YSYAKH FESTIVAL
Once a year in late June an enormous festival called Ysyakh takes place in every settlement across Yakutia in honour of the gods and the rebirth of nature after the long winter. The biggest such festival is at Us Khatyn near Yakutsk. Nigh on 100,000 people come from all over Yakutia, and it goes on for two days with religious ceremonies, traditional sports such as horse racing, Yakut wrestling and tug of war, all night traditional improvised dancing called Osoukhay and much drinking of kumis (fermented horse milk).
A visit to Ysyakh can be done as a stand-alone trip, or can be added onto the beginning or end of the following pre-made itineraries:
A visit to Ysyakh can be done as a stand-alone trip, or can be added onto the beginning or end of the following pre-made itineraries:
This trip takes travellers to two different ethnic groups – indigenous yakut horse herders in Khangalasskiy district of Yakutia and indigenous evenki reindeer herders in Aldanskiy district. The horse herders live in log cabins in the forest and travel around on wooden sledges pulled by their animals. The reindeer herders live in a mixture of log cabins and tents, and travel on sledges pulled by reindeer.
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
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