Moynaq

Moynaq, Uzbekistan

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Moynaq is a former fishing town in western Uzbekistan, best known for its haunting connection to the shrinking Aral Sea. Once a port on the sea’s southern shore, it is now surrounded by desert landscapes and rusting ship remains that mark the scale of the region’s environmental disaster. The town offers one of Central Asia’s most striking and sobering landscapes, where memory, loss, and desert silence shape the experience.

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