Karakalpakstan: The Place You Never Knew Existed

wow we are in dusty mucus mucus what's it called hey salaam wow friendly bun so far let's check it out i've got to tell you that we're now crossed over into an autonomous republic called karakal pakistan which means salam and those are the karakal pakistanis which means um land of the black hatted people oh my god i'm a bit self-conscious there we go more kimchi they love the kimchi here wow kimchi wow they love kimchi and old carol kaopaksam who knew right where am i even going what am i even doing i don't know i really feel like for the first time i'm really in central asia there's nothing modern about this place whatsoever wow uzbekski film i'm going to buy an uzbek porn i mean uzbek film wow i'll be watching this when i get back to my apartment in europe looks saucy well anyway as much as i would love to hang around the markets of um nukas we've gotta push on we've gotta get up to moynak which is the old fishing village or the old fishing town on the banks of the arrow sea so um we're going to push on up there hello wow we got hello hello wow friendly people here in lucas all right let's get the hell out of here anyway wow i'm getting in the cab out of the dusty old nuka sand to the bus station wow he's loving it i've got the greatest driver ever maybe he wants a porno [Music] wow i've got the maddest driver in lucas he's in a rush wow what there's a soviet you don't just pass a soviet mosaic without checking it out we're gonna go and do that change of plans the arrow sea can wait for a second check this out we've got an old soviet bloody message in nucas underneath the soviet hotel let's check it out i'm becoming the world's greatest connoisseur on soviet mosaics is he still there not driven off in my bag we've got an uzbek woman we've got a dude and another dude we got families there's someone taking apples from a tree look they put the apples in the bag there's a little kid with a butterfly there's someone bringing in the harvest wow it's an awesome one i like it it's a big one and it survived intact after all these years and here is when it was made 1979. wow and these are the names of the people who did it think of the people from lucas who made this how much time it took the detail and these are their names i can't read okay we've arrived at the bus station where we're going to try and find a bus up to moynak another 200 kilometers it's a big country we're going to go and jump on it wow all the moynakians super sure yes called go hard come on you showed up brilliant uh wow on this bus no one is speaking ozzbek they're speaking their local language the black-hatted language so this is the first time that we've met it kazakhskiy for this for um hardcore kazakhstan my new friend my new friend and i've just learned that in the character language how are you is i found a wife on the bus they've set me up with my new wife from um we're going to be together hello mama papa tree russia um we've pretty much arrived wow downtown mauinak check it out where are we the end of the world and there's a bus full of boy nakians is this it is this it is this frankie please have a room for a lonely foreigner in muniac come on you can do it oh what do you reckon then 15 a night got two rooms me and the new wife let's check out the view from the window ah beautiful beautiful moyna nice abandoned building in the background and a lot of sand hmm if you had stood on these spots as late as the late 70s you would have seen water all the way stretching out across the horizon and that's because we're here on what was the shores of the aral sea let's go down to the sea bed and explore a little bit more for decades these ships of the soviet union would head out in the mornings into the azure waters the arrow sea to get their daily catch in the evenings they'd return to port send the fish to the canning factory from where it would be sent all over the former empire and life was good in little moynak they had the fishing industry they had the canning factory its future was secure until someone had an idea why don't we greenify the deserts of uzbekistan and grow vast amounts of cotton for the soviet industry someone said good idea they said but where do we get the water from to irrigate the deserts from the rivers that flow into the aral sea someone said and so dams and irrigation channels were constructed that diverted the river waters away from the aral sea and instead to the central cotton fields of uzbekistan leaving the town of moynak and its fishing fleet hundreds of kilometers from the water's edge and that's the story of knack in the aral sea hope you enjoyed the journey until next time adios

Channel: Daily Bald

Views: 2,166,157

Rating: 4.9176116 out of 5

Keywords: Nukus, Uzbekistan, bald and bankrupt, daily bald, aral sea

Id: cTKrYay1FMU

Length: 12min 46sec (766 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 30 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/RaidersofTheCrusade]

Bald is dropping so many videos on his new channel lately. Hopefully he still puts something on his main channel sooner or later.

[u/AnivaBay]

Actually been there - the Aral Sea is quite the striking sight to behold.

[u/BeExcellentPartyOn]

Here's a Google Maps photosphere on the exact boat Bald was standing on at the end of the video if anyone's interested.

[u/WE_FAM_NOW]

Great mini doc. Dude making the entire bus laugh haha

[u/Johann_Hamburg]

I wonder what movie he bought there.