CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: planning record, not independently verified geometry.
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Distances and riding times are planning figures. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
The stops in between: The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve, Big Solar Furnace, Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity and back through Big Solar Furnace. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,650 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
East of Tashkent, the Western Tian Shan rises in a series of ridges, and the Chatkal range is one of the most accessible of them, its snowy peaks visible from the capital on a clear day. The Chatkal State Biosphere Reserve protects a part of this landscape, with forests of juniper, walnut, maple and wild fruit trees, and alpine meadows above, home to Tian Shan brown bears, snow leopards, ibex, wild boar and many birds of prey. The Western Tian Shan, shared by Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, is on the UNESCO list.
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 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 about 95 km into the recorded legs. 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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about 161 km into the recorded legs you reach Big Solar Furnace. Next is Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity, 95 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, about halfway. 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 sits at 372 km, about halfway. 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 comes up about 465 km into the recorded legs.
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.
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve closes the day.
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → Big Solar Furnace is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Big Solar Furnace → Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity is 119 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Tashkent Modernist Architecture. Modernity → back through Big Solar Furnace is 119 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Big Solar Furnace → back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 66 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve → The Chatkal State Biosphere Nature Reserve is 95 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.