Hallo there,

I am planning a trip round the world next summer, and the plan is to go Road of Bones, and to Magada. From there I was planning to go to Alaska, but found out that Air Magadan is not flying anymore. Do you have any suggestions ! By air, by boat, by fishing boats, UPS, etc. etc. ??? I will be there in end of July og beginning August.


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I am also keen to see replies to this one!

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Hi. This is a trip that I have wanted to do ever since reading about Mondo Enduro in Bike Magazine in 1996 but at the moment I have too many family responsibilities for a long trip.

The way I see it is that you can’t get a flight direct from Magadan to Alaska but (forgive me if I am stating the obvious) you can fly out of Magadan to other destination(s). I am not sure of the exact details of all flights from Magadan but you can certainly get to Moscow and from Moscow you can fly to most places. However this would not be a cheap option.

You may be able to get to some other destinations from Magadan but I can’t see much on the web but a phone call to Magadan Airport should give you some clues.

There must be boats coming & going from Magadan but you may not be able to get a direct crossing to Alaska. You may have to somewhere else like, say, Yuzhno or perhaps Japan. I can see no reason why you should not be able to get from Magadan to Alaska but you might have to go via one or more other destination to get there. There is no easy cheap option but perhaps you should start with: Where can you get to from Magadan? And then work out the best way from one of the next destinations to Alaska rather than looking for direct routes.

hi

I am planning to drive through Turkey, into 'stans, Mongolia, Russia and then to Canada.
Also planning same timescale, i.e. Mongolia in July then across to Magadan, probably aiming to get to Magadan by end August begin Sept.

I AM NOT on a motorbike (ahh luxury of a bed and kitchen on board !!). I have an off-road prepared 4x4 ex military iveco truck (think - landrover with luxury)

obviously flying never viable for me. So I looked into (briefly) the possibility of 'ferry' or container ship.
There are companies running regular services shipping containers back n forth between Russia and certainly Vancouver.
Now the 'rent a container' idea is commonly used for us 4x4 people to get vehicles to or back from Africa so it's not an obscure off the wall idea.
Basically, you rent a box (40 ft long) and put whatever you like in so a truck and a few motorbikes could stack up as a viable option.

FESCO ( ZacharyV-little a in a circle-FESCO.com - could be an out of date contact though ) was the name of the company offering this weekly route and price was ball park figure of say $6 to $6.5k.
My hope would be to perhaps travel on board the ship with vehicle but company won't 'officially' sanction this (i.e may be possible but needs arranging at port ( i.e. back hander to captain of ship !!)).

Give it some thought, could be viable.
Check out FESCO see what info you can get (mine may be out of date).

Phil.

Many 'freighters' take passengers in small numbers. It might be possible to take a bike as 'luggage'.

I believe at present there are no airlines and no services connecting Eastern Russia direct with North America. In the past there have been direct flights from Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Magadan ...

Your best bet now is probably to fly the bike to Khabarovsk, and then take Korean Airlines from Khabarovsk to Seoul and then to Anchorage.

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how are your plans progressing ?
Have you had any luck with arranging to get your bikes over to Canada?

Phil!

My sponsors backed out!!!
That would have been fun though.
So as of 2 weeks I'll just drive up to NY load my vehicle and go by boat myself, pick it upp in england and drive home to Sweden.
I was compiling an e-mail list to a bunch of russian air-cargo lines, the day before the main sponsor decided to get cheap.

I was going to write them all (in one e-mail) and ask them for prices.
If you want I can send you the list of e-mails and the website I found them on. (Hope I still have it).

Really good that guys like you exist, that way I can point my finger towards you and say "he does it as well"/"this is rather normal".

Hope you get to do it soon!

hi

bad news on the sponsor, i could do with one of those! where do you find them!!!!!!

would very much appreciate that list of russian freight contacts.

thanks.


(one day my wanderings will lead me to sweden !

phil.

For sponsors, I just e-mail them with a presentation of the idea.
Tha main sponsor in this project was Mitsubishi sweden, since it was a Mitsubishi Suv I was planning on using.
Since they were going to cover 80% the rest is no big deal.

I don't know which companies in your country are keen to the idea of sponsorship but there ought to be a few.
Tire and oil manufacturers are given. Perhaps some gps-company gives away a gps.
I guess it depends a lot of the presentation given to them if they accept or not. And then again, sometimes they back out.....ouch!

I have pm:d the list of e-mails. I don't post it here since e-mails on webpages generate spam. So I'll save them further spam, by not posting them here.

Cheers!