CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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652 km from Salor to Salor, about 14 h 40 of riding. On the way it passes 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. It was put together for the scenery rather than the shortest line.
At 5.22 in the morning on 26 April 1966, an earthquake struck the old city of Tashkent and flattened much of it. Within days, architects and engineers from across the Soviet Union arrived to rebuild, and the capital of Uzbekistan became a showcase for Soviet modernism, with wide avenues, big squares, concrete and glass blocks, and a new kind of public art. The older mud-brick lanes were largely lost, but the new architecture has a boldness of its own, now loved by a younger generation of photographers and architects.
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Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity 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.
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The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve comes up 77 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.
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155 km in you reach Besh-Aral State Nature Reserve - main part. Next is back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve.
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back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve, late in the day. Next is Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity, 77 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity write-up.
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Back at Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity. That is the ride.
Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 72 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 → Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity is 72 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.