LAKE KUL KURBAN

Five kilometres beyond the village, at 1 800 m above sea level, Kul Kurban, the lake of the victims, is a walking destination, to walk on foot where the cable car works. The lake appeared in 1766, following an earthquake. Two mountains collapsed on a village, killing its entire population, and creating a vast depression where water came to accumulate. A new landslide almost wiped out the lake in 1998. The lake fills only at the time of the melting of the snow, and looks like the rest of the time to a mini desert in altitude, where there are some paltry pedal. The surroundings of this lake, which was an excellent starting point for many walks, are now forbidden, as are access to the surrounding mountains. In order to protect the region from the fundamentalist land mines, anti-personnel mines were set up around Chakhimardan, as well as around other Uzbek enclaves in Kyrgyz territory, Soukh and Voroukh.