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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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
932 km from Al Muharraq to Al Muharraq, about 16 h 55 of riding. On the way it passes Al Zubarah Archaeological Site and back through Al Zubarah Archaeological Site. It crosses from Bahrain into Qatar - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Muharraq has many mosques, and the Siyadi Mosque is one that people stop for even if they never go in. It was built by the Siyadi family, who were among the leading pearl merchants of the island, and it stands in the old quarter among their houses and shops, a plain white building whose simplicity is the whole point. In the Gulf, a merchant who had done well was expected to give something back, and a mosque was the obvious gift.
Read the complete Siyadi Mosque write-up.
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Siyadi Mosque is where the day begins. Next is Al Zubarah Archaeological Site.
Out on the north-west coast of Qatar, where the desert slides into a shallow turquoise sea, stand the low ruins of Al Zubarah, once one of the busiest pearling and trading towns in the Gulf. In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the town thrived on pearls dived from the oyster beds offshore, traded on to India, Persia and beyond. Then it declined, was abandoned in the early twentieth century, and the sand covered it. Archaeologists have since uncovered streets, houses, a souk, mosques and a long town wall running in an arc around the old harbour. UNESCO inscribed the site in 2013.
Read the complete Al Zubarah Archaeological Site write-up.
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Al Zubarah Archaeological Site comes up about 469 km into the recorded legs. Next is Hayr Bū-l-Thāmah.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Al Zubarah Archaeological Site write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Al Zubarah Archaeological Site, late in the day. Next is Siyadi Mosque.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Siyadi Mosque write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Siyadi Mosque. That is the ride.
Siyadi Mosque → Al Zubarah Archaeological Site is 469 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Al Zubarah Archaeological Site → back through Al Zubarah Archaeological Site is 0 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Al Zubarah Archaeological Site → Siyadi Mosque is 469 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.