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 69 km round trip from Erriadh - roughly 1 h 36 in the saddle. On the way it passes Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine, Mosquée Sidi Salem and back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Guellala is a potters' village, and has been for as long as anyone can remember. The clay beneath the hills of southern Djerba is a fine, pale material that fires to a warm terracotta, and the workshops around the village shape it into jars, plates, oil lamps and large amphorae, still using techniques similar to those of Roman times. Potters work at wheels in open yards, stack their wares to dry in the sun, and fire them in kilns fuelled with olive wood, and visitors can stand and watch. A small museum about local culture lies a short drive away.
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Mosquée Guellala is where the day begins. Next is Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine.
Khazroun, Sedghiene and Guecheine are the kinds of names that appear on a heritage dossier and nowhere else, and they refer to zones of the island's countryside that make up one part of the World Heritage listing. Djerba was inscribed by UNESCO in 2023 as a cultural landscape, and the list names several zones, each a patch of the traditional pattern in good condition.
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Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mosquée Sidi Salem.
Sidi is the title given to a local holy man, and many Djerban mosques and small domed tombs carry a saint's name, with a whitewashed cube or dome standing beside a tree at the edge of a field. Sidi Salem sits in the north-west of the island, between Houmt Souk and the sea, in an area of olive groves and market gardens where the land is so flat that you can see every dome for miles. On the coast not far away, the Borj Ghazi Mustapha, a square sixteenth-century fort that the Spanish built and the Ottomans took, stands over the shallow water at the old harbour entrance.
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about 34 km into the recorded legs you reach Mosquée Sidi Salem. Next is back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine, late in the day. Next is Mosquée Guellala.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Guellala write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Mosquée Guellala. That is the ride.
Mosquée Guellala → Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine → Mosquée Sidi Salem is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Sidi Salem → back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine → Mosquée Guellala is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.