Videos tagged with "kandalaksha"

Travel report, Kola Peninsula 2011 [02:32]
Travel report, Kola Peninsula 2011 The Team: Vidar, designated off-road driver. Jon, co - driver and responsible route planner. Tobias: highway driver and conciliator. The Off-Road Vehicle Toyota Land Cruiser HJ60 (1984) - BGF AT tires, with one spare - Warn winch - ARB diff locks in rear axles - Old Man Emu HD suspension - Original tank of 90L with additional extra 20L - Car extension tent and additional ground tent. (additional equipment included; satellite phone, shovel, first aid kit, hi-jack, GPS) The Trip: Our initial thoughts for travelling was to join a larger group of fellow travellers from an off-road society, however, due to limited number of entrants and based on our past experience -- we decided in the end, to make it up on our own, a second trip to the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia. From our first Russian trip, we had managed to save some maps providing great granularity of the territory information, combined with our own research and digital equipment -- we not only got great insight of the field and routes but made several key outtakes for waypoints navigating us in the rough nature. The journey started off from Sweden, we took the boat to Finland, and from there we moved, quite aggressively driving, to Salla. Salla, a city in northern Finland, which is situated close to the border to Russia. After an overwhelming time of waiting and going through custom and inspection -- we entered into Russian territory in less than 38 hours. In short, our journey ...
Tags: Kola, Peninsula, Expedition, ride, offroad, Adventure, Arctic, 4x4, Polar, Off-road, travel, action, mud, tundra, Kirovsk, Kandalaksha, Revda, Salla, Varzuga, Russia, Umba, off-roaders, Toyota, Land, Cruiser, Defender, BJ40, HJ60, ARB, diff, locks, canon,

Previat , Russia!!! (Music: Duck Song/Instrumental) [02:41]
The City of Kandalaksha in Russia renewed my opinion about the union. Being one of the independent states of the former communist country, people of Kandalaksha are slowly rising when it comes to economic stability. The place is known for it's coal mining and of course, the endangered white whale or beluga.
Tags: kandalaksha, russia, independent, states, communist, coal mining, whale, beluga





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