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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329 km from Atlit to Atlit, about 5 h 33 of riding. On the way it passes Sebastia, Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan and back through Sebastia. It crosses from Israel into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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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Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: is where the day begins. 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 comes up about 83 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan.
Jericho is one of the oldest continuously inhabited towns on earth, and at Tell es-Sultan, on its northern edge, archaeologists have dug down through layers of settlement more than ten thousand years old. Among the finds is a great stone tower, built in the Neolithic, around eleven thousand years ago, long before writing, metal or the wheel, which is often called the oldest such tower in the world. The tell, with its trenches and mud brick walls, was listed as a World Heritage Site in 2023.
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about 164 km into the recorded legs you reach Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan. Next is back through Sebastia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sebastia write-up.
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back through Sebastia, late in the day. Next is Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:. That is the ride.
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: → Sebastia is 83 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sebastia → Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan is 81 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan → back through Sebastia is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sebastia → Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: is 84 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.