Why this ride
307 km from M’Bengué to M’Bengué, about 7 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes Mosquée de Kouto, Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’ and back through Mosquée de Kouto. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor and Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 307 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 7 h 39
- 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 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor is where the day begins. Next is Mosquée de Kouto.
2. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée de Kouto comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’.
3. Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’
Across the savanna of northern Côte d'Ivoire stands a small family of mud mosques that look as if they were grown rather than built. Eight of them were inscribed together by UNESCO in 2021 as the Sudanese style mosques of the north, among them the mosques of Kong, Kawara, Sorobango, Samatiguila, Nambira and Tengréla. They belong to an architectural tradition that came south with Mande traders and clerics along the old caravan routes from the Niger bend, and that took root in the cotton and kola country between the Sahel and the forest.
Read the complete Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’ write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’. Next is back through Mosquée de Kouto.
4. back through Mosquée de Kouto
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée de Kouto write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mosquée de Kouto, late in the day. Next is Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor.
5. 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor to Mosquée de Kouto
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 to Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’
Mosquée de Kouto → Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’ is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’ to back through Mosquée de Kouto
Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’ → back through Mosquée de Kouto is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mosquée de Kouto to Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor
back through Mosquée de Kouto → Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.