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Arctic Yakutian Highlights

This entry was posted in Adventures and tagged Batagay Betenkyos Buluus GULAG kisilyakh Lena Pillars Museum of Mammoth Permafrost Kingdom Verkhoyansk mountain Yakut horse Yakutsk

Highlights: Mammoth graveyards, gulag concentration camp, indigenous Yakut horse herders, trekking to sacred kisilyakh rock pillars, visiting 100-metre deep sinkhole that appeared inexplicably 10 years ago, Lena Pillars UNESCO World Heritage Site, underground permafrost laboratory. Description: guests will be exploring one of the wildest, remotest, least explored parts of the planet: Arctic Yakutia. Yakutia, a province the size of India but with a population of More…

“Mammoth hunter”

This entry was posted in Adventures and tagged ancient animals' remains Batagai Batagay Betenkes Heart of Siberia mammoth graveyards mammoth hunter permafrost Pole of Cold Ulakhan Suullur Mountain Verkhoyansk Verkhoyansk mountain Yakagir mammoth Yakut mammoth Yakut permafrost yakutia Yakutsk Yakutsk Mammoth museum Yana river

Many people would like to see where the real mammoths used to live but only few of them know that most of the mammoth bones can be found in Yakutia. The layer of permafrost preserves thousands of unique exemplars incomparable to any others in the world. The Yukagir mammoth found in Yakutia not long ago More…