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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A 190 km round trip from Plouharnel - roughly 3 h 13 in the saddle. On the way it passes Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul, Confluence des trois rivières and back through Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul. Open plateau country, wide and exposed.
Carnac is the greatest concentration of standing stones in the world, and the sheer number is hard to believe until you see it. More than three thousand granite blocks, set in long, straight rows, march across the heathland north of the town, in alignments called Ménec, Kermario and Kerlescan. They were raised by Neolithic people between about 4500 and 3300 BC, long before Stonehenge or the pyramids, and nobody knows exactly why. Theories range from calendars and tombs to ritual processions, and the stones themselves, grey, lichened and leaning, stay silent. The coastal landscape of Morbihan is now recognised on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
Read the complete Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur write-up.
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Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur is where the day begins. Next is Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul.
Quiberon is a thin finger of granite that points south into the Atlantic from the Breton coast, fourteen kilometres long and in places hardly a couple of hundred metres wide.
Read the complete Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul write-up.
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Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul comes up about 17 km into the recorded legs. Next is Confluence des trois rivières.
The Gulf of Morbihan is a small sea, mor bihan in Breton, almost closed off from the Atlantic by a narrow gap at the entrance, and filled with islands: some say there are as many as there are days in the year, though the count depends on the tide. Water pours in and out through the narrows with such force that the current can run at several knots, and the shores are a patchwork of oyster beds, salt marshes and little harbours. The points where rivers meet the gulf, like this one, are lively places, full of birds, and shaped by the tides.
Read the complete Confluence des trois rivières write-up.
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about 95 km into the recorded legs you reach Confluence des trois rivières. Next is back through Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul, late in the day. Next is Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur. That is the ride.
Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur → Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul is 17 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul → Confluence des trois rivières is 78 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Confluence des trois rivières → back through Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Presqu'île de Quiberon - Bassin de Kerboul → Plateau de Carnac - Bassin du Gouyanzeur is 15 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.