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 Nahariyya it runs 276 km to Nahariyya; allow about 3 h 58 of riding. On the way it passes Tel Megiddo, White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme and back through Tel Megiddo. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
On the coastal plain of western Galilee, between Nahariya and Akko, a small garden known as Junayn is one of the Bahá'í holy places in Israel. Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, spent his final years in exile in this region in the late nineteenth century, after being banished by the Ottoman authorities from Persia and then from Baghdad, Istanbul and Edirne. Once his confinement in the prison-city of Akko was relaxed, he would visit gardens around the town, and this was one of them. The Bahá'í holy places in Haifa and western Galilee, including the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh at Bahjí and the terraced gardens on Mount Carmel, were listed by UNESCO in 2008. The gardens are tended with remarkable precision by Bahá'í volunteers from around the world, and the atmosphere is serene.
Read the complete Junayn Garden write-up.
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Junayn Garden is where the day begins. Next is Tel Megiddo.
From the top of Tel Megiddo, the whole of the Jezreel Valley spreads out below you, a green and gold checkerboard of fields stretching towards Mount Tabor and the hills of Galilee. You can see at once why so many armies fought here. The mound guarded the narrow pass where the ancient coastal road, the Via Maris, crossed from the Mediterranean plain into the valley, and anyone who held it controlled one of the great trade and military routes of the ancient world.
Read the complete Tel Megiddo write-up.
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Tel Megiddo comes up about 54 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 138 km into the recorded legs you reach White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme. Next is back through Tel Megiddo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tel Megiddo write-up.
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back through Tel Megiddo, late in the day. Next is Junayn Garden.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Junayn Garden write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Junayn Garden. That is the ride.
Junayn Garden → Tel Megiddo is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tel Megiddo → White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme → back through Tel Megiddo is 84 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tel Megiddo → Junayn Garden is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.