Aydarkul
Good to know
- Best time to go
- April to June, September to October
- Budget
- $
- Accessibility
- not-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
Aydarkul is a large artificial lake formed in the 1960s when Soviet irrigation works flooded a natural depression in the Kyzylkum Desert. It now stretches roughly 250 kilometres, providing an incongruous expanse of blue water amid the red and ochre sand landscape. Yurt camps on the shore offer access to the surrounding dunes and an opportunity to observe migratory waterbirds that have colonised the lake's shallow margins.
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