Blogs from Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia, Europe

Krasnoyarsk City. The summer in the Republic of Yakutia was very hot for me, (the said your are Colombian, you are used to that), believe me it was very hot. It was hot and it was weird, because Yakutsk is the coldest city in the world, with and average of -55^c on winter, but this summer was around +40c; that's why this city break all the extremes, and have many many Guinness Records. So I decided to go away from this extreme hot, and the interested thing here in Russia is that Russia is huge, so there were many options, but I also wanted to be comfortable, and go to a place which my program wouldn’t object to (Rotary International). So I received an invitation from one very good friend (also from Rotary) who lives ... read more

A small introduction to the Evenkia. 5 day in Evenkia The mysterious edge, big fish, the edge of mystery and magic. District soaked reindeer. My friend calls me. Hello: "Sergey, how are you? - Well, work. When you arrive in Russia? / I want you to meet with the Evenki. You'll have free time? 2010, 10 March, I was going to go to Moscow, a tourist exhibition. Yes I am one of those edges, I was born there (but my god, the Krasnoyarsk Territory simply huge, I cannot be in Evenkia.) I heard about this territory, under the name of Evenkia (but never been there )..... I thought. .. Well I'll come. "I said" What was on my arrival?? I went to first on a snowmobile, then transferred to a reindeer and riding reindeer drove 200 ... read more

Day 47 Ok so we just ticked over 2800Kms this morning from moscow and now Moscow time +3, getting there but gosh what a night. At around 1am I think we had 2 women and baby of about 18 months join us. What the heck, how unlucky could we possibly be? Baby was crying away but I guess at that age you get a free ticket!? For most of the next day I was camped out in the corridor as the baby was roaming naked in our cabin, being fed, changed or sleeping. Lovely few hours that was and you can not believe how happy we were when they got off in Novosibirsk around 5pm. I was even ready to help them get off with their bags. Anyway after taking a break off the train here ... read more

The people who got on the bus at Cheremshanka airport had hard, weathered, humourless faces. The small planes and helicopters there irregularly serve a range of settlements in the Extreme North, many of them closed Arctic towns and cities inaccessible by road and off limits to anyone who doesn't live there, places where the extreme weather and pollution from industry keep life expectancy as low as the forties. The people who got on the bus at the main Krasnoyarsk airport, its grimey windows, torn seats and faded paint worlds away from the sleek, shiney silver, luxury coach pictured in a poster at the bus stop, appeared to be a different kettle of fish altogether. I was amazed by how familiar and normal they looked; there, 4000km east of Moscow in the middle of Siberia, the middle ... read more

Hola a tod@s! Esta vez he tardado mas en actualizar el blog...pero mas vale tarde que nunca ¿no? En el blog anterior nos quedamos en Novosibirsk, la capital de Siberia, una ciudad gris y de grandes avenidas donde pasamos unos dias con Valentina, Semion y su pequeña Sonya. De Novosibirsk partimos hacia Tomsk, que se desvia un poco de la ruta, pero que es una ciudad universitaria y agradable donde pasamos unos dias en compañia de Grigory, y sus amigos Kirill y Denis. Nada mas llegar a la estacion, aparecen Grigory y sus amigos, y nos llevan en un pequeño coche ruso hasta su casa. Tras comer un plato de Borsh ( sopa tipica rusa) que Grigory ha preparado especialmente para nosotros, volvemos a montarnos en el coche: es sabado noche y hay que ir a ... read more