Aral Sea

Tara Fitzgerald visited what's left of the Aral Sea, once the world's fourth largest lake.

View of the Aral from our campsite

Working at our campsite overlooking the Aral

Sunrise over the Aral

Driving across the dried-up former seabed to reach the Aral's current shoreline

Boys fishing in lake on edge of Moynaq where the Amu Darya now ends, some 150kms from the Aral Sea

Moynaq's fish canning factory, which was finally closed in 1991

Salt covers the ground in a white crust around Moynaq and the surrounding areas

Ship graveyard

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