It is not easy to find the car and the driver who wants to go via the infamous Road of Bones to Magadan. It is more then 2000 kms through taiga, remains of gulag camps, broken bridges, rivers to ford etc…
Helpful Agency in Yakutsk (Tour Service, Yaroslavskogo 30/1 apt 66 phone 33 53 34) arranged for us Ivan – the driver of bukhanka. Bukhanka in a little microbus – not very comfortable but very resistant – they say (gniotsa nie lamiotsa!).
We agreed for the price: it will be 13000 rou per day incl. petrol. As a solo traveller I’ll never pay such a money – but is will be 5 of us to share this cost. Ferries are extra.
All of us – the toptrotters know the world but not the outback of Yakutia: we are all excited by the new big adventure which starts tomorow.
It is my last message before tommorrow’s early morning departure to nowhere. I do hope we will do it in 6-7 days, sleeping in the pasiolok – tiny villages on the way. Now I am goint to buy the supply of food – not so easy available in taiga.
Next message – probably from Magadan after one week. Keep your fingers crossed, please – taiga is great but the flies (meshkha or mashkara) are awfull…
