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: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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On the way it passes Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I, Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S, Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B and Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,100 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Kazakhstan into Kyrgyzstan - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
Kazakhstan's oldest nature reserve sits where the western end of the Tien Shan meets the steppe, in the Talas Alatau range, and it was set aside as early as 1926. Aksu-Jabagly is a country of steep limestone gorges, high meadows and snowy ridges that climb above three thousand metres, and it forms part of the UNESCO listing for the Western Tien-Shan. The Aksu canyon cuts through the heart of it, with walls hung with juniper, and on some rock faces you can find petroglyphs left by herders and hunters thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p write-up.
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Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p is where the day begins. Next is Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I.
In the far south of Kazakhstan, east of the city of Shymkent, the Western Tien Shan mountains rise abruptly from the steppe in a wall of snow-capped peaks, deep gorges and forests of juniper, walnut and wild fruit trees. The Sairam-Ugam National Park protects a large part of these mountains, and it is one of the components of the Western Tien Shan World Heritage site, listed by UNESCO in 2016 together with areas in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I write-up.
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Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I comes up about 205 km into the recorded legs. Next is Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S.
The Western Tien Shan comes down to meet the steppe here, in the far south of Kazakhstan, and the Sairam-Ugam National Park protects a big piece of that collision. Snowy ridges rise above deep valleys with rushing rivers, forests of juniper, birch and wild fruit trees, and high meadows full of flowers in early summer. The park is part of the Western Tien Shan World Heritage Site, shared with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and listed in 2016, a region known as one of the places where many fruit trees, including wild apples, walnuts and apricots, have their origins. The wildlife includes snow leopards, ibex, bears and the endemic Menzbier's marmot.
Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 373 km into the recorded legs you reach Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S. Next is Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B.
In the south of Kazakhstan, where the western spurs of the Tien Shan rise from the steppe, the Sairam-Ugam National Park protects a landscape of high mountains, deep valleys, juniper forests and alpine meadows. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Western Tien Shan, shared between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, recognised for its exceptional biodiversity, including wild relatives of fruit trees such as apples, pears and walnuts, which are believed to be the ancestors of many cultivated varieties.
Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B write-up.
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Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B, about halfway. Next is Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part.
Far up the Chatkal valley in western Kyrgyzstan, where the river runs between the Chatkal and Sandalash ranges of the Western Tien Shan, lies the Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve. It protects mountain steppe, juniper woodland, walnut and apple groves and rocky high country, and it is part of the transnational World Heritage Site of the Western Tien Shan, inscribed in 2016 and shared with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The reserve was created in particular to protect Menzbier's marmot, a small marmot found only in this part of Central Asia.
Read the complete Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part write-up.
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Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part sits at 846 km, about halfway. Next is back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B.
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Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B write-up.
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back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B comes up about 1156 km into the recorded legs. Next is back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S.
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Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S write-up.
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about 1319 km into the recorded legs you reach back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S. Next is back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I.
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Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I write-up.
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back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I, late in the day. Next is Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
The route ends here after 1692 km.
Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p → Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I is 205 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I → Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S is 168 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S → Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B is 163 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B → Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part is 310 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part → back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B is 310 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B → back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S is 163 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S → back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I is 168 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I → Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p is 205 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.