Muynak Ship Cemetery — Attraction in Republic of Karakalpakstan

If foreigners want to travel in Central Asia, they want to go Aral Sea and Muynak. Because it is known as environmental problem all over the world so that we also wanted to go there. Unfortunately, any kind of transportation can not go there. There are some traveling agencies like “Besqala Tour Agency”,which has suitable transports to travel in deserts such as Toyota Land Cruiser. It is fast and comfortable. If you want, agency can add apartment, breakfast, lunch and dinner. In my opinion, 1 day is not enough to travel to the Arall sea. Cost changes according to people’s plans and seasons. If you do not know where you want to go or do not know about places, agency will plan your traveling. However we had a 1 day traveling plan. About 7 am our cars came and we went. After 2 hour way we got hungry. There is a good place to have rest called “Nayman Shayxana” in Kungrad. There are good national foods, drinks and snacks. From this place it starts deserts. We went these places first time so that we asked a lot of things that we had interested. As a joke they pretended we had gotten lost in the desert. Then they said “We can go to Muynak with closed eyes”. In the desert there are a lot of animals like camels, deer, snakes, lizards and birds. About 1 pm we went to Ustyurt Plateau. On the top of the plateau we saw very big spaciousness. The height of the plateau is about 150 meters. This place is beautiful and amazing. We left there and passed “Raushan” canal which is connected with “Sudochie Lake”. Drivers described the meaning of “Sudochie”. It is translated from local language as “ Suwi Duzshi” (suw-water, duzshi-unleavened). I can not believe there is a place like this in the desert. The next place was an old Lighthouse near the “Sudochie”. The height of the lighthouse is about 5 meters. We climbed on it. Because of the autumn yellow reeds around the lake looks like beautiful. We tried to go closer to the lake. There is an old hospital, school, fish factory named “ Aral Vostok” and ancient destroyed straw houses. But houses are almost nuance. There is also cellarage. It is very dark. Entering with phone flash is good but bigger light will help to see clearly in it. In the past people used is as fridge to keep fish fresher. At 3 pm we went to the Muynak and went to lunch in local houses. The host was very friendly and prepared very well. After leaving houses in 15 minutes we went “Graveyard Ships”(local people called ships on the sand, because they think ships are not ships without water). We walked here and took photos and we left. At 7 pm we came back Nukus. I can say that watching in photos or videos can not give emotion like within with your eyes. It...

We started our tour from Khiva ! First day drove to Nukus , during the way we visited to chilpik kala fortress on the desert next to Amudaryo river then continued to Nukus! In Nukus we visited to Sovetaski Museum and some bazaar then stayed one night in Nukus. The next day I drove to Mizdakhan Necropolis in the early morning around 7:30 a.m after that to Muynak! We arrived around 12:30 p.m ! After that back to Khive ! Honestly the road is bad choose Chevrolet Cobalt or Lasetti type of car is better! If you email me i can help you to arrange this tour ! Feel free...

Very cool and very old ships from the ancient time so we start our tour with Central Park hostel Khiva they can order for everyone tour with very cheapest price than others and it was so great driver good the guy at reception very kind they can also find people in their hostel for sharing car for this tour and it will be very cheap than ordering single car We really recommend this tour with Central Park...