Category Archives: Travel

How To: Cutting frozen reindeer meat in Yakutsk, Yakutia/Siberia

By bolot | Published: February 24, 2010

See how frozen carcass reindeer meat will be cut into small pieces. Photos and video were done by Artem Petukhov and Katya Ipatieva (they stand behind the Adventure in Yakutia blog http://adv.yktv.ru, in Russian) specially for eYakutia.com . Thanks, guys.
Yeah, we, Yakutians, love meat. We eat them a lot. To save money, we usually buy [...]

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Quick tips: Cycling from Yakutsk to Magadan by the Road of Bones

By bolot | Published: February 24, 2010

Marat Zalyalov, a local mountain cyclist, gave quick tips to an Italian biker Dan, who had written to me as follows:
“Your site is really useful, but I didn’t find anything about cycling… So hope you could help me… I’m used to travel by bicycle in hard conditions, and your country looks amazing… Questions: what do [...]

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Video: Driving the Road of Bones (Kolyma Highway) in winter

By bolot | Published: February 18, 2010

This road was built by the inmates of Gulag camps, most of them were buried along the way. That’s why it’s named the Road of Bones.

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Matt George’s travel report: From Yakutsk to Magadan via Oymyakon and Ust Nera by a taxi

By bolot | Published: February 12, 2010

It is February 11th, 2010. I am sitting in Magadan and have time to reflect on my journey so far. It is GMT+11 here, which means I have travelled pretty much halfway around the World. And all without taking a single flight so far. Unfortunately I have to break the ‘rules’ and take a flight [...]

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Matt George’s report: Journey from Neryungri to Yakutsk by a taxi

By bolot | Published: February 8, 2010

In a previous post “How to get a taxi going to Yakutsk at the Neryungri railroad station?” I mentioned Matt George, a UK backpacker. This is a guy, who asked me about how to get at the Neryungri railroad station a taxi going to Yakutsk. My answers you can find in the mentioned publication. Here [...]

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Journey to Oymyakon: Today all participants gathered!

By bolot | Published: January 15, 2010

As far as you know, I decided to organize a road trip to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold, from Jan. 17 till Jan. 21 for my friends. Today we, trip participants, gathered and had lunch in Yakutsk at the Chicago Bar.
There were alll of those mentioned in travellers list, including a German photographer Bjorn [...]

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How to get a taxi going to Yakutsk at the Neryungri railroad station?

By bolot | Published: January 11, 2010

As you noted by my announcements, I decided to arrange my friends’ roadtrip from Yakutsk to the Pole of Cold, Oymyakon. So… I was forced to come across some technical questions, like visa, air tickets, car rent, transfers, accommodation, etc. Man, so many things are to be done! Praise God, everything goes smoothly so far. [...]

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How to dress in Yakutia in the middle of winter?

By bolot | Published: January 9, 2010

Amazing! I received questions from an American lady, whose given name is Summer. It’s like “Hello from summer to winter.” She was asking:
I found some amazing stories about people who were there lately as tourists and I was wondering: Somebody on a web site who was there suggested highly the North Face Himalayan suit and [...]

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Video: Long Way Round – Road of Bones Episode

By bolot | Published: December 29, 2009

Thanks to Eva Krečová, I’ve eventually watched the Long Way Round episode dedicated the Road of Bones. So many years past, but it happened now only. If you weren’t lucky to see it, just do it and consider your traveling this way. Must be a lot of fun and adventure stories.

Btw, Eva Krečová & Tomáš [...]

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Is it dangerous to travel to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold in winter?

By bolot | Published: December 28, 2009

A Jordi, of Catalonia, is asking:
I have been reading the last report about Norwegians’ accident [in Yakutia/Siberia], and I want to ask you something… Is this a recent story? I haven’t found the piece of news relating to this.
Nowadays I know some people who want to make the journey to Oymyakon [the coldest place in [...]

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