Why this ride
From Houmt El Souk it runs 147 km to Houmt El Souk; allow about 3 h 01 of riding. The stops in between: Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine, Mosquée Mthanya, Mosquée Moghzel and back through Mosquée Mthanya.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Zone Côtière inhabitée and Mosquée Moghzel
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 147 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 01
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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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Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Zone Côtière inhabitée
Most of Djerba is cultivated, and then the cultivation stops. On the island's northern shore, where the olive groves and palm gardens run out, a strip of shallow sea, salt flat, sand and scrub stretches along the coast with hardly a building on it, and this is the uninhabited coastal zone that the island's heritage listing includes in its protected landscape. In 2023, UNESCO recognised Djerba for the way its people shaped a territory without rivers or springs, and the empty shore is part of that story, because it shows what the settlers started with and what they chose to leave alone.
Read the complete Zone Côtière inhabitée write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Zone Côtière inhabitée is where the day begins. Next is Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine.
2. Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine
Khazroun, Sedghiene and Guecheine are the kinds of names that appear on a heritage dossier and nowhere else, and they refer to zones of the island's countryside that make up one part of the World Heritage listing. Djerba was inscribed by UNESCO in 2023 as a cultural landscape, and the list names several zones, each a patch of the traditional pattern in good condition.
Read the complete Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine comes up about 25 km into the recorded legs. Next is Mosquée Mthanya.
3. Mosquée Mthanya
Mthanya is another of Djerba's fortress mosques, tucked among olive groves and low white houses south of Erriadh, and like its neighbours it is built for strength rather than show. The island has dozens of these Ibadi mosques, and UNESCO recognised them in 2023 as part of the cultural landscape of Djerba, along with the farm hamlets, the markets and the water systems that make this island such a distinct human habitat.
Read the complete Mosquée Mthanya write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
about 46 km into the recorded legs you reach Mosquée Mthanya. Next is Mosquée Moghzel.
4. Mosquée Moghzel
Djerba is a flat, low island off the south coast of Tunisia, joined to the mainland by a Roman causeway and a ferry, and its landscape of olive groves, palms and whitewashed farmhouses is dotted with small mosques that look more like fortresses than places of prayer. The Moghzel mosque is one of them. Djerba has a long Ibadi tradition, a branch of Islam that is neither Sunni nor Shia, and many of the island's villages are Berber speaking, with architecture suited to hard times: thick walls, buttresses, small domes, and a plain whitewashed look that fits the sun and the sea.
Read the complete Mosquée Moghzel write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Moghzel, about halfway. Next is back through Mosquée Mthanya.
5. back through Mosquée Mthanya
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Mthanya write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mosquée Mthanya sits at 100 km, about halfway. Next is back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine.
6. back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine comes up about 120 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zone Côtière inhabitée.
7. Zone Côtière inhabitée
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Zone Côtière inhabitée write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Zone Côtière inhabitée closes the day.
Leg by leg
Zone Côtière inhabitée to Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine
Zone Côtière inhabitée → Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine to Mosquée Mthanya
Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine → Mosquée Mthanya is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Mthanya to Mosquée Moghzel
Mosquée Mthanya → Mosquée Moghzel is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Moghzel to back through Mosquée Mthanya
Mosquée Moghzel → back through Mosquée Mthanya is 28 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Mthanya to back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine
back through Mosquée Mthanya → back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine is 21 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine to Zone Côtière inhabitée
back through Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine → Zone Côtière inhabitée is 25 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.