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 [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged 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.
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged car, GisRX, GPS, GPS navigator, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, maps, Navitel, Road of Bones, roads |
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 [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel, Video | Also tagged 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, [...]
Posted in Answers, Travel | Also tagged Aldan, 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:
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. [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged airlines, Anadyr, car, Expedition, flight, Kamchatka, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, motorcycle, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, summer, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
March 21, 2010
Walter Colebatch, the UK Sibirsky Extreme motor travel expedition leader, informed me about realising the the preview of the DVD with the documentary of the last year journey across Siberia, including Yakutia. In this short video you can see his travelling many Siberian roads. Yakutia is shown with…
Posted in Travel, Video | Also tagged Expedition, Kolyma Highway, Lensk, Magadan, Mirny, mountain, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Sibirsky Extreme, summer, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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 [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged bicycle, Cold, cycl, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, summer, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Video, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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 [...]
Posted in Answers, Travel, Video | Also tagged Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, mountain, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, summer, the Lena river, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 3, 2009
In March 2007, a few friends of mine, Yakutsk-based adventure cyclists, Marat, Maverick & Scorpion (don’t know why, but they call each others by nicks), traveled from Yakutsk to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold. A funny thing. They documented the expedition pretty good. They’ve got a lot of high resolutions photographs, perfect videos and… Since [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Photo, Travel, Video | Also tagged bicycle, Cold, cycl, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Video, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
October 22, 2009
Yeah, I am pretty much happy to present the list of useful stuff to bring along while traveling on bikes across Russia’s Siberia and Far East. The list was compiled, used and provided by Czech motorcyclists Eva Krečová and Tomáš Holman (the FB fan page OFF Siberia … ОФФ Сибирь Project), who, by the way, [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged biker, checklist, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, motorcycle, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, summer, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Yakutia |
