CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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A 507 km round trip from Yangiobod - roughly 10 h 30 in the saddle. It goes by way of Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity, Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B and back through Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,150 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available. It crosses from Uzbekistan into Kazakhstan - carry ID and check the toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
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 is where the day begins. Next is Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity, 99 km on.
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 comes up 99 km in. Next is Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B.
In the south of Kazakhstan, where the western spurs of the Tien Shan rise from the steppe, the Sairam-Ugam National Park protects a landscape of high mountains, deep valleys, juniper forests and alpine meadows. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Western Tien Shan, shared between Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, recognised for its exceptional biodiversity, including wild relatives of fruit trees such as apples, pears and walnuts, which are believed to be the ancestors of many cultivated varieties.
Read the complete Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B write-up.
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198 km in you reach Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B. Next is back through Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity, 98 km on.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity, late in the day. Next is 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 at The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve. That is the ride.
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.
Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity → Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B is 125 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
Sairam-Ugam State National Nature Park - B → back through Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity is 125 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through 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.