Why this ride
61 km from Erriadh to Erriadh, about 1 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Mosquée Sidi Yeti, Zone Hara Sghira and back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée Imghar and Zone Hara Sghira
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 61 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 35
- 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 Imghar
Djerba's mosques look like small fortresses, which is more or less what they once were. Imghar, in the interior of the island, is one of the group of Ibadi mosques whose whitewashed walls, thick buttresses and low domes give them the air of a farmhouse that has been trained for war. Ibadism is a branch of Islam that predates the Sunni-Shia split, and it survives today mainly in Oman, parts of North Africa and here on Djerba, where it has shaped the island's culture for over a thousand years.
Read the complete Mosquée Imghar write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Imghar 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 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zone Hara Sghira.
3. Zone Hara Sghira
Hara Sghira means the little quarter, and for centuries it was the name of the Jewish village on Djerba's north coast, a few minutes from Houmt El Souk across flat olive and palm country. Today the modern town around it is called Erriadh, and it has two reputations. One is religious: the El Ghriba synagogue, which locals will tell you is the oldest in Africa, draws pilgrims every spring for a festival of candles and song, and visitors go through security checks at the gate, which is a sign of the troubled recent history rather than anything to be nervous about. The other is artistic, for in 2014 well over a hundred artists from dozens of countries covered the whitewashed walls of the village with murals, and the project, called Djerbahood, turned a sleepy street grid into an open-air gallery.
Read the complete Zone Hara Sghira write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 30 km into the recorded legs you reach Zone Hara Sghira. 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 Imghar.
5. Mosquée Imghar
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Imghar write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mosquée Imghar. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée Imghar to Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Mosquée Imghar → Mosquée Sidi Yeti is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Sidi Yeti to Zone Hara Sghira
Mosquée Sidi Yeti → Zone Hara Sghira is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone Hara Sghira to back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Zone Hara Sghira → back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti to Mosquée Imghar
back through Mosquée Sidi Yeti → Mosquée Imghar is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.