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Sary-Tash to Irkeshtam

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Recorded distance
81 km
Riding-time estimate
1 h 01
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 and Chinese border.

Editorial context

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Access context

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Seasonal context

Jun-Sep

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

  1. 1. 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

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    Planning note

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

  2. 2. Irkeshtam

    Irkeshtam is the end of the line, or the start of the next one. It is a border post high in the Alay mountains, where the road from Osh and Sary-Tash reaches the frontier with China and the long way down to Kashgar begins. The setting is bare and enormous: a wide, treeless valley at the foot of the Trans-Alay range, with lines of trucks, a few buildings and mountains that keep going until they turn to blue haze. It is not a place to linger, but it is the kind of place that makes you think about distance.

    Read the complete Irkeshtam write-up.

    Recorded stop-planning note

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    Planning note

    Irkeshtam comes up 81 km in.

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