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A special bike ride, a bike ride that wants to bridge Christianity (Rome) and Islam (Mecca).

Regardless of color, religion or residence cyclists want a ride along the old pilgrim route through the major world religions major cities: Rome -Mecca This unique and challenging bike ride is being organized by the Rotary Clubs Delft Koningsveld and Delft Vermeer, Drechterland, Olimpos in Antalya, Turkey RC Wangen Allgäu (Germany) and RC Amman-West (Jordan). It is a sponsored bike ride to help children in war zones in Asia, the exchange of students between Turkey and The Netherlands and a local project in Jordan.

It seems an almost impossible cycle tour. Not so much because of the distance, but because the various countries that are affected: Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The tour takes you to places that are the roots of our civilization, such as Athens and Ephesus, Antioch in Turkey, Petra and Jerash (formerly Gerasa as) in Jordan. There is sufficient time allocated to the beautiful things on view.
Athens is named after the goddess Pallas Athene, in earlier times, the pattern of the city. The Parthenon temple on the Acropolis, the most famous monuments of the city, in honor of her.

Ephesus is the most important archaeological area of Turkey. It was originally (ca. 1100 BC). a group of indigenous settlements located around the sanctuary of the great Asian fertility goddess, Artemis of Ephesus named. Ephesus is now known as the largest open of the Roman Empire in the world.

Antioch on the Orontes was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River. It is near the modern city of Antakya, Turkey. Founded near the end of the 4th century BC by Seleucus I Nicator, one of Alexander the Great's generals, Antioch eventually rivaled Alexandria as the chief city of the nearer East and was a cradle of gentile Christianity. It was one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis. Probably Gerasa was already inhabited during the Bronze Age and Iron Age by a Semitic people, who built a temple for the Dashura where now the ruins of a Zeustempel located. In the first century BC the city was occupied by the Romans. In the first and second century, the city flourished. Only at the beginning of the 19th century the ruins were discovered.

Petra is located in a gap in the hills and is partially carved from the rocks. The flowering of the city is due to the trade route incense from Yemen, 1600 km south to Persia, Syria and Greek and Roman empires. Petra was the trade route a node. Only in 1812 Petra was rediscovered for the western world. The city was now turned into a ruin.