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Kara Kum Desert - 1989

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Turkmenistan Picture by Jacek Pałkiewicz
Travel story: Kara Kum Desert - 1989

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BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT IN TURKMENISTAN

A message scrawled in peeling white paint on the rusting side of one of the many fishing boats stranded on the sand summed up the situation : "Godd-bye Aral!"
I looked upon the tragid death of Lake Aral, one of the Soviet Union's greatest ecological disasters, with some bitterness. We in the west know almost nothing of this environmental catastrophe. In just twenty years the lake's water level... More

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