In the southwest of Boysun, in the mountains on the border with Turkmenistan there is an area of ancient salt mines. Homkon kishlak is located here, about 100 kilometers from the district centre. УHomkonФ means Уa place having everythingФ. Administratively, small villages at the springs (bulok): Homchibulok, Tuinikbulok, Kamishbulok, Beshbulok and Hatak kishlak, belong to Homkon. Homkon has about one hundred houses. The population of Uzbek-Qungrads of the Korakolpok and Tanghimush clans. The Uzbek-Qatagans who live in the kishlak of Hatak moved here from the Aral Sea two or three centuries ago. Mountain springs flow into the lake of Kon beshbulok (Уa place of five springsФ). The depth of the lake is more than 70 meters. According to the oldest inhabitants of the kishlak there was no lake here in the past. The people lived here and mined the salt. A heavenly messenger came to them and ordered them to leave the place urgently. When the people had left, water welled up out the ground and the lake appeared. The lake, whose lower waters are salty, breeds fish. The surrounding archa woods are rich in fallow deer, hares, foxes and wolves (earlier even leopards lived here). Homkon is considered a land of horsemen. Until now the horse games of УqupkariФ are arranged on days of weddings and circumcision (Ughil tui). The art of the folk storytellers Ц УbakhshiФ Ц is highly esteemed. They perform epic legends (dastans); accompanied by the dombra. The most famous is National bakhsi of Uzbekistan Abdunazar Poenov.