Back to the Arctics
Winter is the time to go to the.. ocean. When the weather is steadily below zero and the sun never rises above the horizon it is the high time. High time to go and see the auroras in the land of no-way-getting-there-in-the-summer.
There are no auto roads that way in summer. In winter there is small chance to get there. Even if you have suv or big gas goggler jeep you still can be sure in reaching the shores of the Polar Ocean.
Why people try to reach those salty frozen waters there? Maybe taking a look on the photos can give a clue.
Russian Eagle Pets
Lately numerous occasions of people with eagle pets have been reported from the centre of Moscow. Looks like this becomes trendy?
Russian at Northern Pole, 1950s-1960s
Russian people have tens of years of Polar explorations history. Something like fifty-sixty years ago they didn’t have the machines and planes like now but still some spent all year round on the Northern pole on the drifting ice platforms, because at the Northern Pole there is no land surface to build a stationary places like they do at Southern.
Many of those people already passed away. None of such situations are possible now - with lack of electricity, power supplies etc to stay at the Northernmost point of the Earth for 300+ days and don’t loose spirit.
These photos truly inspire.
Kamchatka Showplaces
The Kamchatka peninsula bristles with places of dizzying beauty, but unfortunately there is just one place – and it is the Valley of Geysers – known for those people who haven’t been to the peninsula that can be considered as one of the most beautiful lands in the whole Russia. There is one unique place that is being as good as the other nature sights of Kamchatka region and located not far from the before-mentioned Valley of Geysers, and this place is caldera of Uzon volcano. Today we will tell you about it.
Northern Urals Waterfalls
Many of us often forget about marvelous places nearby and prefer going to the world’s end to enjoy beautiful nature. Let’s virtually visit such an unimpaired place in the Northern Ural Mountains. (more…)
Sea Full of Starfish
Those are shots from the Pacific Coast of Russia. Thousands of starfish were washed out lately.
Some scientists say that it’s not ordinary at all.
Meantime locals enjoy free seafood picking it up with bare hands and leaving the coast with large bags full of exotic fish.
Autumn in Latvia
It looks like autumns in Latvia are really nice.
It worth taking a look.
The Sea of Salty Lakes
As every one of us knows, the land of Russia is spacious and it has almost any kind of scenery. From the very west end of the country and to the east end of it you can find almost all types of majestic landscapes. Today we will shift to the south edge of Russia, near the border with Kazakhstan, where the city of Astrakhan’ is located. The weather in this region is warm, mostly even hot, almost all year round… but the thing pictured on these shots doesn’t look like it was shot somewhere in a hot place at all. I would even say that a person who doesn’t know anything about this spot would think that this is somewhere in Antarctic. Or in the prairies of the USA with a piece of Antarctic landscape.
From a bird’s eye view the area looks fascinating, as if there was some kind of a sea long ago, and then it dried to the ground and now being deserted.
Rostov City Fish Market
In Russia there are two Rostov cities. One is a small town somewhere near Moscow and another is Rostov-On-Don a large Southern Russian city standing on the wide Don river and was called Rostov-the-Dad on criminal slang in Soviet times.
Just because it stands on the major river it has plenty of fish available there so there is a special fish market located next to the big local church where you can buy not just regular fish but easily get some species that belong to Internationa Red List of Endangered Species and it is cheap. And of course you can get Russian caviar, packed in just plastic boxes as much as you want. And it is cheap too.
Trees Not Trees
This Russian woodpecker can’t understand the deceiving truth of those tall concrete polls. They are not trees and they can’t have food in them.
Still looks like he is a stubborn one - there is a hole already.
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