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 364 km round trip from Kouto - roughly 10 h 26 in the saddle. The stops in between: Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor, Mosquée de Tengréla and back through Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Mosquée de Kouto 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.
Read the complete Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor write-up.
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Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mosquée de Tengréla.
Tengréla sits in the far north of Côte d'Ivoire, only a few kilometers from the border with Mali, in a landscape of dry savanna, cashew orchards and cotton fields. The town is old, a trading post on the caravan routes that linked the Sahel with the forest, and its mosque is one of the best examples of a particular style of mud architecture found across West Africa, known as Sudanese. UNESCO listed a group of such mosques in northern Côte d'Ivoire in 2021.
Read the complete Mosquée de Tengréla write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 182 km into the recorded legs you reach Mosquée de Tengréla. 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 Kouto.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée de Kouto write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mosquée de Kouto. That is the ride.
Mosquée de Kouto → Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor → Mosquée de Tengréla is 99 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mosquée de Tengréla → back through Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor is 99 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 Kouto is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.