Why this ride
From Midoun it runs 74 km to Midoun; allow about 1 h 36 of riding. The stops in between: Mosquée Moghzel, Zone Mejmej and back through Mosquée Moghzel. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée Sidi Zekri and Zone Mejmej
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 74 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 36
- 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 Zekri
Sidi Zekri is one of the many small religious buildings of Djerba, an island where it sometimes seems that every field has a whitewashed dome in it. The name suggests a local holy man, the sort of marabout who is buried under a domed tomb and whose tomb draws believers seeking help with illness or family troubles. Many such places are small and quiet, and are looked after by neighbours rather than by any big institution.
Read the complete Mosquée Sidi Zekri write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Sidi Zekri is where the day begins. Next is Mosquée Moghzel.
2. Mosquée Moghzel
Djerba is a flat, low island off the south coast of Tunisia, joined to the mainland by a Roman causeway and a ferry, and its landscape of olive groves, palms and whitewashed farmhouses is dotted with small mosques that look more like fortresses than places of prayer. The Moghzel mosque is one of them. Djerba has a long Ibadi tradition, a branch of Islam that is neither Sunni nor Shia, and many of the island's villages are Berber speaking, with architecture suited to hard times: thick walls, buttresses, small domes, and a plain whitewashed look that fits the sun and the sea.
Read the complete Mosquée Moghzel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Moghzel comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zone Mejmej.
3. Zone Mejmej
Mejmej is a rural district in the south-west of Djerba, a little way from Erriadh, and it feels like the island's countryside as it was before tourism: small fields of barley and vegetables between lines of olive trees, palm groves, and low white farmhouses behind hedges of prickly pear. The ground is flat and the horizon wide, and the sky looks bigger than it does on the mainland. A few kilometres to the south, the sea is shallow and warm, and the tide leaves long flats where people gather shellfish.
Read the complete Zone Mejmej write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 38 km into the recorded legs you reach Zone Mejmej. Next is back through Mosquée Moghzel.
4. back through Mosquée Moghzel
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Moghzel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mosquée Moghzel, late in the day. Next is Mosquée Sidi Zekri.
5. Mosquée Sidi Zekri
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Sidi Zekri 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 Zekri. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée Sidi Zekri to Mosquée Moghzel
Mosquée Sidi Zekri → Mosquée Moghzel is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Moghzel to Zone Mejmej
Mosquée Moghzel → Zone Mejmej is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone Mejmej to back through Mosquée Moghzel
Zone Mejmej → back through Mosquée Moghzel is 19 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Moghzel to Mosquée Sidi Zekri
back through Mosquée Moghzel → Mosquée Sidi Zekri is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.