Monument "Aral'skoye More" — Attraction in Muynak

Personally travel to Karakalpakstan can be only imagined as travel to museum named after Savitckiy or Aral Sea, however I can surely inform that Karakalpakstan includes many other touristic places , of course majority of them historical areas , as ‘’ Mizdakhan’’ , ‘’ Gawirqala’’ or just ‘’ Khiva’’ . So in there I am in willing of describing one of the fascinating trip that we , students , made to some amazing touristic places of Karakalpakstan . Briefly the trip program covered investigations of Usturt plateau , Sudochi and all other byway places to Muynak region that is popular with its Aral Sea. The trip started at 7 o’clock in the morning by leaving Nukus with two convenient transports marked as Toyota that were offered by “Besqala tour” agency which provides the whole trip requirements as map, information about places , lunch and dinner according to length of trip , also cost is affordable for majority. The first destination was Usturt plateau which is located in the western part of Karakalpakstan. On the way to there you have to pass the regions Khodjeyli Khanlikol and Kungrad ( three dense-populated regions of Karakalpakstan) . Before arrival to destination along the way there is a little café called “Nayman chayxana” where visitors are able to have snacks and cold or hot drinks if you get hungry , additionally the price is comparably low . The next place in our list of program was Urga village where people dwelled approximately in 1924 especially Pole and Russian people. Actually we were just surprised by seeing the old ancient houses and hospital that were built with the help of reed and mud. There is the first fish factory of Muynak near the village where you may meet several fishermen that are catching fish from the lake. They can also share with you any information about these areas. Moreover the fish factory owned its own fridge that was constructed under the earth was used to save fish as fresh. Such interesting new information lead us to next trip tour And it was Muynak region (central area) that is well-known as vfishing town in Central Asia .Firstly we had lunch at home of one local citizen where we ate 2 traditional meal of Karakalpakstan. I consider that it is a superb chance of tasting or introducing with the culture, traditions, manners of local people. After then we made a visit to museum of Muynak and “Conjecture of ships” . Staring at Aral dessert we really wanted to re-fill the sea with water and imagined but in fact we cant do anything , we just took some photos in there for memory . Muynak region is itself one of the small region and remote one throughout the country. But the authority is trying to develop the area and create the touristic atmosphere to welcome visitors from any part of world.

Like this temp we went back to Nukus at about 16:00. And then our trip reached its end at 19:00 in Nukus. For all these opportunities I am really thankful for American Embassy that sponsored the whole project an the project itself “Next stop Nukus” By this way I just want to invite you to our country to see all these places with your own eyes. We will wait you in there. Thanks...

I guess after the long drive I expected more. Maybe the remains of a pier, the fish factory, etc but all there is is a few rusting ships that have been placed there. They even have built a walkway around them. I has the misconception that the boats had literally be frozen in time as the lake receeded but this does not appear to be the case. Disaster tourism wasn't really a thing back when the lake receeded so it just seems they are trying to capitalize on it now after much of what would have made it interesting has long...

The Aral Sea, once was one of the world's largest lakes but is now largely dried up.

The Soviets diverted two rivers that fed the sea for irrigation of cotton that the Uzbekistan region exports, with no contingency plans.

The outcome is the loss of many plant and animal species that once thrived here.

What you see here today are vast salt plains and abandoned ships, creating a surreal and sobering scene. The few remaining water bodies are heavily saline and support very...