Why this ride
From Erriadh it runs 76 km to Erriadh; allow about 1 h 56 of riding. On the way it passes Mosquée Sidi Yeti, Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine and back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée Berdaoui and Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 76 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 56
- 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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Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Mosquée Berdaoui
The mosques of Djerba are like nothing else in the Muslim world. They are low, white and plain, with thick buttressed walls, small windows and flat or domed roofs, and from a distance they look like fortresses, which is more or less what they were. Djerba is an island off the south of Tunisia, flat and hot, and over the centuries it was raided by pirates and attacked by the Spanish, so its mosques were built to protect worshippers and store supplies. Most belong to the Ibadi school of Islam, a small branch distinct from the Sunni and Shia, which has survived on Djerba and in a few other places in North Africa for over a thousand years.
Read the complete Mosquée Berdaoui write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Berdaoui 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 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine.
3. Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine
Khazroun, Sedghiene and Guecheine are the kinds of names that appear on a heritage dossier and nowhere else, and they refer to zones of the island's countryside that make up one part of the World Heritage listing. Djerba was inscribed by UNESCO in 2023 as a cultural landscape, and the list names several zones, each a patch of the traditional pattern in good condition.
Read the complete Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine 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 Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine. 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 Berdaoui.
5. Mosquée Berdaoui
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Berdaoui write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mosquée Berdaoui. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée Berdaoui to Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Mosquée Berdaoui → Mosquée Sidi Yeti is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Sidi Yeti to Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine
Mosquée Sidi Yeti → Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine to back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine → back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti to Mosquée Berdaoui
back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti → Mosquée Berdaoui is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.