The Zhygylgan trench. The Kuzdakary lake
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Took place on: 2025-04-14
Some large rock was blasted with a bomb, now we have MILLIONS of rocks together with a heart-shaped lake
Of course, it was a joke about the bomb, but it does look like a mount destructed with much TNT.
Zhygylgan translates from Kazakh like "Fallen land" and is located around an eponymous cape.
It's like waves of rocks fall down to the hollow
1It's like waves of rocks fall down to the hollow
Border ravines are one of its aspects
3Border ravines are one of its aspects
Such a pit can be traced to tectonic plates' movement, when a lower layer of softer rock bassets, with an upper plate crumbling onto this formed hollow.
An old lighthouse is on the cape, not used anymore
1An old lighthouse is on the cape, not used anymore
It's not the only kind of such lighthouse -- there is one south of Saura
2
I think that's the best palette I ever picked
3I think that's the best palette I ever picked
Most certainly, a Tragopogon marginifolius
5Most certainly, a Tragopogon marginifolius
Now getting down to the trench.
An ideal place to chill and post some images
1An ideal place to chill and post some images
One can call this a dumpster even
3One can call this a dumpster even
Looks like a dinosaur's skull
7Looks like a dinosaur's skull
Caragana grandiflora is common in these places
1Caragana grandiflora is common in these places
A KAZAKH BUNKER
4A KAZAKH BUNKER
At the end of the road is Kuzdakary lake, aka Heart lake. It is as saline as Dead Sea. You can get here and lay on it, but that's a questionable joy, as you suffer from consequences of salt drying up on your body.
Easy to descend, hard to ascend. You have to stride this same half an hour going only up, which will be a challenge for an untrained person (like me, who also bare a 5 kg/11 pounds backpack).
