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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376 km from Haifa to Haifa, about 6 h 29 of riding. It goes by way of Tyre, Anjar and back through Tyre. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,500 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Israel into Lebanon - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
73 km on Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm → Tyre.
Carmel means garden, or vineyard of God, and the mountain has been holy for a very long time. The prophet Elijah is said to have confronted the priests of Baal on its summit, in a story told in the Book of Kings, and the Carmelite order, founded by crusader-era hermits, took its name from the mountain and built its first monastery here. The Stella Maris monastery, with its lighthouse and white church, still stands above the port. In 1891, the founder of the Bahá'í faith, Bahá'u'lláh, visited Haifa and, according to tradition, revealed the Tablet of Carmel on the slopes of the mountain, a short text addressed to the mountain itself.
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Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm is where the day begins. Next is Tyre.
Tyre was already ancient when Alexander the Great arrived in 332 before Christ. Then it was an island city just off the coast of what is now southern Lebanon, famously rich and famously stubborn, and when its citizens refused to open their gates, Alexander built a causeway out to the island and besieged it for months. Sand piled up against that causeway over the centuries, and the island became the peninsula you see today, with the modern city of Tyre spreading across it and the old harbour still busy with fishing boats.
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Tyre comes up about 73 km into the recorded legs. Next is Anjar.
In the Bekaa valley of Lebanon, close to the Syrian border, an Umayyad city lies laid out in a perfect grid, as if drawn with a ruler. Anjar was built in the early eighth century, probably under the caliph al-Walid I, as a palace town and commercial centre on the trade routes between Damascus and the coast. Its plan echoes Roman cities, with two main streets crossing at a four-sided monument, the tetrapylon, lined with the bases of hundreds of shops. Arches of the great palace, built of alternating courses of stone and brick, rise against the backdrop of the Anti-Lebanon mountains, and in the late afternoon the stone glows warm gold. The city flourished only briefly before being abandoned, which is why it is so clearly preserved. UNESCO listed it in 1984.
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about 189 km into the recorded legs you reach Anjar. Next is back through Tyre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tyre write-up.
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back through Tyre, late in the day. Next is Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm. That is the ride.
Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm → Tyre is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Tyre → Anjar is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Anjar → back through Tyre is 116 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Tyre → Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm is 73 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.