Christoph Rehage's video: THE FORGOTTEN VILLAGE Timelapse

I took this footage in and around the village of Kaji-Say (Кажы-Сай in Kyrgyzstan, also transliterated as Kadji Say) in September 2014. GPS-location: 42° 8'28.22"N 77°10'46.45"E When I arrived and made my first step off the bus, a Russian guy said "welcome to the USSR" and smirked. And he turned out to be right: there was a certain morbid fascination to it all. I got a room in a sanatorium that had orange, smelly water coming out of the shower and attracted guests precisely for this reason (there was supposed to be "radon" in the water, whatever that meant). The tourism season was already over though, I was practically the only guest in the house. The next few days I spent my time wandering around on the shores of the lake and in the village of Kaji-Say. The people were very friendly. I heard about the uranium mine that used to be there, and about the industry that had left after the fall of the Soviet Union. There were not many young people who had been able to resist the call of the city. I found a tiny restaurant right next to the lake, and I would go there every day to have lunch or dinner, and when the weather was right I would plunge into the cool waves of Issyk-kul. It felt like magic: sunrays piercing through the water, white mountains towering over me, everything suddenly making sense somehow. I would wait until I felt thoroughly cold, then lay down on the sand and let the sun dry off the water on my body. There was a bottle of vodka in my room. Sometimes I would take it up to the roof of the sanatorium and sit there, overlooking the beautiful village. And I would think to myself: why was it that everything here seemed so forgotten? Drop by on my site: ▶ http://www.crehage.com or add me on FB: ▶ https://facebook.com/crehage on TW: ▶ https://twitter.com/crehage INFO: ▶Shot with: DSLR 15mm/55mm ▶Soundtrack: Phil Gardiner - "We Are Nowhere" If you have any ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, please refer to: ▶▶▶ http://crehage.com/faq or get the GOOGLE EARTH FILE here (1KB): ▶ http://www.thelongredline.com/TLW.kmz CONNECT WITH ME: ▶OFFICIAL SITE: http://crehage.com ▶FACEBOOK: https://facebook.com/crehage ▶TWITTER: https://twitter.com/crehage ▶WEIBO: https://weibo.com/leikexiaoliumang ▶▶▶SUBSCRIBE to Christoph Rehage: http://bit.ly/1BcQ6Ol REISEERZÄHLUNG "THE LONGEST WAY" (PIPER/MALIK) ERHÄLTLICH: ▶Amazon: http://amzn.to/177iCpG ▶Hugendubel: http://bit.ly/1rJj5rc ▶Thalia: http://bit.ly/14hoJXr BILDBAND "CHINA ZU FUSS" (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) ERHÄLTLICH: ▶Amazon: http://amzn.to/1xAd7ve ▶Hugendubel: http://bit.ly/1zZqcP4 ▶Thalia: http://bit.ly/1BqvYWR