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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From Murten/Morat it runs 357 km to Murten/Morat; allow about 5 h 47 of riding. It goes by way of Vingelz / Hafen, Inkwilersee Insel, Egolzwil 3 and Kehrsiten. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
For about 41 km this is Grand Tour of Switzerland, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it — expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast.
The ride follows Vingelz / Hafen → Inkwilersee Insel for 40 km.
On the southern shore of the Murtensee, just west of the medieval town of Murten, a little point of land juts into the water at Greng, and here, beneath the shallows, archaeologists found the posts of prehistoric lake villages. Greng-Spitz is one of the Swiss sites in the UNESCO group of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, and while there is nothing to see but reeds, water and the occasional marker, it is pleasant to know that people lived on this shore some five thousand years ago.
Read the complete Spitz write-up.
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Spitz is where the day begins. Next is Vingelz / Hafen.
Biel and Bienne are the same city, one name in German and one in French, and street signs, conversations and even jokes switch between the two languages without anyone noticing. At its western edge, the lakeside district of Vingelz, with its small harbour, has given archaeologists remains of prehistoric pile dwellings in the shallow water of Lake Biel, and the site is one piece of the World Heritage property for pile dwellings around the Alps. The lake, long and narrow, lies at the foot of the Jura mountains, and its shores have been inhabited for thousands of years.
Read the complete Vingelz / Hafen write-up.
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Vingelz / Hafen comes up about 41 km into the recorded legs. Next is Inkwilersee Insel.
You could ride past the Inkwilersee a dozen times without noticing it. It is a small, shallow lake tucked into a fold of farmland right on the line between the cantons of Bern and Solothurn, ringed with reeds and alders, with a tiny wooded island near its middle. That island is the reason for the label: beneath its trees and in the mud around it lie traces of prehistoric lakeside settlement, enough to earn the Inkwilersee a place among the Alpine pile-dwelling sites on the World Heritage list.
Read the complete Inkwilersee Insel write-up.
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about 81 km into the recorded legs you reach Inkwilersee Insel. Next is Egolzwil 3.
Archaeologists named a whole Neolithic culture after Egolzwil, a small village in the canton of Lucerne, because the settlements found in the Wauwiler Moos, a former lake turned into peat bog, revealed a way of life older than anything else known in the region at the time. Egolzwil 3, one of these sites, was a village of farmers who lived on the shore of a small lake over six thousand years ago, and it counts as one component of UNESCO's inscription of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps. The lake was drained in the nineteenth century to create farmland, and the remains were preserved in the wet peat.
Read the complete Egolzwil 3 write-up.
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Egolzwil 3, about halfway. Next is Kehrsiten.
Kehrsiten is a small settlement on the southern shore of Lake Lucerne, at the foot of the Bürgenstock, a steep, forested ridge that juts out into the lake, and it feels almost cut off from the rest of Switzerland. A narrow road follows the shore from Stansstad, squeezed between the rocks and the water, and ends here; beyond, the cliffs of the Bürgenstock drop straight into the lake. For most visitors, Kehrsiten is the place where the boat from Lucerne stops and the Bürgenstock funicular begins, climbing steeply through the forest to the resort on top, which has been welcoming guests since the late nineteenth century.
Read the complete Kehrsiten write-up.
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Kehrsiten sits at 162 km, about halfway. Next is back through Egolzwil 3.
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Read the complete Egolzwil 3 write-up.
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back through Egolzwil 3 comes up about 224 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Inkwilersee Insel.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Inkwilersee Insel write-up.
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about 274 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Inkwilersee Insel. Next is back through Vingelz / Hafen.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Vingelz / Hafen write-up.
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back through Vingelz / Hafen, late in the day. Next is Spitz.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Spitz write-up.
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The route ends here after 357 km.
Spitz → Vingelz / Hafen is 41 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Vingelz / Hafen → Inkwilersee Insel is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Inkwilersee Insel → Egolzwil 3 is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Egolzwil 3 → Kehrsiten is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Kehrsiten → back through Egolzwil 3 is 47 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Egolzwil 3 → back through Inkwilersee Insel is 50 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Inkwilersee Insel → back through Vingelz / Hafen is 40 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Vingelz / Hafen → Spitz is 42 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.