CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 264 km round trip from Sīlat az̧ Z̧ahr - roughly 4 h 42 in the saddle. On the way it passes Tel Megiddo, Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:, Biblical Tels - Megiddo and back through Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:. It crosses from Palestinian Territories into Israel - carry ID and check the toll rules.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Tel Megiddo.
From the top of Tel Megiddo, the whole of the Jezreel Valley spreads out below you, a green and gold checkerboard of fields stretching towards Mount Tabor and the hills of Galilee. You can see at once why so many armies fought here. The mound guarded the narrow pass where the ancient coastal road, the Via Maris, crossed from the Mediterranean plain into the valley, and anyone who held it controlled one of the great trade and military routes of the ancient world.
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Tel Megiddo comes up about 51 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:.
In the caves of Nahal Me'arot, on the western slope of Mount Carmel near the coast south of Haifa, people lived on and off for half a million years, and both Neanderthals and early modern humans left their bones here. The four caves, Tabun, Jamal, el-Wad and Skhul, contain one of the longest records of human evolution anywhere, and they were listed as a World Heritage Site in 2012. Tabun alone has layers spanning hundreds of thousands of years. The Natufian culture, among the first people to settle in villages before farming, also left traces in el-Wad.
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about 91 km into the recorded legs you reach Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:. Next is Biblical Tels - Megiddo.
Megiddo is the hill that gave the world the word Armageddon, which comes from Har Megiddo, the mount of Megiddo, and it sits where the Jezreel valley opens to the coast road, a little north of the Wadi Ara pass. The tell is a long mound made of some twenty layers of ruined cities piled on top of each other, and from its top the whole green plain stretches north to the hills of Nazareth. Today it is inscribed on the World Heritage list together with two other biblical mounds.
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Biblical Tels - Megiddo, about halfway. Next is back through Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:.
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back through Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: sits at 141 km, about halfway. Next is back through Tel Megiddo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tel Megiddo write-up.
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back through Tel Megiddo comes up about 213 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sebastia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sebastia write-up.
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Sebastia closes the day.
Sebastia → Tel Megiddo is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tel Megiddo → Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: → Biblical Tels - Megiddo is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Biblical Tels - Megiddo → back through Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: → back through Tel Megiddo is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tel Megiddo → Sebastia is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.