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Uzbekistan

Aral Sea & Moynaq

A seabed turned desert, the ship cemetery and the Ustyurt cliffs.

Moynaq was a port town once — today the water is 150 kilometres away. The rusting ships left in the sand are a monument to the greatest ecological disaster of the 20th century. The Ustyurt cliffs and a night under the desert sky make this the trip's most powerful stretch.

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