Why this ride
A 69 km round trip from Erriadh - roughly 2 h 09 in the saddle. It goes by way of Mosquée Sidi Yeti, Mosquée Imghar and back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée Ben Biene and Mosquée Imghar
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 69 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 09
- 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 Ben Biene
In the south-west of Djerba, between Erriadh and the pottery village of Guellala, the island's farmland is at its most traditional, and the mosque of Ben Biene sits among it. This is the part of the island where the compounds stand furthest apart, each one an island of white wall and green trees in the middle of a field, and where the lanes are quiet enough for a rider to hear the pigeons and the wind in the palms.
Read the complete Mosquée Ben Biene write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Ben Biene is where the day begins. Next is Mosquée Sidi Yeti.
2. Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Djerba is the sort of island where you can ride for an hour and never see anything higher than a date palm. The mosque of Sidi Yati sits on the flat interior, a short run from Erriadh, which is the nearest proper town, with Midoun and the capital Houmt Souk a little further out. Everything here is low, white and thick-walled, and the mosques follow the same rule: buttressed, squat, almost fortress-like, with small windows and none of the soaring minarets you might expect from the mainland.
Read the complete Mosquée Sidi Yeti write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Sidi Yeti comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mosquée Imghar.
3. Mosquée Imghar
Djerba's mosques look like small fortresses, which is more or less what they once were. Imghar, in the interior of the island, is one of the group of Ibadi mosques whose whitewashed walls, thick buttresses and low domes give them the air of a farmhouse that has been trained for war. Ibadism is a branch of Islam that predates the Sunni-Shia split, and it survives today mainly in Oman, parts of North Africa and here on Djerba, where it has shaped the island's culture for over a thousand years.
Read the complete Mosquée Imghar write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 33 km into the recorded legs you reach Mosquée Imghar. Next is back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti.
4. back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Sidi Yeti write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti, late in the day. Next is Mosquée Ben Biene.
5. Mosquée Ben Biene
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Ben Biene write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mosquée Ben Biene. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée Ben Biene to Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Mosquée Ben Biene → Mosquée Sidi Yeti is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Sidi Yeti to Mosquée Imghar
Mosquée Sidi Yeti → Mosquée Imghar is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Imghar to back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Mosquée Imghar → back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti to Mosquée Ben Biene
back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti → Mosquée Ben Biene is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.