CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 567 km round trip from Tashkent - roughly 12 h 23 in the saddle. The stops in between: Big Solar Furnace, The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve, back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve and back through Big Solar Furnace. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
This part of the ride is 56 km of Peoples’ Friendship Palace → Big Solar Furnace.
The Palace of Peoples' Friendship is a Soviet-era building of Tashkent that rewards a slow look, and the name itself is a period piece. Friendship of the peoples was a standard phrase of Soviet ideology, a promise that the many nationalities of the union lived in harmony, and Tashkent, with its mix of Uzbeks, Russians, Tatars, Koreans and others, was held up as the model of it. The palace, a large concert and congress hall in the modernist style, carries the ambitions of the 1960s and 1970s, when the earthquake rebuilding turned the city into a laboratory of Soviet design, and the structure stands out among the plane trees with its confident, geometric form.
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Peoples’ Friendship Palace 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 41 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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81 km in you reach The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve. Next is The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve.
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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The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve, about halfway. Next is back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve.
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back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve sits at 163 km, about halfway. Next is back through Big Solar Furnace.
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Read the complete Big Solar Furnace write-up.
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back through Big Solar Furnace comes up 203 km in. Next is Peoples’ Friendship Palace.
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Read the complete Peoples’ Friendship Palace write-up.
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Peoples’ Friendship Palace closes the day.
Peoples’ Friendship Palace → Big Solar Furnace is 56 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 → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 39 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 39 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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 → Peoples’ Friendship Palace is 56 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.