CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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From Yangiobod it runs 337 km to Yangiobod; allow about 7 h 12 of riding. It goes by way of Big Solar Furnace, Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity and back through Big Solar Furnace. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 1,950 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
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 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 38 km in. Next is Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity, 38 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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76 km in you reach Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity. 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 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 → Big Solar Furnace is 27 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Big Solar Furnace → Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity → back through Big Solar Furnace is 49 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through 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.