Water Unites

Locations where photos were taken
or ants have remained. The park
manager died on the island in
1998; his grave is on the island.
The family managed after years
to leave the island.
If you were travelling from
Barsakelmes a few hundred kilometers
to the southwest, you
would come to Moynak, a town
on the Uzbek side of the sea.
Tourists would visit it during
the Soviet era. The warm, sandy
beaches were particularly popular.
Today, travellers come to see
the ship skeletons on the Aral Sea bed. The old fish-processing plant is still there, but has
been idle for decades. The local museum displays paintings and artifacts, which give testimony
of the once flourishing port city, from where millions of fish cans were exported
all over the communist world.
Photo essay Aral Sea
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