Goodbye Aral Sea
May 9th 2016 <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Day 101 Thursday 28th April 2016 – Khiva to Nukus
Leaving about 9.00am today so up at a reasonable time, thank goodness because our room’s window opens onto the balcony where breakfast is served and the tour group got out there just before the start of breakfast and rearranged tables and started singing and laughing - luc
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Kangaroos and the stare bears!
Fabulous adventures at the poor, dying Aral Sea and the wonderful cemeteries of the dead cities! Shocking the before and after maps--what a huge environmental disaster! When you said the lake was saltwater and drying up, I imagined it might leave great salt flats like Uyuni. Too bad it's dirt and chemicals--what a hard life for those left! Best wishes for smooth sailing across into Kazakhstan!