Desert to the Aral Sea

Border crossing into Uzbekistan with 35°C
Once over the boardroom, we exchanged some money on the black market organised motorbike insurance and got a Sim card.
After a night in a dirty and overpriced hotel at the border, we then set off with our goal being the Aral see.

The Aral see is one of mankind’s biggest made environmental disasters, as this huge lake has almost been completely evaporated. Back in USSR times the water flows were altered for crop irrigation leaving entire villages hundreds of kilometres away from the coast of the sea.

To get there, we filled up the bikes with all canisters we had and drove 200km through the desert only to meet a beautiful canyon with a view on the lake where we stayed the nightRead more