Alisher Navoi Cinema Palace and Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part starting at Tashkent
Plan this ride
Recorded distance
659 km
Riding-time estimate
14 h 50
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
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From Tashkent it runs 659 km to Tashkent; allow about 14 h 50 of riding. On the way it passes The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve, Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part and back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Uzbekistan into Kyrgyzstan - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Scenic road chapters
Alisher Navoi Cinema Palace → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reser
This part of the ride is 78 km of Alisher Navoi Cinema Palace → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reser.
Chapter facts
Length
78 km
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Alisher Navoi Cinema Palace
Alisher Navoi never saw Tashkent, or at least no record says he did, yet his name hangs over half the city. Born in Herat in 1441, a courtier and poet at the Timurid court, he argued passionately that Turkic could be as fine a literary language as Persian, and he wrote a vast body of verse and prose in the Chagatai Turkic that Uzbeks consider the ancestor of their own tongue. Streets, a theatre, a library and a national park carry his name, and so does this cinema palace, a monument to the idea that a city should have a hall of dreams named after its poet.
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Planning note
Alisher Navoi Cinema Palace is where the day begins. Next is The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve.
2. The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve
East of Tashkent, the land rises steeply into the western ranges of the Tian Shan, and the Chatkal range forms the border with Kyrgyzstan. The Chatkal State Biosphere Reserve, established in the Soviet era, protects a stretch of these mountains, with juniper forests, walnut and wild fruit trees, alpine meadows and rocky peaks.
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Planning note
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve comes up 80 km in. Next is Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part.
3. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Alisher Navoi Cinema Palace. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Alisher Navoi Cinema Palace to The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve
Alisher Navoi Cinema Palace → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve to Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part to back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part → back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve to Alisher Navoi Cinema Palace
back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → Alisher Navoi Cinema Palace is 78 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.