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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194 km from Haifa to Haifa, about 3 h 21 of riding. On the way it passes Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of, Junayn Garden, Qalaat Chama’ and back through Junayn Garden. It crosses from Israel into Lebanon - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
The ride follows Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm → Necropolis of Bet She’ari for 26 km.
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 Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
In the second century AD, after the failed revolts against Rome, the centre of Jewish life moved to Galilee, and the Sanhedrin, the supreme rabbinical council, settled for a time at Bet She'arim, on a hill at the western edge of the Jezreel valley. Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi, the patriarch who compiled the Mishnah, the first great codification of Jewish law, lived here, and when he was buried in the necropolis, Jews from all over the diaspora wanted to be buried near him. The result is a vast network of catacombs carved into the soft limestone, listed by UNESCO in 2015.
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Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of comes up about 26 km into the recorded legs. Next is Junayn Garden.
On the coastal plain of western Galilee, between Nahariya and Akko, a small garden known as Junayn is one of the Bahá'í holy places in Israel. Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, spent his final years in exile in this region in the late nineteenth century, after being banished by the Ottoman authorities from Persia and then from Baghdad, Istanbul and Edirne. Once his confinement in the prison-city of Akko was relaxed, he would visit gardens around the town, and this was one of them. The Bahá'í holy places in Haifa and western Galilee, including the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh at Bahjí and the terraced gardens on Mount Carmel, were listed by UNESCO in 2008. The gardens are tended with remarkable precision by Bahá'í volunteers from around the world, and the atmosphere is serene.
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about 70 km into the recorded legs you reach Junayn Garden. Next is Qalaat Chama’.
Before anything else: this is one of the most sensitive places on any of these routes. Qalaat Chama, or Shamaa castle, stands on a hilltop in southern Lebanon, a few kilometres north of the border with Israel and inland from Naqoura, in an area that has seen repeated conflict, including heavy fighting in recent years, and that many governments advise against visiting under any circumstances. Damage to historic sites in the area has been reported, and conditions may have changed. Do not go without checking current official travel advice, and if in doubt, do not go at all.
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Qalaat Chama’, about halfway. Next is back through Junayn Garden.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Junayn Garden sits at 129 km, about halfway. Next is back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of write-up.
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back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of comes up about 168 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm closes the day.
Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm → Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → Junayn Garden is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Junayn Garden → Qalaat Chama’ is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Qalaat Chama’ → back through Junayn Garden is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Junayn Garden → back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 44 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → Place of Revelation of the “Tablet of Carm is 26 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.