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.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
It goes by way of Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas, Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p and back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 3,250 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Kyrgyzstan into Kazakhstan - carry ID and check the toll rules. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
Sary-Chelek means yellow bucket, and nobody quite agrees on why. The name belongs to a lake in the Chatkal range of south-western Kyrgyzstan, a deep, clear body of water at the bottom of a forested valley, which was formed when a landslide, probably set off by an earthquake, dammed the river long ago. The water takes on shades from emerald to deep blue depending on the light and the season, and the shore is fringed with spruce, with walnut and apple woods on the lower slopes, and meadows full of flowers in June. It lies at about 1,900 metres above the sea, and the cold clean air has a scent of pine.
Read the complete Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve is where the day begins. Next is Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas.
This is a remote place, and I should say so plainly.
Read the complete Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas comes up about 303 km into the recorded legs. Next is Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p.
Kazakhstan's oldest nature reserve sits where the western end of the Tien Shan meets the steppe, in the Talas Alatau range, and it was set aside as early as 1926. Aksu-Jabagly is a country of steep limestone gorges, high meadows and snowy ridges that climb above three thousand metres, and it forms part of the UNESCO listing for the Western Tien-Shan. The Aksu canyon cuts through the heart of it, with walls hung with juniper, and on some rock faces you can find petroglyphs left by herders and hunters thousands of years ago.
Read the complete Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 602 km into the recorded legs you reach Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p. Next is back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas, late in the day. Next is Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve. That is the ride.
Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve → Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas is 303 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas → Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p is 299 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Aksu-Jabagly State Nature Reserve - main p → back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas is 299 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas → Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 303 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.