CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 341 km round trip from Tashkent - roughly 7 h 19 in the saddle. The stops in between: Big Solar Furnace, The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve and back through Big Solar Furnace. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
On April 26, 1966, an earthquake flattened much of old Tashkent, leaving tens of thousands homeless, and the Soviet Union responded by turning the city into a showcase. Architects and builders came from across the republics to rebuild, and the result was a capital of wide avenues, big squares and concrete modernism, with buildings that mixed Soviet geometry with Central Asian patterns, blue tiles, carved screens and domes. The Central Exhibition Hall of the Academy of Arts belongs to that world, a hall for displays of painting and sculpture, standing in a city that has since added glass towers and new mosques but keeps these older shapes as part of its character.
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Central Exhibition Hall of the Academy of is where the day begins. Next is Big Solar Furnace.
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 comes up 40 km in. 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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80 km in you reach The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve. Next is back through Big Solar Furnace.
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back through Big Solar Furnace, late in the day. Next is Central Exhibition Hall of the Academy of.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Central Exhibition Hall of the Academy of write-up.
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Back at Central Exhibition Hall of the Academy of. That is the ride.
Central Exhibition Hall of the Academy of → Big Solar Furnace is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Big Solar Furnace → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → back through Big Solar Furnace is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Big Solar Furnace → Central Exhibition Hall of the Academy of is 53 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.