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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318 km from Tyre to Tyre, about 5 h 29 of riding. The stops in between: Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester, Sebastia and back through Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester. It crosses Lebanon, Israel and Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
The ride follows Tyre → Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester for 72 km.
Tyre was already ancient when Alexander the Great arrived in 332 before Christ. Then it was an island city just off the coast of what is now southern Lebanon, famously rich and famously stubborn, and when its citizens refused to open their gates, Alexander built a causeway out to the island and besieged it for months. Sand piled up against that causeway over the centuries, and the island became the peninsula you see today, with the modern city of Tyre spreading across it and the old harbour still busy with fishing boats.
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Tyre is where the day begins. Next is Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester.
Mount Carmel rises straight from the sea at Haifa, and on its northern slope a staircase of nineteen terraces of gardens, lawns and fountains climbs from the German Colony to the ridge, with the golden-domed Shrine of the Báb in the middle of it all. The Báb, a young merchant from Shiraz, proclaimed in 1844 that a new messenger of God would come, and he was executed in Tabriz in 1850. His remains were hidden and finally brought to Haifa and placed in a tomb on the slope, with the first building completed in 1909 and the present octagon with its dome of gold tiles finished in 1953. The terraces were completed in 2001. The gardens and the shrine, together with the sites at Bahji near Akko, make up the Baha'i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee, listed by UNESCO in 2008.
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Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester comes up about 72 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 159 km into the recorded legs you reach Sebastia. Next is back through Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester, late in the day. Next is Tyre.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tyre write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Tyre. That is the ride.
Tyre → Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester → Sebastia is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sebastia → back through Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester is 87 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Wester → Tyre is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.