“I would like to know of the most recent travel condition reports on the Road of Bones in the summer. What is the best recommended itinerary and what settlements or towns does one pass. How are the bridges, when are the rivers at their lowest point? There is some information on your site but still difficult to figure out. Where does one obtain maps for the region?” a blog visitor, of Belgium, asked. Read more…
Oymyakon in Siberia, Russia
Oymyakon is a little village located in the valley of Oymyakon in Oymyakon area, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Siberia / Russia. Known as the world’s coldest inhabited place, where the winter temperature was registered as low as -72.8C.
Kolyma Road in winter is in perfect condition. However, in mountain area, especially, it is highly recommended to be all eyes, drive slowly, watch ahead to see if there are cars coming towards you, in order to escape the situation when two cars meet each other in the narrowest way over a cliff and cannot go backward to let a car pass through. Read more…
Actually, Lake Labynkyr is easy to find but hard to reach. Read more…
Oymyakon weather info you may see in the right sidebar of the website. To learn what’s going on now in the Oymyakonsky region, especially in mountain area follow the link “More” and see new photographs taken in the early October 2008. Read more…
Right, that’s the most popular question asked by travellers, who are eager to try the Kolyma road. Read further to learn more about route details. Read more…
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Verkhoyansk is located 650 km north-east of Yakutsk, in the basin of the Yana river and its distributies – the Batagay, the Adycha, the Dulgalakh, the Sartan. Read more…
Another big portion of questions I received from the British company Firefly Film & Television Productions Ltd that is very interesting in making a documentary about the life in Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold. Read more…
Found out that there is constant interest in the Kolyma road known much as the Road of Bones. Is it safe or not? When is the best time to travel through? And so on, and so on. Okey. Let me give some idea. Further I may expand, if readers wish. Read more…
There is accommodation in Oymyakon? How can I reach Verkhoyansk from Tomtor or Yakutsk? Read more…
In Yakutia we have a sort of long distance taxi drivers, who are ready to give you a ride from Yakutsk to any settlement within the republic for certain price, sure, if there are roads to your destinations. Further find current rates. Read more…
