Why this ride
70 km from Houmt El Souk to Houmt El Souk, about 1 h 30 of riding. The stops in between: Mosquée Medrajen, Mosquée Louta and back through Mosquée Medrajen. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée Sidi Salem and Mosquée Louta
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 70 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 30
- 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 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.
Read the complete Mosquée Sidi Salem write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Sidi Salem is where the day begins. Next is Mosquée Medrajen.
2. Mosquée Medrajen
The east of Djerba is the island's holiday coast, with long beaches, a line of big hotels and the busy market town of Midoun just inland, but the older island is not far behind. The Mosque of Medrajen, in the countryside between Midoun and the sea, belongs to the group of fortified Ibadi mosques that dot the interior, and it reminds visitors that the island was farmland and olive groves long before it was a resort.
Read the complete Mosquée Medrajen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Medrajen comes up about 15 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mosquée Louta.
3. 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
about 35 km into the recorded legs you reach Mosquée Louta. Next is back through Mosquée Medrajen.
4. back through Mosquée Medrajen
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Medrajen write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mosquée Medrajen, late in the day. Next is Mosquée Sidi Salem.
5. Mosquée Sidi Salem
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Sidi Salem write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mosquée Sidi Salem. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée Sidi Salem to Mosquée Medrajen
Mosquée Sidi Salem → Mosquée Medrajen is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Medrajen to Mosquée Louta
Mosquée Medrajen → Mosquée Louta is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Louta to back through Mosquée Medrajen
Mosquée Louta → back through Mosquée Medrajen is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Medrajen to Mosquée Sidi Salem
back through Mosquée Medrajen → Mosquée Sidi Salem is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.