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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Madīnat ‘Īsá it runs 99 km to Madīnat ‘Īsá; allow about 1 h 24 of riding. It goes by way of Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field, Bū Māhir Seashore and back through Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field. It keeps close to the shore for long stretches.
Bahrain is a small island, but it has been important for a very long time. Under the name Dilmun, it was a trading centre of the Bronze Age, linking Mesopotamia with the Indus valley, and the fresh water that bubbles up from beneath the seabed made it a stop for ships. Janabiyah lies on the western side of the main island, near the coast road, a village among low, flat land where date palms, farms and new housing meet the edge of the desert.
Read the complete Janabiyah write-up.
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Janabiyah is where the day begins. Next is Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field.
Bahrain was once covered with burial mounds. Over thousands of years, between roughly 2200 BC and the early centuries AD, the people of Dilmun, an ancient civilisation that controlled trade in the Gulf between Mesopotamia and the Indus valley, built tens of thousands of tombs across the northern part of the island. Many have been lost to modern development, but some fields survive, and in 2019 a selection of them, including the Madinat Hamad mound fields, was inscribed as the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Dilmun Burial Mounds.
Read the complete Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field write-up.
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Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field comes up about 20 km into the recorded legs. Next is Bū Māhir Seashore.
Bahrain was once a pearl island, and its fortune depended on a harvest that took place under water. For centuries before oil, the men of Muharraq sailed out into the Gulf in the summer months to dive for oysters, going down on a single breath with a nose clip and a stone to carry them to the bottom, and bringing up baskets of shells in the hope of finding a pearl. The Bahraini pearls were famous, and their trade supported merchants, boat owners and whole districts. In the 1930s the Japanese invented cultured pearls, and the market collapsed, which is partly why Bahrain was so ready for oil.
Read the complete Bū Māhir Seashore write-up.
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about 49 km into the recorded legs you reach Bū Māhir Seashore. Next is back through Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field, late in the day. Next is Janabiyah.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Janabiyah write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Janabiyah. That is the ride.
Janabiyah → Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field → Bū Māhir Seashore is 29 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Bū Māhir Seashore → back through Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field is 31 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Madinat Hamad 3 Burial Mound Field → Janabiyah is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.