Why this ride
A 77 km round trip from Houmt El Souk - roughly 1 h 45 in the saddle. The stops in between: Zone Temlel, Mosquée Sidi Yeti and back through Zone Temlel. The line favours views over speed.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Mosquée Tajdit and Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 77 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 45
- 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 Tajdit
Tajdit is an Arabic word meaning renewal, and a mosque with that name usually means one that was rebuilt or enlarged at some point, which suits an island where buildings are whitewashed every year and constantly mended. It is not a place with a famous monument, but a pleasant piece of country that rewards a slow ride.
Read the complete Mosquée Tajdit write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Tajdit is where the day begins. Next is Zone Temlel.
2. Zone Temlel
Midoun is the second town of Djerba, and Temlel lies just beside it, a rural zone of walled plots, olive trees, palms and whitewashed houses in the east of the island. It is the kind of place that a guidebook would skip, and yet it is exactly what the island's World Heritage listing is about. In 2023 UNESCO recognised Djerba as an outstanding example of how a community lived on an island with no rivers, by dividing the land into small family holdings, each with its well, its cistern, its olive press or oven, and its orchard, grouped in neighbourhoods called houmas, around a mosque and a market.
Read the complete Zone Temlel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Zone Temlel comes up about 14 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mosquée Sidi Yeti.
3. 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
about 39 km into the recorded legs you reach Mosquée Sidi Yeti. Next is back through Zone Temlel.
4. back through Zone Temlel
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zone Temlel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Zone Temlel, late in the day. Next is Mosquée Tajdit.
5. Mosquée Tajdit
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Tajdit write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Mosquée Tajdit. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Mosquée Tajdit to Zone Temlel
Mosquée Tajdit → Zone Temlel is 14 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone Temlel to Mosquée Sidi Yeti
Zone Temlel → Mosquée Sidi Yeti is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Sidi Yeti to back through Zone Temlel
Mosquée Sidi Yeti → back through Zone Temlel is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zone Temlel to Mosquée Tajdit
back through Zone Temlel → Mosquée Tajdit is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.