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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A 1397 km round trip from Tyul’kubas - roughly 24 h 05 in the saddle. The stops in between: Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B, Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part and back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Kazakhstan into Kyrgyzstan - carry ID and check the toll rules. It suits an unhurried touring pace.
In the far south of Kazakhstan, east of the city of Shymkent, the Western Tien Shan mountains rise abruptly from the steppe in a wall of snow-capped peaks, deep gorges and forests of juniper, walnut and wild fruit trees. The Sairam-Ugam National Park protects a large part of these mountains, and it is one of the components of the Western Tien Shan World Heritage site, listed by UNESCO in 2016 together with areas in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I is where the day begins. Next is Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B.
In the south of Kazakhstan, where the western spurs of the Tien Shan rise from the steppe, the Sairam-Ugam National Park protects a landscape of high mountains, deep valleys, juniper forests and alpine meadows. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Western Tien Shan, shared between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, recognised for its exceptional biodiversity, including wild relatives of fruit trees such as apples, pears and walnuts, which are believed to be the ancestors of many cultivated varieties.
Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B comes up about 347 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 699 km into the recorded legs you reach Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part. Next is back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B, late in the day. Next is Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I. That is the ride.
Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I → Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B is 347 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B → Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part is 352 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part → back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B is 352 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B → Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - I is 347 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.