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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
It goes by way of Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve, Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part and back through Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
This is a remote place, and I should say so plainly.
Read the complete Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas is where the day begins. Next is Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve.
In the far west of Kyrgyzstan, where the Chatkal range runs along the edge of the Fergana valley and the border with Uzbekistan, a steep, forested set of mountains shelters the Padysha-Ata reserve. It is a strictly protected nature area, one of several state reserves in the country, and its purpose is the plain business of keeping a piece of the western Tian Shan as it was. The slopes carry forest and mountain meadow, rivers rush down from snowfields, and the peaks above are high enough to carry glaciers.
Read the complete Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve comes up about 61 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 188 km into the recorded legs you reach Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part. Next is back through Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve, late in the day. Next is Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas. That is the ride.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas → Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve → Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part → back through Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve is 127 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve → Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas is 61 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.