Stone Trees of Yakutsk
One of the cool natural breath-taking places in Russia are the “Lena’s stone forest” or “Lena’s Stone Pillars”.
Many spend a lot just to get there and to take a look. This place is where the virgin Siberian woods stand untouched and the only way to get there is to take a four day journey from Moscow city. First, you have to take a flight so long that if you flew opposite direction you could easily come to New York, so far from Moscow that is, but that’s still Russia. The average price for such flight is around $800 by Russian airlines, and as you might guessed there are no foreign competitors on those routes. Then upon the arrival to Yakutia region, the land from where the significant part of world’s diamonds production originate from. Then from there the only way to go to this place is by a boat. Armed native individuals can offer you a “cheap” $500 trip on a small boat, so in three days you can be on spot. They can show you the fields of wild hemp flower around which, as some tourists say, often can be picked up by your guide while you are exploring the stone forest, and then boiled together with some milk to meet you when you are back in camp with some mind blowing mixture. And they are all armed there, those natives. Also you can take bit larger river boat that are run by some local companies and go with more comfort up the river. Of course, then there are no armed natives or botanical exploration.
Also this one can be see on google maps to get an idea where the heck it is.
The Fallen Earth [updated]
Some photos from the trip to the Western Kazakhstan, May 2009. The road there is left from Soviet times, it is paved and straight as a line, more than 600 miles long. Then suddenly in the middle of nowhere the road simply ends
Two Russian Notebook Uses
Here are two tips from Russian bloggers that were pretty popular in Russia, and might be of some use for someone not in Russia too. Both of them involve computers in some bit not common way.
The first one is about how the small-sized laptop could be used to check if your microwave oven has enough shielding to protect you from dangerous microwave radiation.
One Morning on the River
One morning on the Russian river. The summer is coming to Russia.
Russian Lake Baikal
Scenery views from Russian lake Baikal, the biggest lake in Russia and Europe.
Dope at 30,000ft
If next time during the flight by Russian airline you’ll notice that the flight attendants or pilots are looking strange you’ll know the reason why. They as a rule are not being searched before the flight so can take with themselves anything they like.
Perm City Station
All the travellers coming to the Russian city Perm station are now being greeted by such an artwork. It’s like “Welcome to Perm city”.
West of Moscow City
From time to time we have views of Moscow city from above.
This time the views of Southern-Western part of Moscow made from the top of forty-three stored residential building.
Guide to Russia
They say that this kind of printed guide to Russia is being handled to every passenger of some flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg that come from USA.
Russian Stone Idols of Komi
This is one of the most mysterious places of Russian North. Those stone idols attract tourists from all the Russia. They stand alone on the wide plateau with no any stones or mountains around. Who built them? What for? Those questions have no answers.
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