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2010 Sakha Travel: New contacts in Sangar & Verkhoyansk

Good news to all travelers, who are interested in Sangar (the Kobyajsky region) and Verkhoyansk. I visited the 2010 Sakha Travel Exhibition held at Polar Hotel in Yakutsk on April 9-10, 2010. Finally, I acquainted with travel enthusiasts from those places. You can see them in the photographs.
The Kobyajsky region is famous for its [...]

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Journey to Oymyakon: Today all participants gathered!

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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Video: Celebrating the New Year on the coldest place on the Earth

Why not celebrate the New Year in Yakutia?! You will be surrounded with the extreme cold and real Yakutian hospitality. The Siberian winter is fun and worth to try it! Don’t you think so?

By the way, this is the first time, when I realized what a wonderful New Year we have here, on the coldest [...]

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Download the Kolyma Highway travel map for free now

Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Just wondering… Will the blog visitors, who love travelling and free downloading at the same time, be enough grateful for what I am going to do now? Damn, I am really up to let the world download the Kolyma Highway travel map for free.

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SibirskyExtreme back to Yakutia, made the way from Ust-Kut to the Arctic Circle successfully

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 [...]

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Documentary: Kolyma, GULAG, the Road of Bones

What had been happening at 1930s on the territory of East Yakutia was really awefull. Watch the short documentary “Kolyma” made by SDMediaEU for the TV series “Siberian Impressions.” Terrible feelings after watching the video. Especially the scenes with human bones. But we can’t do anything about it. That’s history and the worst part.

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Photos: Canadian wood buffaloes are doing well in Yakutia

Yeah! That’s right. Wood buffaloes do live in Yakutia, i.e. in Siberia. They were transported in April 2006 from Edmonton, Canada. Since then the quantity of bisons was increased from 26 up to 39. 6 calves were born in 2008, and 7 in 2009. They are doing pretty well, have reacclimatized successfully on the land, [...]

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2009 Ysyakh in Yakutsk

More pics of previous Ysyakh at Flickr.com
This summer Yakutsk’s Ysyakh (Ысыах), Yakut national holidays, will be held on June 27-28, 2009. Location is Ys Khatyn (Yс Хатынг), 20 minutes by car northward from Yakutsk, near the settlement of Zhatai (Жатай). The opening ceremony will take place on the first day, Saturday, at 12.00.
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Travel to Labynkyr Lake with a monster

An Oymyakon-based travel enthusiast, Semen Baishev, informed me that in the course of summer he is going to arrange tours to the legendary Labynkyr Lake that is famous for a monster.

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A new website for The National Tour Operator “Yakutia”

The National Tour Operator “Yakutia” redesigned its website http://planetyakutia.com.
A new version looks very cool, presentable and easy-navigating. It has the following sections “Where to go”, “What to do”, “Where to stay”, “About Yakutia”, “Logistics”, “About Us.” Besides, a site visitor may book the tour online. PlanetYakutia.com is bilingual, in Russian and English languages.

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