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hSo I hitchhiked 7000km across Siberia... with only 30 bucks
Hi so I thought it would be interesting to share my experience from camping, hiking and hitchhiking in Siberia. Im Jan from Poland and last summer I hitchhiked 15000 km from Poland to Vietnam, across Russia Mongolia and China.
Most of my trip I camped in the forest. Siberia is an extremly wild and still unexplored place. If you go off the main road and hike for a couple of hours you will most likely find yourself in a place where no human being was before. Hiking there feels very genuine. No one hikes there. Russians have a completely diffrent mindset. Their everyday life is based around nature and they don't feel the need to hike and explore. Many of the mountains you see in the russian far east are not even named and never have been reached.
Hiking overall is much more rewarding but so much tougher then it is in the west, with all the trails and infrastructure. There are almost no trails in Siberia. It is often more difficult to get to a remote mountain then to hike the mountain itself.
I was surprised by the amount of swamps and insects. It turns out the biggest peatland in the world is located in Siberia, its the Vasyugan Swamp wich is almost the size of Ireland. The best way to navigate through Siberia is to use the huge rivers running from south to north. Thats how Russians used to explore Siberia back when they were colonizing this huge area.
**Hiking there feels like being at the edge of the world**
Feel free to checkt out my Youtube where I documented the whole trip
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHQ8\_bP6jUEUDiYSh53I6Rw ttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHQ8_bP6jUEUDiYSh53I6Rw
https://preview.redd.it/cxr7wdrcldpd1.jpg?width=5924&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc2b66f42a199ca3a493d812beeb0ade9845e2f2
#camping #activity #hiking
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Hi so I thought it would be interesting to share my experience from camping, hiking and hitchhiking in Siberia. Im Jan from Poland and last summer I hitchhiked 15000 km from Poland to Vietnam, across Russia Mongolia and China.
Most of my trip I camped in the forest. Siberia is an extremly wild and still unexplored place. If you go off the main road and hike for a couple of hours you will most likely find yourself in a place where no human being was before. Hiking there feels very genuine. No one hikes there. Russians have a completely diffrent mindset. Their everyday life is based around nature and they don't feel the need to hike and explore. Many of the mountains you see in the russian far east are not even named and never have been reached.
Hiking overall is much more rewarding but so much tougher then it is in the west, with all the trails and infrastructure. There are almost no trails in Siberia. It is often more difficult to get to a remote mountain then to hike the mountain itself.
I was surprised by the amount of swamps and insects. It turns out the biggest peatland in the world is located in Siberia, its the Vasyugan Swamp wich is almost the size of Ireland. The best way to navigate through Siberia is to use the huge rivers running from south to north. Thats how Russians used to explore Siberia back when they were colonizing this huge area.
**Hiking there feels like being at the edge of the world**
Feel free to checkt out my Youtube where I documented the whole trip
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHQ8\_bP6jUEUDiYSh53I6Rw ttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHQ8_bP6jUEUDiYSh53I6Rw
https://preview.redd.it/cxr7wdrcldpd1.jpg?width=5924&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc2b66f42a199ca3a493d812beeb0ade9845e2f2
#camping #activity #hiking
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