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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A 103 km round trip from Madīnat Ḩamad - roughly 1 h 28 in the saddle. On the way it passes Al-Alawi House, Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field and back through Al-Alawi House. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
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Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field is where the day begins. Next is Al-Alawi House.
Muharraq's most famous export after pearls is probably football, and the Al-Alawi house stands in a quarter where every wall seems to have a team scarf hanging from it. The Muharraq club is one of the most successful in the country, with a loyal following, and on match days the cafés and lanes of the old town are noisy with argument and song. The people who live in the old merchant houses today are often the grandchildren of men who dived for pearls or traded them, and the town keeps a stubborn local identity separate from Manama, the capital across the water.
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Al-Alawi House comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hayr Shtayyah.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Hayr Shtayyah sits at 153 km, about halfway. Next is back through Al-Alawi House.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Al-Alawi House write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Al-Alawi House comes up about 76 km into the recorded legs. Next is Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field closes the day.
Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field → Al-Alawi House is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Al-Alawi House → Back to Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Al-Alawi House → Madinat Hamad 2 Burial Mound Field is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.