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, roads, round-the-world, Russia, Siberia, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
June 4, 2010
“..Long Walk Plus Expedition has just started! Two weeks ago we set out from Yakutsk to Olekmnisk. Since that time we have dozens of adventures but what’s the most important we met extremely a lot of wonderful people. Every place we visited we were welcome with great hospitality. We traveled by bus, car, motor boats [...]
Posted in Answers, Travel | Also tagged Bestyakh, GULAG, Khorintsy, Kolyma, Olekminsk, Pokrovsk, Sanyjahtakh, Siberia, Sinsk, the Lena river, The Long Walk, tourism, Travel, Uritskoe, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
May 7, 2010
An American Ian was asking me recently, “I am wondering how the lack of sunlight effects people in the long winter months. How many hours of daylight do you have, and it is dreadful? In summer, are the days extremely long? I am fascinated by your home.”
Posted in Answers, General, Locations | Also tagged Arctic, Arctic zone, daylight, life, Russia, Sakha, Siberia, white night, winter, 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, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
April 11, 2010
Good news to all travelers, who are interested in Sangar (the Kobyajsky region) and Verkhoyansk. I visited the 2010 Sakha Travel Exhibition held at Polar Hotel in Yakutsk on April 9-10, 2010. Finally, I acquainted with travel enthusiasts from those places. You can see them in the photographs.
The Kobyajsky region is famous for its [...]
Posted in Answers, Editorial, Events, Photo, Travel | Also tagged Aurora Borealis, Batagai, Cold, contact, Editorial, event, exhibition, mountain, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Sangar, Siberia, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, Verkhoyansk, Verkhoyansky, winter, Winter Exotica, 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, roads, Siberia, Sibirsky Extreme, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, 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, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Video, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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, Magadan, mountain, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, the Lena river, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
December 8, 2009
As far as you know, there is no bridge over the Lena River at all. Therefore, to cross the river, locals are forced to use ferryboats from June till October and ice roads in winter, officially from the midst of December till early April.
Late April – May and late October – November are considered [...]
Posted in Answers, General, Locations, Travel | Also tagged car, Cold, Coldest City, ice road, Khandyga, roads, schedule, taxi, the Lena river, Travel, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 12, 2009
The journey along the Lena River from its head evokes much travelers’ interest. Reasons vary. Recently I received another request, but from the U.S. this time. An Orthodox priest wrote:
“I want to travel by river to Yakutsk, June 2010 for a sabbatical project because early Orthodox missionaries to Alaska took this route in 1794. Where [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged hydrofoil vessel, Lensk, Olekminsk, Peleduj, Siberia, the Lena river, Travel, Ust-Kut, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
