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 Tel Aviv it runs 297 km to Tel Aviv; allow about 5 h 09 of riding. The stops in between: Sebastia, Tel Megiddo, North Slope of Mount Carmel and back through Tel Megiddo. It crosses from Israel into Palestinian Territories - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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 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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Sebastia comes up about 62 km into the recorded legs. Next is Tel Megiddo.
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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about 113 km into the recorded legs you reach Tel Megiddo. Next is North Slope of Mount Carmel.
Haifa is the one big Israeli city where you really do ride up a mountain to get home. The north slope of Mount Carmel drops almost straight into the Mediterranean, and the city is stacked on it in layers: port and railway at the bottom, then the German Colony with its tidy Templer houses, then the long terraces of the Bahá'í Gardens, and finally the ridge, where the road along the top gives you the whole bay as far as Acre on a clear afternoon.
Read the complete North Slope of Mount Carmel write-up.
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North Slope of Mount Carmel, about halfway. Next is back through Tel Megiddo.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tel Megiddo write-up.
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back through Tel Megiddo sits at 199 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sebastia.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sebastia write-up.
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back through Sebastia comes up about 234 km into the recorded legs. 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.
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White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme closes the day.
White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme → Sebastia is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sebastia → Tel Megiddo is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tel Megiddo → North Slope of Mount Carmel is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
North Slope of Mount Carmel → back through Tel Megiddo is 35 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Tel Megiddo → back through Sebastia is 51 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sebastia → White City of Tel-Aviv - the Modern Moveme is 62 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.