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 [...]
Posted in Locations, Travel | Also tagged car, Cold, Coldest City, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, mountain, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, rates, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, taxi, the Lena river, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, Verkhoyansky, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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 [...]
Posted in Answers, General, Travel | Also tagged clothes, Cold, cold weather, fur, fur boots, fur coat, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, reindeer, Siberia, tips, tourism, Travel, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
December 5, 2009
That’s what I see on my way home in the evening. In the last Friday evening, Dec. 4, 2009, we had -41ºC and fog and no winds. So the frost was almost dry and burning, and my quickly frozen camera was slow to take pictures. Many unfocused shots were just deleted. See the left pics.
That’s [...]
By bolot | Published:
November 11, 2009
I have a German friend, Bjorn Steinz. He is a pro photographer based in Prague. Two years ago he visited Yakutsk in November. He spent a few days just walking around on streets and taking pictures of people. Since then I promote his works and website oka2 Photography on every occasion, and I am grateful [...]
By bolot | Published:
October 16, 2009
This is a good question asked by a friend of mine from Fairbanks, Alaska. He is a big fan of photography and off-roading. His Flickr nick is rpiereck. Wonderful pictures he has. So… Frankly saying, it was me who first asked him “How do you prepare your Jeep for the winter in Alaska?” In his [...]
Posted in Answers, General, Photo, Social | Also tagged 4WD, Alaska, car, Cold, Coldest City, Fairbanks, heater, Jeep, oil, Photo, roads, Siberia, UAZ, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
October 15, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Editorial, Locations, Travel, Video | Also tagged Coldest City, Culture, Pole of Cold, Travel, Video, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 20, 2009
I found this question in the list of keywords that have brought some traffic to my weblog, and I recalled Nick Middleton, an Oxford geography lecturer and the creator of the four-series TV show “Going to Extremes.” The first part, btw, depicted his travel to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold. While staying in the village, [...]
Posted in Answers, General, History, Locations, Travel | Also tagged Cold, Expedition, Kolyma Highway, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, Siberia, Tomtor, Travel, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
September 18, 2009
I digged a nice story made by the BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall. It’s about Yakutia. She shares with her short impression on the region.
“Climate change is having an impact in the vast and remote region of Yakutia in Siberia which, in winter at least, is still the coldest place on earth. Bridget Kendall reports.”
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged Cold, Coldest City, Culture, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Siberia, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 15, 2009
At my Flickr account I received a good question from an Australian user, tanetahi. In his comment to one of my first autumn pics he wrote:
Do people get depressed or complain much about the cold as you progress from summer to winter in Yakutsk, or is the severe climate just accepted as an inevitable part [...]
Posted in Answers, General, Locations, Photo | Also tagged Aldan, Cold, Photo, Siberia, snow, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 9, 2009
This question I hear very often from international website visitors. The last time it was a Turkish 4WD adventure traveler Ali Eric, who is making his world-around trip Istanbul2Istanbul. A few days ago, while seeping the Russian beer at a local grill house, he said to me:
“You know, before my start, I told friends that [...]
Posted in Answers, Culture, General, History, Locations | Also tagged Cold, Culture, history, people, Siberia, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
