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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381 km from Ouangolodougou to Ouangolodougou, about 9 h 51 of riding. The stops in between: Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor, Mosquée de Kouto and back through Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
The mosque at Kaouara looks as though it has grown from the earth, and in a sense it has. It is one of a group of Sudanese-style mosques in northern Côte d'Ivoire, built of mud brick over timber frames, with tapering buttresses and wooden beams that stick out of the walls like quills. These beams serve as permanent scaffolding, which allows the community to climb up each year and replaster the surface with fresh mud. UNESCO added the group to the World Heritage list in 2021, recognising a building tradition that came down the trade routes from the old Mali Empire.
Read the complete Mosquée de Kaouara write-up.
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Mosquée de Kaouara is where the day begins. Next is Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor.
In the north of Côte d'Ivoire, where the forest gives way to savanna, the villages are built of mud and every mosque looks like a sculpture grown out of the ground. They belong to the Sudanese style, a tradition from the Sahel that spread south along trade routes carried by Dyula merchants, and UNESCO listed several of them in 2021. The mosques of Kaouara, Kouto, Nambira, Tengrela and others are the survivors of that tradition in this country.
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Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor comes up about 107 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mosquée de Kouto.
Kouto is a small town in the far north of Côte d'Ivoire, close to the borders with Mali and Burkina Faso, and its mosque is one of the best-known of the Sudanese-style buildings of the region. Mud-brick walls rise in battered buttresses, each topped by a small pinnacle, and timber beams project from the surface like the quills of a hedgehog. Seen across a field in the morning light, it looks as though it grew there.
Read the complete Mosquée de Kouto write-up.
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about 190 km into the recorded legs you reach Mosquée de Kouto. Next is back through Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor, late in the day. Next is Mosquée de Kaouara.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée de Kaouara write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mosquée de Kaouara. That is the ride.
Mosquée de Kaouara → Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor is 107 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor → Mosquée de Kouto is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mosquée de Kouto → back through Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor → Mosquée de Kaouara is 108 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.