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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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
The stops in between: Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part, The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve and back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
The Western Tien Shan comes down to meet the steppe here, in the far south of Kazakhstan, and the Sairam-Ugam National Park protects a big piece of that collision. Snowy ridges rise above deep valleys with rushing rivers, forests of juniper, birch and wild fruit trees, and high meadows full of flowers in early summer. The park is part of the Western Tien Shan World Heritage Site, shared with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan and listed in 2016, a region known as one of the places where many fruit trees, including wild apples, walnuts and apricots, have their origins. The wildlife includes snow leopards, ibex, bears and the endemic Menzbier's marmot.
Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S is where the day begins. 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.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part comes up about 246 km into the recorded legs. 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.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 483 km into the recorded legs you reach The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve. Next is back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
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.
back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part, late in the day. Next is Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S. That is the ride.
Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S → Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part is 246 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 237 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part is 237 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part → Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - S is 246 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.