$100 lighter after paying a local driver to take me on a neck jarring, bone shaking 12 hour (740 kilometre) day trip into the semi-autonimous region of Karakalpakstan with its blighted landscapes, blighted people and dying towns. Here is the gateway to the region and one of many police checkpoints
If he can get across then surely we can get across!!! - a 'temporary' pontoon bridge
The road to nowhere - and I'm praying we don't break down!
A solitary vehicle approaches on a stretch nearing Moynaq
The end of the road and the end of the World! - Moynaq and the tragedy of The Aral Sea - once the 4th largest inland sea in the world. The Soviets in their wisdom diverted two rivers to irrigate cotton fields. Subsequently the sea dried up. The Aral Sea once lapped against the signpost - now Moynaq a former fishing port stands 150 kilometres from the water..... check the irony of the fish still on the entrance sign to town
$100 lighter after paying a local driver to take me on a neck jarring, bone shaking 12 hour (740 kilometre) day trip into the semi-autonimous region of Karakalpakstan with its blighted landscapes, blighted people and dying towns. Here is the gateway to the region and one of many police checkpoints
If he can get across then surely we can get across!!! - a 'temporary' pontoon bridge
The road to nowhere - and I'm praying we don't break down!
A solitary vehicle approaches on a stretch nearing Moynaq
The end of the road and the end of the World! - Moynaq and the tragedy of The Aral Sea - once the 4th largest inland sea in the world. The Soviets in their wisdom diverted two rivers to irrigate cotton fields. Subsequently the sea dried up. The Aral Sea once lapped against the signpost - now Moynaq a former fishing port stands 150 kilometres from the water..... check the irony of the fish still on the entrance sign to town 
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