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| These are ships that have been abandoned and left in the Aralkum Desert. |
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| The Aralkum desert was not always a desert— dry and rugged as it is now with not a single soul roving its surface. The wind from the violent dust storms picks up the salty sand that now covers the ground. In fact this area was once the fourth-largest lake in the world. |
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| Fifty years ago, the Aralkum desert was known as the Aral Sea. A lake half the size of England that sat between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. The sea was home to a fishing industry that produced 50,000 tons of fish which fed more than 100,000 people across nine different countries. Now the ships provide shelter for the ships of desert -the camels who seek shelter from the sun. |
