Why this ride
A 65 km round trip from Houmt El Souk - roughly 1 h 38 in the saddle. It goes by way of Mosquée Welhi, Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine and back through Mosquée Welhi.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Zone Côtière inhabitée and Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 65 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 1 h 38
- 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 Mosquée Welhi.
2. Mosquée Welhi
The little mosques of Djerba look like fortresses that have turned to prayer. Whitewashed, with thick sloping buttresses, small domes and short squat minarets, they stand among olive groves and date palms across this flat Tunisian island, and they belong to a particular faith, the Ibadi branch of Islam, whose followers settled here in the early centuries after the Arab conquest and developed a distinctive local tradition.
Read the complete Mosquée Welhi write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Mosquée Welhi comes up about 13 km into the recorded legs. Next is Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine.
3. 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
about 31 km into the recorded legs you reach Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine. Next is back through Mosquée Welhi.
4. back through Mosquée Welhi
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Mosquée Welhi write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Mosquée Welhi, late in the day. Next is Zone Côtière inhabitée.
5. 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
Back at Zone Côtière inhabitée. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Zone Côtière inhabitée to Mosquée Welhi
Zone Côtière inhabitée → Mosquée Welhi is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mosquée Welhi to Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine
Mosquée Welhi → Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine is 18 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine to back through Mosquée Welhi
Zone Khazroun / Sedghiene / Guecheine → back through Mosquée Welhi is 20 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Mosquée Welhi to Zone Côtière inhabitée
back through Mosquée Welhi → Zone Côtière inhabitée is 13 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.