Karakul (Tajikistan)

Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region · Tajikistan

Karakul (Tajikistan), Tajikistan
Photo: БорисМир, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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June to September
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A high, intensely blue lake sitting inside an ancient meteorite impact basin on the Pamir plateau. At over three and a half thousand meters, its shores are stark, treeless and often frozen well into spring.

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