Why this ride
From Midoun it runs 73 km to Midoun; allow about 1 h 39 of riding. On the way it passes Mosquée Louta, Mosquée Welhi and back through Mosquée Louta. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée Fadhloun and Mosquée Welhi
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 73 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 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 Fadhloun
On Djerba, the mosques look like fortresses, and for good reason. The island off the south-east coast of Tunisia was a place of pirates, raiders and rival fleets, and its Ibadi Muslim community, a small branch of Islam distinct from the Sunni and Shia majorities, built its places of prayer as strongholds: thick whitewashed walls, stubby buttresses, few windows and flat roofs with small domes, so low and plain that they seem to grow out of the earth. The Fadhloun Mosque near Midoun is one of the best known, with a courtyard, prayer hall and, as in the others, an underground cistern to store rainwater, since the island has no rivers. Louta, the other mosque on this ride, belongs to the same family.
Read the complete Mosquée Fadhloun write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Fadhloun is where the day begins. Next is Mosquée Louta.
2. Mosquée Louta
In the central and southern parts of the island, among olive groves and sandy lanes, stand small whitewashed mosques of the Ibadi tradition, with thick walls, simple domes and sometimes a short minaret and an outer stair. Some were built as places of refuge, with storerooms and wells inside, to serve scattered communities in times of raids, and others as neighbourhood mosques for a cluster of farms. Together they are among the features for which the island of Djerba was added to the UNESCO list in 2023.
Read the complete Mosquée Louta write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Louta comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mosquée Welhi.
3. Mosquée Welhi
The little mosques of Djerba look like fortresses that have turned to prayer. Whitewashed, with thick sloping buttresses, small domes and short squat minarets, they stand among olive groves and date palms across this flat Tunisian island, and they belong to a particular faith, the Ibadi branch of Islam, whose followers settled here in the early centuries after the Arab conquest and developed a distinctive local tradition.
Read the complete Mosquée Welhi write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 37 km into the recorded legs you reach Mosquée Welhi. Next is back through Mosquée Louta.
4. back through Mosquée Louta
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Louta write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mosquée Louta, late in the day. Next is Mosquée Fadhloun.
5. Mosquée Fadhloun
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Fadhloun write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mosquée Fadhloun. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée Fadhloun to Mosquée Louta
Mosquée Fadhloun → Mosquée Louta is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Louta to Mosquée Welhi
Mosquée Louta → Mosquée Welhi is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Welhi to back through Mosquée Louta
Mosquée Welhi → back through Mosquée Louta is 22 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Louta to Mosquée Fadhloun
back through Mosquée Louta → Mosquée Fadhloun is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.