By bolot | Published:
July 23, 2009
Checked my mail archive and found out the answer to the question received from a globetrotter. He asked about the availability of flight from Magadan to Anadyr.
That inquiry regarded to Magadan Oblast! Not about Yakutia. But… I wasn’t surprised at all. I am writing much about the way to Magadan, so people thought, maybe, [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Services | Also tagged airlines, Alaska, Anadyr, Chukotka, flight, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Magadan, rates, schedule, Travel, Vladivostok |
By bolot | Published:
July 21, 2009
So… Two UK adventurous bikers of the Sibirsky Extreme travel motorcycle expedition have just ridden the Kolyma Highway. They had left Yakutsk on Thursday afternoon and arrived in Magadan on Sunday evening. 2100 km, 3.5 days, and 7 tyre changes! What did they say about the federal road?
The road was a little better than the [...]
Posted in Answers, History, Locations, Travel | Also tagged adventure, bike, biker, car, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, life, Magadan, maps, mountain, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, roads, Sibirsky Extreme, the Lena river, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
July 15, 2009
I received this question a year ago from Walter, the leader of the Sibirsky Extreme motorcycle expedition. Remember, I wrote to him an answer (check the post Khandyga – Yakutsk – Mirny – Lensk) and something like “Yes, it is possible to ride it through in summer.” Right at the moment two UK bikers of [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged bike, biker, Expedition, extreme, Mirny, motorcycle, Nurba, roads, Sibirsky Extreme, summer, Travel, Viluisk, Vilyuisk, Vilyuisky Trakt, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
July 7, 2009
Received a big portion of questions from a UK-based TV documentary production company. A production executive wrote in his request:
I’m researching a history/travel series about women travellers, their journeys and achievements. One story I’ve been looking at is about [a Brit nurse] Kate Marsden who travelled on horse back to help the Lepers in the [...]
Posted in Answers, History, Services, Travel | Also tagged horse, housing, hunting, Kate Marsden, rates, roads, shamans, Travel, Viluisk, Vilyuisk, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
July 3, 2009
Those, who is interested in travelling on the same route by bikes, might want to check the Sibirsky Extreme UK Bikers Expedition’s website
Posted in Answers, Travel | Also tagged bike, biker, Expedition, Lensk, Mirny, motorcycle, Peleduj, rates, roads, Sibirsky Extreme, summer, the Lena river, Travel, Udachnyj, Ust-Kut, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
June 16, 2009
More pics of previous Ysyakh at Flickr.com
This summer Yakutsk’s Ysyakh (Ысыах), Yakut national holidays, will be held on June 27-28, 2009. Location is Ys Khatyn (Yс Хатынг), 20 minutes by car northward from Yakutsk, near the settlement of Zhatai (Жатай). The opening ceremony will take place on the first day, Saturday, at 12.00.
Note: Yakutsk Ysyakh [...]
Posted in Announcement, Culture, Editorial, Events, Photo | Also tagged Culture, customs, event, Photo, tradition, Yakutsk, Ysyakh |
By bolot | Published:
June 4, 2009
A London-based liaison officer wrote to me “I am trying to get a deal together to buy 200,000 carats of rough diamonds from Alrosa in Yakutia. Only problem is, their English speaking representatives’ websites do not work, nor do their telephone numbers. Very frustrating!!!!” Then he added the best line I had ever read “You [...]
Posted in Answers, Economy, General | Also tagged ALROSA, business, company, contact, diamonds, Economy, London, mining, Mirny, Moscow |
By bolot | Published:
June 1, 2009
At long last, I managed to get 2009 Summer Hydrofoil Vessels Timetable for those, who expressed the strong wish to travel along the Lena River from Ust-Kut to Yakutsk. This is a long voyage, I need to warn you.
Posted in Answers, Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged boat, hydrofoil vessel, Lensk, Olekminsk, Osetrovo, Peleduj, rates, river port, schedule, the Lena river, timetable, transportation, Travel, Ust-Kut, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
May 27, 2009
The next request from South Korea was like “Will you tell some a very cheap way to make residence registration at a guest house in Yakutsk? How much will it cost for a night?”
By bolot | Published:
May 26, 2009
An Australian based in Hong Kong keeps asking me. He wrote “A number of travel agents, like tour operator Olympia-Reisen-Sibir, are advertising an Artic cruise tour to Tiksi on the Mikhail Svetlov from July 21 to August 3 (arriving back 3am on August 3.)”
Posted in Answers, General, Services, Travel | Also tagged conference, cruise, Demjan Bednyj, event, Mikhail Svetlov, schedule, ship, the Lena river, Tiksi, tourism, Travel, UNESCO, Yakutsk |
