Horizons Unlimited - The HUBB - Vlad to Anchorage!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by van berrock (Post 181656)

Hi, its still looking like departure airport will be Khabarovsk and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
This is e-mail from VladAvia:
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Hello,

The "Vladivostok Air" Company can offer you to travel to Anchorage from
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
The flight XF 711 on route Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky - Anchorage will be
carried out on Mondays (schedule from 07th of July up to the September,15) and on Thursdays (schedule from 17 July up to the August, 14).
The departure time is 22:00 the arrival time is 05:45 a.m. (local time).
Presently you will be unable to book a ticket because of absence of fares.
Hence the cost is also inavailable.
You may follow the necessary information on the web-site
Ïàññàæèðàì.

To transport the motorbikes you are to address to Air-Cargo Company by
e-mail air-cargo@mail.ru or by phone 8 (4232) 307-631.

Best regards,
the dispatcher of the call-center
Natalia
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This is a help but the same problem exists with Petropavlosk - how to get there!

Petrovpavlosk is in/on Kamchatka, a very isolated peninsula with access only by sea or air. There are no road/tracks from 'mainland' Russia although once there roads/tracks exist between the few towns. I am told specially equipped vehicles 'could possibly' get there overland in winter when everything is frozen hard. To do this one has to cross great distances and vast empty areas of Siberia to approach from the north.
A ferrry from Magadan, if there is one, looks a better bet.

See the current thread
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...t-russia-34111

The area used to be a 'forbidden area', reserved purely for military, apart from the few indidiginous peoples. This has eased in recent times - but not in peoples attitudes even if in law.

I am in Russia right now and, by coincidence yesterday before this thread mentioned it, I bought the best atlas/map of the area available (1:50,000 2004 edition - probably the latest). This shows no tracks at all for thousands of miles across northern Siberia. There are no contours shown, but the many relatively short rivers on the isthmuth from the north suggest high mountains. The whole peninsular is full of active volcanoes, hot geysers and earthquakes occur daily. A very, very hard journey. Anyone up for it?

If anyone wants, I will look elsewhere for more atlas/maps (mine was the last in the shop) and send them (or photocopies) when back in London later next week. Only the cost of a beer!

PM your details and let me know before late tuesday at the very latest if I am to go shopping.
Tony.