UZBEKISTAN · SILK ROAD
Nukus & Moynaq (Karakalpakstan)
Best time
Apr–May · Sep–Oct
Getting there
Flight from Tashkent · 1.5 h (to Nukus)
UNESCO
Tentative List candidate
What to see
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A first look
A land of strong impressions and deep contrasts for lovers of art and extreme eco-tourism. It safeguards priceless treasures of painting and holds the dramatic Ship Graveyard on the bed of a vanished sea.
What to see
Savitsky Museum
The famous “Louvre in the desert” holding the world’s second-largest collection of Russian avant-garde.
Moynaq Ship Graveyard
Skeletons of ships stranded on the open-air bed of the Aral Sea.
Mizdakhan Necropolis
An ancient city of the dead with underground mausoleums and the “World Clock”.
Ustyurt Plateau
Snow-white chalk canyons and otherworldly sheer escarpments.
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