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 312 km round trip from Atlit - roughly 5 h 44 in the saddle. The stops in between: Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Sebastia, White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme and back through Sebastia. It crosses from Israel into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
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.
Read the complete Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: write-up.
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Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: is where the day begins. 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.
Read the complete Biblical Tels - Megiddo write-up.
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Biblical Tels - Megiddo comes up about 40 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 94 km into the recorded legs you reach Sebastia. Next is White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme.
White walls, rounded balconies, ribbon windows and flat roofs: walking through central Tel Aviv you are surrounded by one of the largest collections of buildings in the International Style anywhere in the world. Several thousand were built in the 1930s and 1940s, many by architects who had trained in Europe, some at the Bauhaus, and who adapted the modernist ideas to the Mediterranean climate with balconies for shade and raised ground floors for air. The White City, as it is called, became a World Heritage Site in 2003. The plan of the city itself was drawn up by the Scottish urbanist Patrick Geddes in the 1920s, with tree lined boulevards and green squares.
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White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme, about halfway. 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 sits at 184 km, about halfway. Next is back through Biblical Tels - Megiddo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Biblical Tels - Megiddo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Biblical Tels - Megiddo comes up about 270 km into the recorded legs. 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.
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: closes the day.
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 → Sebastia is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sebastia → White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme → back through Sebastia is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sebastia → back through Biblical Tels - Megiddo is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Biblical Tels - Megiddo → Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.