Why this ride
A 307 km round trip from Tengréla - roughly 7 h 40 in the saddle. It goes by way of Mosquée de Kouto, Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor and back through Mosquée de Kouto. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée de Tengréla and Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 307 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 7 h 40
- 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 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.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée de Tengréla 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 71 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor.
3. 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
about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor. 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 Tengréla.
5. Mosquée de Tengréla
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée de Tengréla 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 Tengréla. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée de Tengréla to Mosquée de Kouto
Mosquée de Tengréla → Mosquée de Kouto is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Mosquée de Kouto to Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor
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 to back through Mosquée de Kouto
Mosquée de Nambira ou Namboura missiri kor → back through Mosquée de Kouto is 83 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mosquée de Kouto to Mosquée de Tengréla
back through Mosquée de Kouto → Mosquée de Tengréla is 71 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.