CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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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From Old City it runs 353 km to Old City; allow about 5 h 52 of riding. It goes by way of Masada, Tel Beer Sheba and back through Masada. It crosses from Palestinian Territories into Israel - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Few square kilometres on earth carry as much weight as these. The Old City of Jerusalem holds sites sacred to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, packed into a maze of stone lanes inside walls built by the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1530s. The Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque lie within a few minutes' walk of each other, and the city's four traditional quarters, Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Armenian, each have their own character, markets and rhythms. The Old City and its walls were added to the UNESCO list in 1981.
Read the complete Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls write-up.
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Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls is where the day begins. Next is Masada.
The Dead Sea lies more than four hundred metres below sea level, the lowest point on land, and Masada rises above its western shore as a vast flat-topped rock with sheer cliffs on every side. King Herod built a palace fortress here in the first century BC, with storerooms, cisterns, bathhouses and a three-tiered palace hanging from the northern cliff. After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70, a group of Jewish rebels held out on the rock against the Roman army. The Romans built a siege ramp up the western side, and according to the historian Josephus, when the walls were breached, the defenders chose to die rather than be captured.
Read the complete Masada write-up.
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Masada comes up about 111 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tel Beer Sheba.
Tel Beer Sheba is a mound on the edge of the modern city of Beersheba, in the northern Negev desert of southern Israel, and it holds the remains of an Iron Age town that has been excavated and partially reconstructed. With Megiddo and Hazor, it forms the UNESCO site of the Biblical Tels, recognized for their importance in understanding the cities of the biblical era. The name Beersheba appears many times in the Bible, associated with Abraham and the wells he dug in the desert.
Read the complete Tel Beer Sheba write-up.
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about 176 km into the recorded legs you reach Tel Beer Sheba. Next is back through Masada.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Masada write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Masada, late in the day. Next is Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls. That is the ride.
Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls → Masada is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Masada → Tel Beer Sheba is 65 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tel Beer Sheba → back through Masada is 66 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Masada → Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls is 111 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.