CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Tashkent it runs 339 km to Tashkent; allow about 7 h 15 of riding. 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.
The best Orientalist painter of Turkestan was a Russian who hated war. Vasily Vereshchagin came to Tashkent in the 1860s as an artist attached to the Russian army, and he painted the bazaars, the beggars and the mosques of Central Asia with a precision that shocked his patrons, and then went on to paint scenes of battle that showed the dead as they were. His canvases are among the treasures of Russian art, and their subject was the world that lies around Tashkent today. The State Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan holds paintings of this kind, along with works by Russian and European artists, and a good collection of Uzbek applied art.
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State Museum of Arts 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 40 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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79 km in you reach The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve. Next is back through Big Solar Furnace.
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Read the complete Big Solar Furnace write-up.
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back through Big Solar Furnace, late in the day. Next is State Museum of Arts.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete State Museum of Arts write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at State Museum of Arts. That is the ride.
State Museum of Arts → Big Solar Furnace is 52 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 → State Museum of Arts is 52 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.