a 7th century buddhist monk wrote that Issyk-Kul has dragons. that's the whole post.

Pulled this out of an old thread on a Silk Road history group and I think it's cooler than half the lake-monster stuff that gets spammed. Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, that massive mountain lake that never freezes. The Kyrgyz have their own "jean," basically the local Nessie, fine. But the part that actua……