CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 657 km round trip from Tashkent - roughly 14 h 46 in the saddle. It goes by way of The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve, Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part and back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,700 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Uzbekistan into Kyrgyzstan - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
Long before Tashkent became a Soviet showpiece, it was a stop on the caravan road, and the State Museum of History tries to tell that long story. Under the name Chach, the oasis was known to the ancient Persians and Greeks, and later to Chinese travellers, who called it Shi. It lay on the Silk Road, on the route that led from Samarkand across the Syr Darya into the Fergana valley and the Chinese lands beyond. Sogdian merchants carried silk, glass, metalwork and religious ideas along it, and the museum's collections include coins, ceramics, carved stone and remains from sites across Uzbekistan, from the Bronze Age to the Timurid empire.
Read the complete State Museum of History write-up.
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State Museum of History is where the day begins. 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.
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The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve comes up 80 km in. 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.
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159 km in you reach Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part. Next is back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve, late in the day. Next is State Museum of History.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete State Museum of History write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at State Museum of History. That is the ride.
State Museum of History → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part → back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 82 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → State Museum of History is 77 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.