Why this ride
A 107 km round trip from Midoun - roughly 2 h 38 in the saddle. It goes by way of Mosquée Sidi Yeti, Zone Côtière inhabitée and back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée Esselaouti and Zone Côtière inhabitée
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 107 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 2 h 38
- 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 Esselaouti
The east side of Djerba is the tourist side, with beaches, hotels and golf, but the road to this mosque runs a little inland from the sand, among farms and small villages, and it shows the older island that the resorts mostly hide. The nearest real town is Midoun, about five kilometres away, the second market centre of the island, with a lively weekly market where farmers sell fruit, spices, textiles and handmade pottery. Houmt Souk, the capital, is more than ten kilometres to the north-west.
Read the complete Mosquée Esselaouti write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Esselaouti 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 27 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zone Côtière inhabitée.
3. Zone Côtière inhabitée
Most of Djerba is cultivated, and then the cultivation stops. On the island's northern shore, where the olive groves and palm gardens run out, a strip of shallow sea, salt flat, sand and scrub stretches along the coast with hardly a building on it, and this is the uninhabited coastal zone that the island's heritage listing includes in its protected landscape. In 2023, UNESCO recognised Djerba for the way its people shaped a territory without rivers or springs, and the empty shore is part of that story, because it shows what the settlers started with and what they chose to leave alone.
Read the complete Zone Côtière inhabitée write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 54 km into the recorded legs you reach Zone Côtière inhabitée. 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 Esselaouti.
5. Mosquée Esselaouti
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Esselaouti write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mosquée Esselaouti. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée Esselaouti to Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Mosquée Esselaouti → Mosquée Sidi Yeti is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Sidi Yeti to Zone Côtière inhabitée
Mosquée Sidi Yeti → Zone Côtière inhabitée is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone Côtière inhabitée to back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Zone Côtière inhabitée → back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti to Mosquée Esselaouti
back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti → Mosquée Esselaouti is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.