CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 107 km round trip from Umm el Faḥm - roughly 1 h 45 in the saddle. On the way it passes Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of, Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: and back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of. The line favours views over speed.
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.
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Tel Megiddo is where the day begins. Next is Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
In the second century AD, after the failed revolts against Rome, the centre of Jewish life moved to Galilee, and the Sanhedrin, the supreme rabbinical council, settled for a time at Bet She'arim, on a hill at the western edge of the Jezreel valley. Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi, the patriarch who compiled the Mishnah, the first great codification of Jewish law, lived here, and when he was buried in the necropolis, Jews from all over the diaspora wanted to be buried near him. The result is a vast network of catacombs carved into the soft limestone, listed by UNESCO in 2015.
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Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of comes up about 18 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:.
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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about 53 km into the recorded legs you reach Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel:. Next is back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of, late in the day. Next is Tel Megiddo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tel Megiddo write-up.
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Back at Tel Megiddo. That is the ride.
Tel Megiddo → Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sites of Human Evolution at Mount Carmel: → back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of is 36 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Necropolis of Bet She’arim: A Landmark of → Tel Megiddo is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.