to Galilee, and the Sanhedrin, the supreme rabbinical council, settled for a time at Bet She'arim, on a hill at the western edge of the Jezreel valley. Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi, the patriarch who compiled the Mishnah, the first great codification of Jewish law, lived here, and when he was buried in the necropolis, Jews from all over the diaspora wanted to be buried near him. The result is a vast network of catacombs carved into the soft limestone, listed by UNESCO in 2015.
Read the complete Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of write-up.
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Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Read the complete Sebastia write-up.
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about 102 km into the recorded legs you reach Sebastia. Next is White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme.
White walls, rounded balconies, ribbon windows and flat roofs: walking through central Tel Aviv you are surrounded by one of the largest collections of buildings in the International Style anywhere in the world. Several thousand were built in the 1930s and 1940s, many by architects who had trained in Europe, some at the Bauhaus, and who adapted the modernist ideas to the Mediterranean climate with balconies for shade and raised ground floors for air. The White City, as it is called, became a World Heritage Site in 2003. The plan of the city itself was drawn up by the Scottish urbanist Patrick Geddes in the 1920s, with tree lined boulevards and green squares.
Read the complete White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme write-up.
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White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme, about halfway. Next is back through Sebastia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sebastia write-up.
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back through Sebastia sits at 203 km, about halfway. Next is back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of comes up about 304 km into the recorded legs. Next is Haifa Bahá’í Cemetery.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Haifa Bahá’í Cemetery write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Haifa Bahá’í Cemetery closes the day.
Haifa Bahá’í Cemetery → Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → Sebastia is 77 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sebastia → White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme → back through Sebastia is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sebastia → back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → Haifa Bahá’í Cemetery is 24 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.