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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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
From Parkent it runs 470 km to Parkent; allow about 8 h 08 of riding. The stops in between: The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve and back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
In the foothills of the Tian Shan, about an hour north-east of Tashkent, there is a building that looks as if it belongs in a science fiction film: a huge curved mirror, made of thousands of smaller mirrors, facing a field of tracking mirrors that follow the sun and focus its light onto a single point. This is the Big Solar Furnace near Parkent, built in the Soviet era in the 1980s, and still used for research into materials that can withstand extremely high temperatures.
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Big Solar Furnace is where the day begins. Next is 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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The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve comes up about 97 km into the recorded legs.
East of Tashkent, the Western Tian Shan rises in a series of ridges, and the Chatkal range is one of the most accessible of them, its snowy peaks visible from the capital on a clear day. The Chatkal State Biosphere Reserve protects a part of this landscape, with forests of juniper, walnut, maple and wild fruit trees, and alpine meadows above, home to Tian Shan brown bears, snow leopards, ibex, wild boar and many birds of prey. The Western Tian Shan, shared by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, is on the UNESCO list.
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about 237 km into the recorded legs you reach The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve. Next is back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve.
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Read the complete The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve write-up.
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back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve, late in the day. Next is Big Solar Furnace.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Big Solar Furnace write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Big Solar Furnace. That is the ride.
Big Solar Furnace → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 97 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 140 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 140 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → Big Solar Furnace is 97 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.