By bolot | Published:
October 21, 2009
There are three options. You can reach Lensk from Yakutsk:
1) by plane,
2) by taxi,
3) hitchhiking (mostly with truck drivers).
Posted in Answers, Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged flight, Lensk, Mirny, rates, roads, schedule, Siberia, taxi, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
October 16, 2009
This is a good question asked by a friend of mine from Fairbanks, Alaska. He is a big fan of photography and off-roading. His Flickr nick is rpiereck. Wonderful pictures he has. So… Frankly saying, it was me who first asked him “How do you prepare your Jeep for the winter in Alaska?” In his [...]
Posted in Answers, General, Photo, Social | Also tagged 4WD, Alaska, car, Cold, Coldest City, Fairbanks, heater, Jeep, life, oil, Photo, roads, Siberia, UAZ, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
October 15, 2009
Why not celebrate the New Year in Yakutia?! You will be surrounded with the extreme cold and real Yakutian hospitality. The Siberian winter is fun and worth to try it! Don’t you think so?
By the way, this is the first time, when I realized what a wonderful New Year we have here, on the coldest [...]
Posted in Editorial, Locations, Travel, Video | Also tagged Coldest City, Culture, life, Pole of Cold, Travel, Video, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 23, 2009
Frankly saying, this week I thought “Well, on the next Monday we are promised to see the first snowfall in Yakutsk. Winter is really at the hand. It’s time to think about the cold.” Besides, I noted that, according to the latest Google Analytics statistics, Oymyakon, the so-called Pole of Cold, became one of the [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged car, Cold, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 20, 2009
I found this question in the list of keywords that have brought some traffic to my weblog, and I recalled Nick Middleton, an Oxford geography lecturer and the creator of the four-series TV show “Going to Extremes.” The first part, btw, depicted his travel to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold. While staying in the village, [...]
Posted in Answers, General, History, Locations, Travel | Also tagged Cold, Expedition, Kolyma Highway, life, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, Siberia, Tomtor, Travel, Winter Exotica, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
September 18, 2009
I digged a nice story made by the BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall. It’s about Yakutia. She shares with her short impression on the region.
“Climate change is having an impact in the vast and remote region of Yakutia in Siberia which, in winter at least, is still the coldest place on earth. Bridget Kendall reports.”
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged Cold, Coldest City, Culture, life, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Siberia, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 15, 2009
At my Flickr account I received a good question from an Australian user, tanetahi. In his comment to one of my first autumn pics he wrote:
Do people get depressed or complain much about the cold as you progress from summer to winter in Yakutsk, or is the severe climate just accepted as an inevitable part [...]
Posted in Answers, General, Locations, Photo | Also tagged Aldan, Cold, life, Photo, Siberia, snow, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 9, 2009
This question I hear very often from international website visitors. The last time it was a Turkish 4WD adventure traveler Ali Eric, who is making his world-around trip Istanbul2Istanbul. A few days ago, while seeping the Russian beer at a local grill house, he said to me:
“You know, before my start, I told friends that [...]
Posted in Answers, Culture, General, History, Locations | Also tagged Cold, Culture, history, life, people, Siberia, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
August 29, 2009
Thanks to my writing about Yakutia for international readers, I have a unique opportunity to communicate with very interesting people. One of them is Rob Lilwall, a travel cyclist of London. Five years ago, he decided to embark on the journey of his life.
Bored of his work as a geography teacher in England, Rob [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Photo, Travel, Video | Also tagged adventure, Aldan River, bicycle, bridge, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Kyubeme, Magadan, mountain, mountain bicycle, Photo, Pole of Cold, river, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Verkhoyansky, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
May 28, 2009
Received a message from the U.S.:
I think your website is a great service to travellers who are interested in visiting Yakutia! I have been to Yakutsk before and love the nature. After looking though the internet and your site I still have two questions that I couldn’t find answered. Both of them have to do [...]
Posted in Answers, Services, Travel | Also tagged airlines, car, contact, Expedition, flight, Magadan, north, rates, roads, schedule, taxi, the Lena river, Tiksi, tourism, Travel, winter road |
