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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358 km from Tel Aviv to Tel Aviv, about 5 h 39 of riding. The stops in between: Area 1, Masada and back through Area 1. It crosses from Israel into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check the toll rules. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
White walls, rounded balconies, ribbon windows and flat roofs: walking through central Tel Aviv you are surrounded by one of the largest collections of buildings in the International Style anywhere in the world. Several thousand were built in the 1930s and 1940s, many by architects who had trained in Europe, some at the Bauhaus, and who adapted the modernist ideas to the Mediterranean climate with balconies for shade and raised ground floors for air. The White City, as it is called, became a World Heritage Site in 2003. The plan of the city itself was drawn up by the Scottish urbanist Patrick Geddes in the 1920s, with tree lined boulevards and green squares.
Read the complete White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme write-up.
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White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme is where the day begins. Next is Area 1.
The hills south of Jerusalem and Bethlehem are older than most of the countries now claiming them, and the terraced slopes around Battir are among the best evidence. For centuries, perhaps for two thousand years, farmers here have built dry-stone terraces down the steep valley sides to grow olives, grapes, figs and vegetables, and the water that feeds them comes from springs and is shared out through channels according to a rota among local families. The system was recognised as a World Heritage landscape in 2014, under the title of the land of olives and vines in southern Jerusalem.
Read the complete Area 1 write-up.
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Area 1 comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Masada.
The Dead Sea lies more than four hundred metres below sea level, the lowest point on land, and Masada rises above its western shore as a vast flat-topped rock with sheer cliffs on every side. King Herod built a palace fortress here in the first century BC, with storerooms, cisterns, bathhouses and a three-tiered palace hanging from the northern cliff. After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70, a group of Jewish rebels held out on the rock against the Roman army. The Romans built a siege ramp up the western side, and according to the historian Josephus, when the walls were breached, the defenders chose to die rather than be captured.
Read the complete Masada write-up.
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about 178 km into the recorded legs you reach Masada. Next is back through Area 1.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Area 1 write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Area 1, late in the day. Next is White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme. That is the ride.
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme → Area 1 is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Area 1 → Masada is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Masada → back through Area 1 is 101 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Area 1 → White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.