Where in Siberia is the last Tsar of Russia’s ‘missing’ gold?

by roberto | Monday, April 17, 2017 | Senza categoria

From: January 24, 2013 By The Siberian Times reporter The 2013 sees the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, the Russian royal family thrown on the scrapheap of history in 1917 as the Bolsheviks loomed. The following year Nicholas II and his close family were...

Do you know where is the Bears’ Lake? Episode 4: Kinzelyuk Waterfalls

by roberto | Thursday, March 30, 2017 | Senza categoria

Early morning in Tofalaria. We have a salty breakfast as only here you can have. Proteins of fresh fish we catch and vegetables in a Siberian recipe that you will miss one day. Today we will walk up mountains searching the Kinzelyuk Waterfalls. Probably the second on...

Do you know where is the Bears’ Lake? Episode 3: Tofalaria Wildlife

by roberto | Thursday, March 30, 2017 | Senza categoria

In the Tofalaria region and in the Reserve there are not roads. When you get into the forest you find sort of paths where the bushes of the wild berries are smaller and you identify a trek. The treks are not made by humans but by big animals. Bears, Deers, Elks,...

Do you know where is the Bears’ Lake? Episode 2: Bears’ Lake discover in Tofalaria

by roberto | Thursday, March 16, 2017 | Senza categoria

From the Airfield of Verkhnyaya Gutara in the Tofalaria territory we got our Mi-8 and flew again for about an hour to West. Landscape now it is covered with higher mountains and over some altitude the taiga disappears becoming a carpet of thousand shades of green and...

Do you know where is the Bears’ Lake? Episode 1: Verkhnyaya Gutara in Tofalaria

by roberto | Monday, March 6, 2017 | Senza categoria

March 7, 2017, ROBERTO CANEDOLI,  EXPLORER OF  RUSSIA TREKKING in TOFALARIA If you google Tofalaria you do not find so much on internet. If you instead type Bear’s Lake or better Medvezhyie Osero it could be even worse. Seems to be something classified by somebody...