And who was Ella Maillart? The cliché ‘the last of the great classic women travellers,’ while true and deserved still falls short as a descriptive.
Twenty minutes later we were at what is now known as the Moynaq ship cemetery. The level of the now barren Aral Sea was somewhere
At the extreme eastern end of Issyk-kul, the vast lake whose northern shores we saw in 2017, lay the town of Karakol. Not far from
