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Osh to Sary-Tash

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Recorded distance
186 km
Riding-time estimate
2 h 15
Journey
Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis

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Why this ride

A named mountain-road corridor with sustained elevation change and pass scenery. It links naturally to Pamir-Alay mountains.

Editorial context

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Access context

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Seasonal context

Jun-Sep

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. Osh

    Osh claims to be around three thousand years old, and for once the claim does not feel absurd. The city sits at the eastern edge of the Fergana valley, where the flat, hot cotton country runs into the first folds of the Pamir-Alay, and it has been a stopping point on the Silk Road for as long as caravans have crossed this region. With about two hundred thousand people, it is Kyrgyzstan's second city and, in temperament, the southern capital: louder, hotter, more Uzbek-influenced and rather prouder than Bishkek.

    Read the complete Osh write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Osh sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Sary-Tash.

  2. 2. Sary-Tash

    Sary-Tash is a handful of low houses and a few guesthouses at a crossroads in southern Kyrgyzstan, at about 3,100 metres, and it has a lot of importance for a place so small. Here the road from Osh, coming south over the passes, meets the route that turns east to China at Irkeshtam and the one that turns south to the Pamir Highway and Tajikistan. In the old days, caravans on the Silk Road passed through, and the Soviet Union later built the road that is still the main artery of the region.

    Read the complete Sary Tash write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

    May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

    Planning note

    Sary-Tash comes up 186 km in.

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