KISILYAKH

The kisilyakh are giant stone pillars up to 40 metres tall that protrude bizarrely from hill tops at several locations in Yakutia, including Verkhoyanskiy District, Oymyakonskiy District, Nizhnekolymskiy District and the New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean. The indigenous Yakut people consider them sacred, and perform rituals to the spirit of the mountain upon visiting them. Legend has it that they were once giants who were turned to stone for their sins.

Three of our trips include visits to the Kisilyakh:

Arctic Yakutian Highlights

This trip includes visits to indigenous horse herders, woolly mammoth graveyards with guaranteed finds of mammoth remains, trekking to the sacred kisilyakh rock pillars, visiting one of Arctic Siberia's largest sinkholes, an extremely well preserved gulag concentration camp and more

Mammoth tusk hunters

Cross 60km of open sea on snowmobiles with mammoth tusk hunters from Yakutia's Arctic coast to reach the rich mammoth graveyards of the New Siberian Islands

The road of bones

2200km overland trip from Yakutsk to Magadan on a dirt track built by gulag prisoners. Visits to well preserved gulag concentration camps, nomadic reindeer herders, horse herders, treks to sacred kisilyakh standing stones, abandoned towns, good chance of spotting bears and more

Overland from Yakutia to Chukotka

Epic overland journey in a Russian vakhtovka truck, following a 2000km ice road through some of Siberia's remotest territory

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