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 Acre it runs 97 km to Acre; allow about 1 h 42 of riding. It goes by way of Persian Quarter, Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: and back through Persian Quarter. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Acre sits at the northern tip of Haifa Bay, on a small peninsula that has been a port since the Bronze Age, and the House of Abbud is one of the Ottoman-era buildings of its old town, in a maze of stone lanes about a kilometre from the walls.
Read the complete House of ‘Abbúd write-up.
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House of ‘Abbúd is where the day begins. Next is Persian Quarter.
Haifa climbs the northern slope of Mount Carmel in tiers, and halfway up, a golden dome catches the light above a staircase of gardens that tumbles all the way down to the old German Colony and the port. This is the Bahá'í World Centre, and the dome crowns the Shrine of the Báb, the founder figure of the Bahá'í faith, whose remains were brought here from Persia and interred on the mountainside. The nineteen terraces around it, with clipped lawns, gravel paths, cypresses and fountains, are among the most meticulously kept gardens anywhere, and together with the shrine of Bahá'u'lláh near Acre across the bay they form a UNESCO World Heritage site. The Persian connection runs through everything here, from the faith's origins in nineteenth-century Iran to the formal geometry of the planting.
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Persian Quarter comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:.
In the caves of Nahal Me'arot, on the western slope of Mount Carmel near the coast south of Haifa, people lived on and off for half a million years, and both Neanderthals and early modern humans left their bones here. The four caves, Tabun, Jamal, el-Wad and Skhul, contain one of the longest records of human evolution anywhere, and they were listed as a World Heritage Site in 2012. Tabun alone has layers spanning hundreds of thousands of years. The Natufian culture, among the first people to settle in villages before farming, also left traces in el-Wad.
Read the complete Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: write-up.
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about 48 km into the recorded legs you reach Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:. Next is back through Persian Quarter.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Persian Quarter write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Persian Quarter, late in the day. Next is House of ‘Abbúd.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete House of ‘Abbúd write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at House of ‘Abbúd. That is the ride.
House of ‘Abbúd → Persian Quarter is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Persian Quarter → Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: → back through Persian Quarter is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Persian Quarter → House of ‘Abbúd is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.