Monday 7 September 2015

Kamchatka - Magnificent Russian Far East









View on Domashny ("The Tamed Ones") Group of Volcanoes:



Old Man Island (looks like one of Alan Lee's "Lord of the Rings" paintings):



Three Brothers:



Around the Mutnovski Volcano:











Komandorskie Islands:




Steller's Arc:



Bering Island:
This sign literally points to the "middle of nowhere" (among a few other very far away places)




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Winters are brutal, especially when supplies run out:



Power station almost buried in 10 meter snow:





Amazingly, it's still in operation!



Looking for the pump house, buried under 17 meters of snow:



City of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski lies in the shadow of Avacha volcano, a particularly active one (called a "decade" volcano, with long history of explosive eruptions)








Closed "military" city of Vilyuchinsk:



Local way of getting around:

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