The Bishkek tourist company offers unique jeep tours, during which you can visit the city of Muynak in the Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan, the most remote small settlement from the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, with a population of about 18,000 people.

In the past, until the 1980s, Muynak was a thriving fishing port city on the southern shore of the Aral Sea.

However, everything changed in the 1980s when the sea began to rapidly shrink. The water retreated further and further from the city, fish disappeared, and moored ships remained stranded in the port. This led to the creation of the astonishing “Ship Graveyard” amidst the exposed seabed. The former bottom of the Aral Sea is now overgrown with saxaul and has turned into a full-fledged desert, the Aralkum, the “White Sands.”

We invite you to embark on thrilling jeep tours with the Bishkek tourist company to see with your own eyes the unique “Ship Graveyard” in Muynak and feel the scale of this planetary phenomenon.

Access the City of Muynak (clickable link).