Man makes such disasters
Man makes such disasters Uzbekistan Diary -2 I shall continue from last week’s post where we were to board the Tashkent-Urgunch-Khiva-Andijan train. The 14-hour train journey brought us to Khiva, a UNESCO heritage place around 11 a.m. The day turned out to be a little disappointing, so I shall share it with you next week. Today, however, let me tell you what we did the following day because Khiva was our connecting point for going to Aral Sea, a lake ‘formerly’ in (northern part of) Uzbekistan and (southern part of) Kazakhstan, which dried up due to over-exploitation. Many of us do not even know it existed. What remains is a large patch of dry arid land and what is called a cemetery of ships . We started at 6.00 am for the day-long journey from Khiva, in Khorezm region of Uzbekistan, to Karakalpakstan. The first stop after nearly three hours on the 370 km long journey (one side) was the Chilpik Kala Fortress. It is a round mud-walled structure on a small hill. Al...