• Lake Issyk Kul
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    Interesting Things – Lake Issyk Kul

    This peaceful, serene waterscape in Kyrgyzstan holds for me at least two interesting facts. Not that the water is said never to freeze, despite the lake being surrounded by snow-capped mountains (although that is kind of interesting). Or that the shores of the lake are full of health resorts (although this will become ironically interesting soon). I’m mostly interested in its connections to plague (see?) and drowned cities (you can make you’re own guesses as to what kind of story I’m working on right now). Plague on the Silk Road Historians think that Lake Issyk Kul, being a popular stopover point on the Silk Road in medieval times, was the…