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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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912 km from Madīnat ‘Īsá to Madīnat ‘Īsá, about 16 h 35 of riding. On the way it passes Al Zubarah Archaeological Site and back through Al Zubarah Archaeological Site. It crosses from Bahrain into Qatar - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Two mounds standing side by side look like a conversation, and the pair of Royal Mounds 13 and 14 has the look of one that has gone on for a long time. They sit close together in the A'ali cluster, their domes overlapping slightly at the base, and from a distance they resemble the humps of a sleeping animal. Archaeologists have noted that some of the royal tombs seem to come in groups, perhaps reflecting family relationships or generations of a ruling line, though none of this can be proved.
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Pair of Royal Mound 13 and 14 is where the day begins. Next is Al Zubarah Archaeological Site.
Out on the north-west coast of Qatar, where the desert slides into a shallow turquoise sea, stand the low ruins of Al Zubarah, once one of the busiest pearling and trading towns in the Gulf. In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the town thrived on pearls dived from the oyster beds offshore, traded on to India, Persia and beyond. Then it declined, was abandoned in the early twentieth century, and the sand covered it. Archaeologists have since uncovered streets, houses, a souk, mosques and a long town wall running in an arc around the old harbour. UNESCO inscribed the site in 2013.
Read the complete Al Zubarah Archaeological Site write-up.
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Al Zubarah Archaeological Site comes up about 459 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hayr Bū-l-Thāmah.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Al Zubarah Archaeological Site write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Al Zubarah Archaeological Site, late in the day. Next is Pair of Royal Mound 13 and 14.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Pair of Royal Mound 13 and 14 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Pair of Royal Mound 13 and 14. That is the ride.
Pair of Royal Mound 13 and 14 → Al Zubarah Archaeological Site is 459 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site → back through Al Zubarah Archaeological Site is 0 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Al Zubarah Archaeological Site → Pair of Royal Mound 13 and 14 is 459 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.