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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From Umm el Faḥm it runs 271 km to Umm el Faḥm; allow about 4 h 40 of riding. It goes by way of Mansion of Mazra‘ih, Qalaat al-Chakif and back through Mansion of Mazra‘ih. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,000 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Israel into Lebanon - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
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.
Read the complete Tel Megiddo write-up.
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Tel Megiddo is where the day begins. Next is Mansion of Mazra‘ih.
The Baháʼí faith has two of its holiest places in Israel, and the Mansion of Mazra'ih is the quieter of them. It stands in the farmland north of Acre, near the coast, a large Ottoman-era house surrounded by gardens and orange trees. Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the religion, spent years as a prisoner in the fortress city of Acre, and when his confinement was relaxed in 1877 he moved here, living in the mansion for a couple of years before settling at nearby Bahjí, where he died in 1892.
Read the complete Mansion of Mazra‘ih write-up.
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Mansion of Mazra‘ih comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. Next is Qalaat al-Chakif.
Perched on a cliff edge some three hundred metres above the gorge of the Litani river in southern Lebanon, Beaufort Castle, known in Arabic as Qalaat al-Chakif, has watched over the borderlands of the Levant for nearly a thousand years. The Crusaders took and fortified it in the twelfth century, and it was finally surrendered to Saladin in 1190 after a long siege. Later it was held by the Mamluks, rebuilt and repaired by local rulers, and in the twentieth century it became a fiercely contested military position, occupied by Palestinian fighters and then by the Israeli army from 1982 until its withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000. Its stones have been battered by everything from siege engines to modern artillery.
Read the complete Qalaat al-Chakif write-up.
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about 135 km into the recorded legs you reach Qalaat al-Chakif. Next is back through Mansion of Mazra‘ih.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mansion of Mazra‘ih write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Mansion of Mazra‘ih, late in the day. Next is Tel Megiddo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tel Megiddo write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tel Megiddo. That is the ride.
Tel Megiddo → Mansion of Mazra‘ih is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mansion of Mazra‘ih → Qalaat al-Chakif is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Qalaat al-Chakif → back through Mansion of Mazra‘ih is 74 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Mansion of Mazra‘ih → Tel Megiddo is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.