CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 658 km round trip from Tashkent - roughly 14 h 48 in the saddle. It goes by way of 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.
On the Tashkent metro, the stations are the sights. The system opened in 1977, the first in Central Asia, and the Soviet planners treated each stop as a small palace, with a theme, a colour scheme and local craftsmen to carry it out. Marble, carved alabaster, mosaics and chandeliers decorate the platforms, and the Kosmonavtlar station, the Cosmonauts, is one of the best, with a space theme: blue-grey tiles, circular lamps like planets and portraits of cosmonauts, a tribute to the space programme of which Uzbekistan was proud. For years, photography underground was banned, and the rule has now relaxed, so you can look around with a camera if you are polite.
Read the complete Kosmonavtlar Metro Station write-up.
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Kosmonavtlar Metro Station 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.
Read the complete The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve write-up.
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The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve comes up 80 km in. 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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159 km in you reach Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part. Next is back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve, late in the day. Next is Kosmonavtlar Metro Station.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Kosmonavtlar Metro Station write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Kosmonavtlar Metro Station. That is the ride.
Kosmonavtlar Metro Station → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
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 → 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 → Kosmonavtlar Metro Station is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.