Why this ride
A 50 km round trip from Al Muharraq - roughly 44 min in the saddle. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Hayr Shtayyah and Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 50 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 44 min
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Siyadi House
Muharraq was Bahrain's capital before Manama took over, and it is still the island's most atmospheric old town, a tangle of narrow lanes, coral-stone houses and wind towers beside a shallow sea. Siyadi House belongs to a group of merchant houses built when pearls made Bahrain rich, and it stands in the middle of the Pearling Path, a UNESCO-listed route through the old town that traces the pearl trade from the oyster beds to the merchants' counting rooms. Carved wooden doors, plaster work and a tall wind tower that once caught the breeze are the signature of the house.
Read the complete Siyadi House write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 0 km into the recorded legs you reach Siyadi House. Next is Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field.
2. Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field
Flat, pale and apparently empty, the central plain of Bahrain hides one of the oldest cemeteries on earth. Some four thousand years ago the island of Dilmun, as it was known to the Sumerians, buried its dead under thousands upon thousands of low stone mounds, and in places like Madinat Hamad and A'ali the mounds still stand in dense, grey fields. At one time there may have been several hundred thousand of them, which would have made Dilmun a famous necropolis in its day, and many have since been flattened by roads, housing and quarrying.
Read the complete Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field, about halfway. Next is back through Siyadi House.
3. back through Siyadi House
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Siyadi House write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Siyadi House sits at 189 km, about halfway. Next is back through Hayr Bū ‘Amāmah.
Leg by leg
Siyadi House to Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field
Siyadi House → Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field to back through Siyadi House
Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field → back through Siyadi House is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.