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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463 km from Al Buraymī to Al Buraymī, about 6 h 32 of riding. On the way it passes Faya Palaeolandscape, Wadi Wurayah and back through Faya Palaeolandscape. It crosses from Oman into United Arab Emirates - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Five thousand years ago, people on the edge of the Arabian desert built beehive-shaped stone tombs on the ridge of Jebel Hafit, and the oasis town below them has been continuously lived in ever since. Hili is part of the Cultural Sites of Al Ain, and the park holds a grave of the Umm an-Nar culture, the Hili Grand Tomb, built of precisely cut stone with carved reliefs of human and animal figures on its entrance. Traces of a Bronze Age settlement, with circular towers and wells, add to the picture of a society that had learned to farm in a dry land through the falaj, the underground channels that bring water from the mountains.
Read the complete Hili Archaeological Park write-up.
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Hili Archaeological Park is where the day begins. Next is Faya Palaeolandscape.
Sharjah's interior is a world of red dunes, gravel plains and jagged limestone ridges, and in the middle of it, near the town of Mleiha, the hill of Jebel Faya holds one of the most important records of early human presence outside Africa. Excavations in rock shelters at the foot of the mountain have revealed stone tools spanning many tens of thousands of years, suggesting that early modern humans were present in Arabia far earlier than once thought, during periods when the climate was wetter and the desert greener. The Faya Palaeolandscape was inscribed on the UNESCO list in 2025, recognising its significance for understanding human dispersal out of Africa.
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Faya Palaeolandscape comes up about 105 km into the recorded legs. Next is Wadi Wurayah.
Wadi Wurayah lies in the Hajar mountains on the east coast of the Emirates, in the narrow strip of Fujairah that reaches the Gulf of Oman, and it is one of the few places in the country where water stays on the surface all year. A stream runs through the gorge, feeding pools and small falls beneath tall, folded cliffs of limestone and ophiolite, rock that was once part of the ocean floor and was pushed up onto the land when plates collided. It was the first mountain protected area in the Emirates and is now a national park. Fish live in the pools, and the rarer animals include the Arabian tahr, a shy mountain goat that few visitors ever see.
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about 232 km into the recorded legs you reach Wadi Wurayah. Next is back through Faya Palaeolandscape.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Faya Palaeolandscape write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Faya Palaeolandscape, late in the day. Next is Hili Archaeological Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hili Archaeological Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Hili Archaeological Park. That is the ride.
Hili Archaeological Park → Faya Palaeolandscape is 105 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Faya Palaeolandscape → Wadi Wurayah is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Wadi Wurayah → back through Faya Palaeolandscape is 118 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Faya Palaeolandscape → Hili Archaeological Park is 113 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.