Far East

Two Australian families brought their cars to Vladivostok. Now they are heading from Yakutsk to Magadan. In weeks, they hope to traverse Mongolia. It was Jon (the 1st from the right), who gave me Yuri Melnikov s contact. The latter helped them with dealing custom clearance and cargo company in Vladivostok.

Travellers, who prefer to move across Russia’s Siberia and Far East on their own vehicles (motorcycles or off-road cars), tend to ask me this question often.

Indeed, if they ship their transport to Vladivostok by sea, they would need a person, who will help them to deal with custom clearance service, a sea port’s clerks, cargo companies, and do the seem-to-be-complicated paper work and etc, etc, etc.

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Andrew I with a creative studio “A Novigator” announced a descent to the deepest well in the world, Shergin’s shaft, to take place in Yakutsk on October 20, 2009. Update, 21.10.2009: The even was postponed till November 04, 2009.

An exclusive speleological tour into the unique well, that is 116 meters deep, as long as a 40-store building,and surrounded with permafrost! Read more…