By bolot | Published:
September 27, 2009
Rejoyce, everyone, who wishes to try the Road of Bones to/from Magadan. Magadan is not the deadend. It is, actually, one of your enroute waypoints.
The only thing you need to know is how to ship your vehicle from/to Magadan by sea. The second thing to remember is that a Turkish driver Ali Eric (www.istanbul2instanbul.com) [...]
Also posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Tagged 4WD, car, Expedition, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, motocycle, North America, Road of Bones, roads, sea, shipment, Siberia, tourism, transfers, Travel, vehicle, Vladivostok, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
September 12, 2009
Walter Colebatch, the UK Sibirsky Extreme moto adventure project leader, returned to Yakutia from Baikal. He said good bye to his fellows Tony and Terry, who went back home to England. At that moment, he thought “I still harboured a burning ambition to get to the Arctic Circle in Asia… I just had enough [...]
Also posted in Answers, Editorial, Locations, Photo, Travel | Tagged Aikhal, Anabar, bike, biker, car, Chernyshevsky, Cold, Editorial, Expedition, fuel, Lensk, maps, Mirny, Morkoka, motorcycle, Photo, rates, roads, Siberia, Sibirsky Extreme, the Lena river, Travel, Udachny, Ust-Kut, Viluisk, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 4, 2009
Three Valleys Innovation Technopark invites international companies to join the permanent online exhibition “New Technologies and Innovations for the Economy of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)”.
Also posted in Announcement, Answers, Economy, Events, Press Releases | Tagged contact, Economy, Editorial, event, exhibition, innovation, tenchnology, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
August 21, 2009
Maybe, it’s a little bit late at this point. Navigation on the Lena River, that usually lasts from early June till late September, is coming to the end. However, I think the following info will appear to be useful in the future.
I found out two alternative ways of traveling the Lena River on parts Ust-Kut [...]
Also posted in Answers, Locations, Photo, Travel | Tagged barge, boat, hydrofoil vessel, Lensk, Olekminsk, Photo, rates, schedule, summer, taxi, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, Ust-Kut, vessel, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
August 20, 2009
Received two almost similar requests from German and Indian travelers. The first one asked about the best way of getting to Yakutsk from Seoul (South Korea). Another was curious about the flying route from Almaty (Kazakhstan).
The same issue I had already had with another international guests who eventually arrived to Yakutsk through Novosibirsk. And you [...]
Also posted in Answers, General, Locations, Travel | Tagged airlines, Airport, Almaty, Beijing, ferry, flight, Hong Kong, Novosibirsk, online booking, online itinerary, online stores, online tickets, rates, schedule, Seoul, Siberia, Siberia Airlines, Tolmacheva Airport, Travel, Yakutia, Yakutia Airlines, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
July 27, 2009
This question was asked by Swiss photographers Mathias Braschler & Monika Fischer, who spent the whole last Saturday on searching a person with a tumbledown house for the forth portrait. Ad notam, they currently work on the worldwide photo project about people directly affected by climate change. So, they were hungry at midnight in the [...]
By bolot | Published:
July 23, 2009
Checked my mail archive and found out the answer to the question received from a globetrotter. He asked about the availability of flight from Magadan to Anadyr.
That inquiry regarded to Magadan Oblast! Not about Yakutia. But… I wasn’t surprised at all. I am writing much about the way to Magadan, so people thought, maybe, [...]
Also posted in Answers, Locations | Tagged airlines, Alaska, Anadyr, Chukotka, flight, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, rates, schedule, Travel, Vladivostok, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
July 7, 2009
Received a big portion of questions from a UK-based TV documentary production company. A production executive wrote in his request:
I’m researching a history/travel series about women travellers, their journeys and achievements. One story I’ve been looking at is about [a Brit nurse] Kate Marsden who travelled on horse back to help the Lepers in the [...]
Also posted in Answers, History, Travel | Tagged horse, housing, hunting, Kate Marsden, rates, roads, shamans, Travel, Viluisk, Vilyuisk, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
June 1, 2009
At long last, I managed to get 2009 Summer Hydrofoil Vessels Timetable for those, who expressed the strong wish to travel along the Lena River from Ust-Kut to Yakutsk. This is a long voyage, I need to warn you.
Also posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Tagged boat, hydrofoil vessel, Lensk, Olekminsk, Osetrovo, Peleduj, rates, river port, schedule, the Lena river, timetable, transportation, Travel, Ust-Kut, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
May 28, 2009
Received a message from the U.S.:
I think your website is a great service to travellers who are interested in visiting Yakutia! I have been to Yakutsk before and love the nature. After looking though the internet and your site I still have two questions that I couldn’t find answered. Both of them have to do [...]
Also posted in Answers, Travel | Tagged airlines, car, contact, Expedition, flight, Magadan, north, rates, roads, schedule, taxi, the Lena river, Tiksi, tourism, Travel, winter, winter road |
