CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 347 km round trip from Tashkent - roughly 7 h 29 in the saddle. On the way it passes 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.
56 km on 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 42 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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83 km in you reach The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve. Next is back through Big Solar Furnace.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Big Solar Furnace write-up.
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back through Big Solar Furnace, late in the day. Next is Peoples’ Friendship Palace.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Peoples’ Friendship Palace write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Peoples’ Friendship Palace. That is the ride.
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 → 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.