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, roads, Russia, Siberia, the Lena river, 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, summer, the Lena river, The Long Walk, Travel, Uritskoe, 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, summer, Tomtor, 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, summer, the Lena river, Travel, Verkhoyansk, Verkhoyansky, winter, Winter Exotica, 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, roads, schedule, Siberia, taxi, 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, roads, Siberia, summer, Tomtor, 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, roads, Siberia, 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, Magadan, mountain, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, rates, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, taxi, the Lena river, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, Verkhoyansky, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
February 8, 2010
In a previous post “How to get a taxi going to Yakutsk at the Neryungri railroad station?” I mentioned Matt George, a UK backpacker. This is a guy, who asked me about how to get at the Neryungri railroad station a taxi going to Yakutsk. My answers you can find in the mentioned publication. Here [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged car, Coldest City, Nerungri, Oymyakon, roads, Siberia, taxi, Travel, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
January 15, 2010
As far as you know, I decided to organize a road trip to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold, from Jan. 17 till Jan. 21 for my friends. Today we, trip participants, gathered and had lunch in Yakutsk at the Chicago Bar.
There were alll of those mentioned in travellers list, including a German photographer Bjorn [...]
Posted in Editorial, Locations, Travel | Also tagged car, Cold, Editorial, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, Travel, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |