Why this ride
From Erriadh it runs 69 km to Erriadh; allow about 1 h 43 of riding. The stops in between: Mosquée Imghar, Synagogue La Ghriba and back through Mosquée Imghar.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée Sidi Yeti and Synagogue La Ghriba
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 69 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 43
- 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 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 is where the day begins. Next is Mosquée Imghar.
2. 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 comes up about 16 km into the recorded legs. Next is Synagogue La Ghriba.
3. Synagogue La Ghriba
La Ghriba stands on the island of Djerba, just outside the village of Erriadh, and it is among the oldest Jewish places of worship in North Africa. The name means the Stranger, or the Marvellous, and the stories about its beginning stretch back to a priest who fled Jerusalem after the destruction of the First Temple, bringing a door or a stone. Whatever the truth of that, the building you see today is much later, a nineteenth-century structure with a whitewashed exterior and an interior of blue, turquoise and gold tiles, carved wood and low lamps that give the prayer hall an underwater glow.
Read the complete Synagogue La Ghriba write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 34 km into the recorded legs you reach Synagogue La Ghriba. Next is back through Mosquée Imghar.
4. back through 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 through Mosquée Imghar, late in the day. Next is Mosquée Sidi Yeti.
5. 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 at Mosquée Sidi Yeti. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée Sidi Yeti to Mosquée Imghar
Mosquée Sidi Yeti → Mosquée Imghar is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Imghar to Synagogue La Ghriba
Mosquée Imghar → Synagogue La Ghriba is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Synagogue La Ghriba to back through Mosquée Imghar
Synagogue La Ghriba → back through Mosquée Imghar is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Imghar to Mosquée Sidi Yeti
back through Mosquée Imghar → Mosquée Sidi Yeti is 16 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.