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had found itself in the basket and struck when the daughter reached for the fruit . In protecting his daughter from death , the khan had prevented her from living . His distraught cries brought down part of the tower reducing its height from forty-five to the now twenty-five metres .
Displaying relics of the past city , including many headstones left as monuments to the fallen , ironically none mentioning the persons name or family , a simple carving resembling the person is all that remains , done so that the departed ’ s headstone could provide no clue to enemies as to the identity and therefore the family , forms part of the UNESCO Silk Roads Network of the Chang ’ an Tianshan Corridor World Heritage site . Two other Kyrgyz properties fall within this designated region .
Rounding the far eastern edge of Issyk Kul is the town of Karakol , and the “ grave of the traveller ”. Karakol lies in the shadow of the Tian-Shan mountains that border Kyrgyzstan from China . The “ traveller ” is in fact Russian geographer , Nikolay Przhevalsky , an explorer who became fascinated with the region of central Asia . Through numerous expeditions
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