Why this ride
A 73 km round trip from Houmt El Souk - roughly 1 h 32 in the saddle. The stops in between: Mosquée Medrajen, Mosquée Louta and back through Mosquée Medrajen. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée Abou Messouer and Mosquée Louta
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 73 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 32
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Mosquée Abou Messouer
Abou Messouer sits closer to Houmt Souk than most of the island's mosques, in a landscape of small farms and walled gardens, and it is a handy place to understand what makes a Djerban mosque different. The building is a compact block of white plaster, with the typical heavy buttresses, a small dome over the prayer hall and an outdoor space where people gather. The old Ibadi mosques were not only places of prayer but community centres, courts and schools, and some still hold a small Koranic school for children.
Read the complete Mosquée Abou Messouer write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Abou Messouer is where the day begins. Next is Mosquée Medrajen.
2. Mosquée Medrajen
The east of Djerba is the island's holiday coast, with long beaches, a line of big hotels and the busy market town of Midoun just inland, but the older island is not far behind. The Mosque of Medrajen, in the countryside between Midoun and the sea, belongs to the group of fortified Ibadi mosques that dot the interior, and it reminds visitors that the island was farmland and olive groves long before it was a resort.
Read the complete Mosquée Medrajen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Medrajen comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mosquée Louta.
3. Mosquée Louta
In the central and southern parts of the island, among olive groves and sandy lanes, stand small whitewashed mosques of the Ibadi tradition, with thick walls, simple domes and sometimes a short minaret and an outer stair. Some were built as places of refuge, with storerooms and wells inside, to serve scattered communities in times of raids, and others as neighbourhood mosques for a cluster of farms. Together they are among the features for which the island of Djerba was added to the UNESCO list in 2023.
Read the complete Mosquée Louta write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 37 km into the recorded legs you reach Mosquée Louta. Next is back through Mosquée Medrajen.
4. back through Mosquée Medrajen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Medrajen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mosquée Medrajen, late in the day. Next is Mosquée Abou Messouer.
5. Mosquée Abou Messouer
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Abou Messouer write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mosquée Abou Messouer. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée Abou Messouer to Mosquée Medrajen
Mosquée Abou Messouer → Mosquée Medrajen is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Medrajen to Mosquée Louta
Mosquée Medrajen → Mosquée Louta is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Louta to back through Mosquée Medrajen
Mosquée Louta → back through Mosquée Medrajen is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Medrajen to Mosquée Abou Messouer
back through Mosquée Medrajen → Mosquée Abou Messouer is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.