By bolot | Published:
August 6, 2010
Shot today. Edited today. Broadcasted on the famous Yakutsk News Channel today. Daniel Robino is a superstar!
Daniel’s URLs: his website, his expedition facebook fan page
Also posted in Travel, Video | Tagged Kolyma Highway, Magadan, Road of Bones, roads, Russia, Siberia, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
August 4, 2010
Address: 21 Lenin Avenue (проспект Ленина, дом 21), Yakutsk/Russia.
How to get: From the airport by a taxi (~20 min, 150-250 rubles, max. 300 rubles, don’t pay more for the ride) or by buses # 4, 14, 109 (30-35 min, 15 rubles for one way, bus driver might ask to pay extra for huge luggages).
How to [...]
By bolot | Published:
July 23, 2010
Magadan drivers compiled the so-called road legend (description of roads) for the route Magadan – Yakutsk – Bolshoi Never – Chita. They gathered information on settlements, distances and availability of gas (fuel) stations, cafes, repairs shops, places to stay for nights, road police stations, roads condition, etc.
Everything is presented in one .xls file in [...]
Also posted in Locations, Travel | Tagged bike, car, Chita, GPS, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, maps, Never, road legend, Road of Bones, roads, Skovorodino, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
July 6, 2010
Though I am based in Yakutia, I am often asked about the availability of any GPS maps for the roads of Magadan Oblast. Well, here are a few links for downloading such files.
Also posted in Locations, Travel | Tagged bike, car, GisRX, GPS, GPS navigator, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, maps, Navitel, Road of Bones, roads |
By bolot | Published:
June 27, 2010
Here is information about where to stay for night in Khandyga. There are three hotels, but I recommend to stay at Nina & Nikolay Stenins’ place.
Back to hotels. One is called Presidential Hotel (the official name is different, but that’s the way, how people call it). It is a few-storeyed concrete hotel, where the [...]
By bolot | Published:
June 15, 2010
Watch the real Siberian video done on the Kolyma Highway (the Road of Bones) by Oisin Hughes, an Irish adventure biker, who yesterday made it to Magadan from Yakutsk just for 4 days only. In this vid you will see, how close to the edge he was biking in the Verkhoyansky mountain area. Fantastic and [...]
Also posted in Locations, Travel, Video | Tagged bike, biker, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, moto adventure, motorcycle, mountain, road condition, Road of Bones, roads, round-the-world, Russia, Siberia, summer, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
June 10, 2010
Oisin Hughes, an Irish Giant, is the first adventure biker of summer 2010, who arrived on his motobike to Yakutia on the way to Magadan. Yesterday he made it to Yakutsk from Tynda. He spent two days on the road. Really fast! This morning (pretty early, at 8.00 am) on my way to the office, [...]
Also posted in Travel | Tagged Aldan, bike, biker, ferry, Magadan, moto adventure, motorcycle, Nerungri, road condition, roads, round-the-world, Russia, Siberia, the Lena river, Travel, Tynda, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
June 4, 2010
“..Long Walk Plus Expedition has just started! Two weeks ago we set out from Yakutsk to Olekmnisk. Since that time we have dozens of adventures but what’s the most important we met extremely a lot of wonderful people. Every place we visited we were welcome with great hospitality. We traveled by bus, car, motor boats [...]
Also posted in Travel | Tagged Bestyakh, GULAG, Khorintsy, Kolyma, Olekminsk, Pokrovsk, Sanyjahtakh, Siberia, Sinsk, summer, the Lena river, The Long Walk, tourism, Travel, Uritskoe, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
May 7, 2010
An American Ian was asking me recently, “I am wondering how the lack of sunlight effects people in the long winter months. How many hours of daylight do you have, and it is dreadful? In summer, are the days extremely long? I am fascinated by your home.”
Also posted in General, Locations | Tagged Arctic, Arctic zone, daylight, life, Russia, Sakha, Siberia, summer, white night, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
April 24, 2010
Received questions from Montenegro’s Round-The-World Motorcycle Expedition (www.theridearound2010.com), that plans to go through Yakutia (Sakha), Magadan Oblast and Chukotka to Alaska. Here is what they wrote:
“Three of us will be traveling around the world on our motorcycles. Somewhere around July 10th we will be in Chita and from there we want to travel to Magadan. [...]
Also posted in Locations, Travel | Tagged airlines, Anadyr, bike, car, Expedition, flight, Kamchatka, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, motorcycle, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, summer, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, Yakutia, Yakutsk |