Purple Travel

[October 11 2017]

A trip to Kyrgyzstan

Kaji-Say is a small seaside resort city. The lake on which it is situated has been a destination for Kirghiz, Kazakhs and Russian tourists since the 70’s. A few hotels and old infrastructures that still have communist vibes are located on the beach.
But the soviet union let another legacy to the town : just behind the touristic facilities, on the mountains, remains a huge pile of uranium wastes. At each rainy period, this pile threatens to pour some radioactive elements into the lake and contaminate the whole region.

Text and photo Olivia Blondel

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