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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From Nabatîyé et Tahta it runs 417 km to Nabatîyé et Tahta; allow about 7 h 11 of riding. It goes by way of Tel Hazor, Mansion of Mazra‘ih, Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of and Sebastia. It crosses Lebanon, Israel and Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Southern Lebanon has a castle on almost every second hilltop, and Qalaat Deir Kifa is one of the less-known ones, a ruined fortification above the village of Deir Kifa in the rolling hills of Jabal Amel, between the Litani river and the coast at Tyre. Like many sites in this landscape, it has been built on, fought over and reused across several eras, and today what remains is stone walls, scattered blocks and a view across a countryside of olive groves, tobacco terraces and stony ridges.
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Qalaat Deir Kifa is where the day begins. Next is Tel Hazor.
If you stand on the top of Tel Hazor on a clear day, the view is of the Hula valley to the north and the hills of Upper Galilee to the west, with the snow-capped hump of Mount Hermon, in winter, sitting at the far end. The tel itself is a vast, flat-topped mound, the largest ancient site in Israel's north, rising out of the fields near Kibbutz Ayelet HaShahar. It is what archaeologists call a tel, a hill made of the layers of cities built one on top of another over thousands of years.
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Tel Hazor comes up about 42 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mansion of Mazra‘ih.
The Baháʼí faith has two of its holiest places in Israel, and the Mansion of Mazra'ih is the quieter of them. It stands in the farmland north of Acre, near the coast, a large Ottoman-era house surrounded by gardens and orange trees. Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the religion, spent years as a prisoner in the fortress city of Acre, and when his confinement was relaxed in 1877 he moved here, living in the mansion for a couple of years before settling at nearby Bahjí, where he died in 1892.
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about 101 km into the recorded legs you reach Mansion of Mazra‘ih. 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, about halfway. Next is Sebastia.
Sebastia, Sabastiya in Arabic, is a Palestinian village on a hill north-west of Nablus, in the northern West Bank, surrounded by olive groves and terraced hillsides. It stands on the site of Samaria, the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the ninth and eighth centuries BC, later rebuilt by Herod the Great, who named it Sebaste in honour of the Emperor Augustus. The ruins on the hilltop above the village span a thousand years of history.
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Sebastia sits at 209 km, about halfway. Next is back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
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back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of comes up about 272 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Mansion of Mazra‘ih.
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about 315 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Mansion of Mazra‘ih. Next is back through Tel Hazor.
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back through Tel Hazor, late in the day. Next is Qalaat Deir Kifa.
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The route ends here after 417 km.
Qalaat Deir Kifa → Tel Hazor is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tel Hazor → Mansion of Mazra‘ih is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mansion of Mazra‘ih → Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → Sebastia is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sebastia → back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 64 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → back through Mansion of Mazra‘ih is 43 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mansion of Mazra‘ih → back through Tel Hazor is 59 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tel Hazor → Qalaat Deir Kifa is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.