Russia with Rover

[Rattler]

Thanks for the report lacrits 68.

By the way, I have some cousins in Orebro, SWE my mother visited a couple years ago. I would love to get over to Sweden someday.

 

[lacrits68]

hi!

while processing images i found couple of "worth publishing"

Our son 4 yo on hsi 1st "russia safari"...bit sleepy in the morning...!

and some domestic russian trucks....some might reconize them?

1st campsite

local dirt roads and bridges...!

lokal "SPA" bath...!

enjoy!

--Jan--

 

[computeruser]

How did I miss this post the first time around? Who knows.

Awesome trip. Keep on posting pics! I have a list of places that I would travel to if/when I became wealthy enough to do so. This is one of those trips. I would love to see the time-stands-still state of affairs in rural Russia.

 

[haakonbs]

Looks like a great trip. We participated in a trophy called Arctic Trophy last year. Russia is a great place for offroading and trips.

More pics here

 

[1leglance]

Great pics and reports from both of you.

Question, is tenting/camping a free for all in any wooded area or are there campsites/reserves or such that you have to go to?

I dig the worn out bridges. How much recon do you do before crossing?

 

[haakonbs]

You can pretty much camp where ever you like to. No restrictions to camp fire.

We walked over some of the bridges before driving. Sometimes we ended up going through the river instead

 

[lacrits68]

You can pretty much camp where ever you like to. No restrictions to camp fire.

We walked over some of the bridges before driving. Sometimes we ended up going through the river instead

I second that! we allso camped all over the Karelian isthmus and never had any problems!
We walked tru All bad/flooded bits of road before driving and all bad/weak bridges got separe inspection before crossing! Better safe than sorry!

I realy can recomend "russia by car" travel!

We are currently planing new trip to be next summer! This time in an 110 TDI

--Jan--

 

[Woodsman]

Russia is just so vast. There are many lifetimes of adventures awaiting those with the time and the means. Why is life so short . . . and money so scarce ?

 

[Street Wolf]

Neat.

 

[Desert Taco]

What kind of visa did you get to travel over there? Did you need to have a 'sponsor'?

 

[Master-Pull]

Wow those are some cool pictures, I wish I could read all the captions in the blog. I would love to take a trip through Europe at some point, Master-Pull's roots are in Iceland and we have been talking about a company trip of sorts.

-Alex

 

[lacrits68]

What kind of visa did you get to travel over there? Did you need to have a 'sponsor'?

Hi!

Just "normal" turist visa, only "requirment" was that i needed to get an dokumet that insures that i visited places i told officials im gona visit!

there is 2 ways to do that, take in on local "hotel" or go to local hotel pay them for filling in an form for you! ( this case it was cheaper to stay overnight, and got an nice WARM shower!)

No "sponsor" needed! They are "loosing "up all that! Visa was quick business, send in form, pictures and back comes invoice, pay it an 2 days later you have visa in mailbox!

--Jan--

 

[Desert Taco]

Hi!

Just "normal" turist visa, only "requirment" was that i needed to get an dokumet that insures that i visited places i told officials im gona visit!

there is 2 ways to do that, take in on local "hotel" or go to local hotel pay them for filling in an form for you! ( this case it was cheaper to stay overnight, and got an nice WARM shower!)

No "sponsor" needed! They are "loosing "up all that! Visa was quick business, send in form, pictures and back comes invoice, pay it an 2 days later you have visa in mailbox!

--Jan--

Thanks. It sounds exactly the same as when I was back there in 2003, but I had heard that they had actually gotten stricter about it since then. Good to know that is not the case

 

[Nickyrash]

The places in this tread is very good the vehicles what the have used is very strong i think so but the development of the road should be done.

 

[haakonbs]

I found this album with lots of photo from Russia

http://public.fotki.com/akulikova/leshik/off-road/