By bolot | Published:
August 6, 2010
Shot today. Edited today. Broadcasted on the famous Yakutsk News Channel today. Daniel Robino is a superstar!
Daniel’s URLs: his website, his expedition facebook fan page
Posted in Answers, Travel, Video | Also tagged Kolyma Highway, Magadan, Road of Bones, Russia, Siberia, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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 bike, car, Chita, GPS, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, maps, Never, road legend, Road of Bones, 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 bike, car, GisRX, GPS, GPS navigator, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, maps, Navitel, Road of Bones |
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 bike, biker, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, moto adventure, motorcycle, mountain, road condition, Road of Bones, 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, bike, biker, ferry, Magadan, moto adventure, motorcycle, Nerungri, road condition, 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, bike, car, Expedition, flight, Kamchatka, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, motorcycle, Road of Bones, 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 bike, Expedition, Kolyma Highway, Lensk, Magadan, Mirny, mountain, Road of Bones, Siberia, Sibirsky Extreme, summer, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
February 26, 2010
Another request came from Polish mountaineers, Maciek and Kasia. This upcoming summer they decided to trek across the whole Momsky National Park. Accordingly they asked questions as many as possible. Mainly on the route Burustakh (a settlement on the Road of Bones) – Pobeda Peak – the village of Sasyr – the village of Khonuu.
I [...]
Posted in Answers | Also tagged airlines, car, climbing, Expedition, flight, hiking, Kolyma Highway, Moma River, Momsky National Park, mountain, Pobeda Peak, rafting, Road of Bones, schedule, Siberia, taxi, tourism, Travel, trekking, Ust Nera, Verkhoyansky, 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, bike, Cold, cycl, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, Siberia, summer, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Video, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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, Magadan, mountain, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, Siberia, tourism, Travel, Verkhoyansky, Video, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |