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.
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel, Video | Also tagged car, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, tourism, Travel, Verkhoyansky, Video, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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, life, 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:
February 11, 2010
GULAGs researcher always asked me whether I had a map of GULAGs located on Siberia’s famous Road of Bones. I answered that I didn’t have. Now I have it on the blog.
The Road of Bones is the part of the Kolyma Highway constructed by GULAGs prisoners between Khandyga and Magadan in Stalin’s time. Many innocent [...]
Posted in Answers, History, Locations, Photo | Also tagged history, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, maps, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, Verkhoyansky, Yakutia |
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 bike, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, summer, the Lena river, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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 [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged car, Cold, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, rates, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
December 22, 2009
Today’s top local news is totally dedicted to Norwegian adventure travelers lost allegedly in the Oymyakonsky region by the Embassy of Norway and found by the Russian rescuers. They were okey.
They appeared to be very naive travelers. They thought they would be the first who made it to Magadan by the old route of [...]
Posted in Announcement, Answers, Travel | Also tagged car, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, Travel, winter, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
November 28, 2009
Once I published long-distance taxi rates that can be taken into consideration while traveling within Yakutia. But I’ve never written a post about pecularities of using such a ground transport, precisely about advantages and disadvantages of going from Yakutsk to Magadan via the Road of Bones (Kolyma Highway) by taxi.
This time I decided to [...]
Posted in Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged car, Cold, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, rates, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, taxi, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, 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 bike, biker, checklist, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, motorcycle, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, summer, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
October 9, 2009
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.
Posted in Answers, Editorial, Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged car, Churapcha, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, maps, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, roads, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera |
By bolot | Published:
September 27, 2009
Rejoyce, everyone, who wishes to try the Road of Bones to/from Magadan. Magadan is not the deadend. It is, actually, one of your enroute waypoints.
The only thing you need to know is how to ship your vehicle from/to Magadan by sea. The second thing to remember is that a Turkish driver Ali Eric (www.istanbul2instanbul.com) [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged 4WD, car, Expedition, Kolyma Highway, motocycle, North America, Road of Bones, roads, sea, shipment, Siberia, tourism, transfers, Travel, vehicle, Vladivostok, Yakutia |
