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.
On the way it passes Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas, Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve 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. A steady touring day rather than a sprint.
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.
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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.
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Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas comes up about 296 km into the recorded legs. Next is Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve.
In the far west of Kyrgyzstan, where the Chatkal range runs along the edge of the Fergana valley and the border with Uzbekistan, a steep, forested set of mountains shelters the Padysha-Ata reserve. It is a strictly protected nature area, one of several state reserves in the country, and its purpose is the plain business of keeping a piece of the western Tian Shan as it was. The slopes carry forest and mountain meadow, rivers rush down from snowfields, and the peaks above are high enough to carry glaciers.
Read the complete Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
about 530 km into the recorded legs you reach Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve. 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 296 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas → Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve is 234 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Padysha-Ata State Nature Reserve → back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas is 234 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - Shandalas → Sary-Chelek State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 296 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.