We called Artur, the driver for Oymyakon on Monday. "Only Tuesday from 9am is possible" was the answere. He is coming from Oymyakon to pick us up, so we are going there one day later. Tamara in Oymyakon also knows that we'll arrive a day later than planned. We are still happy that he'll drive because Tuyara asked him to pick up two Germans, we also called him and Artur thought there would be four people to take to Oymyakon. Sorry, for this double communication, but finally we will make it.
After this we decided to ask for registration in the post office. COMPLICATED. We probably need to check in a hotel when we come back from Oymyakon otherwise it's nearly impossible to register here. But good to find ouut before they keep us here to carry on building the "Street of death" to Magadan.
Must be our museum day, so we decided to go to the Museum for northern people of Yakutia, which was nice to see, also the mammoth Dima as a dummy and some skeletons from mom Dima. We got a good overview on the animals which are living here and the people's history. But after 1 hours we got that hot with our clothes in this museum, we needed to leave. We met Semyon, Andrew and another friend, they all study languages in order to become interpreters. What a luck - maybe for future projects in this area. But he will help with the Ewen and Ewenik issue, when we come back from Oymyakon.
The good thing of today is we reached the -41°C here and are heading for -55°C at the "Pole of Cold" from tuesday. To be continued ....
Saturday, 7. January 2012
DAY 5 and 6 - Mammoth and frozen Shutter
DAY 6 - Large Format Portraits
I got up and worked at the computer in the kittchen, which is the next door to our sleeping room. Actually Thomas and me were wondering that in our sleeping room are some electrical sockets coverd with paper which somehow looked burned. But ther must be a reason and should be okay then. Today we got to know that pluging in my computer in the socket in the kitchen, causes that sparkes appeared like a little firework in our bedroom. We didn't know why and spend a couple of minutes to find out how to stop it and were happy that 2 days before when I used the same socket in the kitchen, the house didn't burn down. Lucky ones.
Today I asked the family to make large format Portraits 13x18cm with the camera Thomas brought.
So we went out at -38°C after 2minutes I couldn't get out the light-meter from the leather case, because it was totally frozen and seemed to break, but anyway we start taking the photographs. For 20 minutes everything was okay, then we realized the shutter is totally frozen and we went back to the appartment with all together to warm up. The camera was pure Ice.
DAY 5 - DIMA
Permafrost in Yakutsk, icy the ground - frost from sky. Of course we must go to see a mammoth, when we are once here, so we decided to go to the Permafrost-Institut by bus. The last stop of line 19, we got off and were happy to see the sun was showing up, after the last foggy days, we took some pictures. Finding an instituts entrance is sometimes harder than you think, but if you surround a building you could find a door where woman welcoms you a kind of disappointed because you are late and missed the guidance tour which started some minutes ago. When she send you out in the garden of snow and tells you to take some picture and to wait for at least 30 minutes, you start doing this. She was kind and we felt like back in the school times. Finally she called us back, earlier then we thought and we met the group before us, they were very excited and told us the guide is a professional, the were happy to hear we are from Germany and we started. After going down, the stairs in the cellar, we entered the Permafrost. The guide stopped in front of a vitrine and uncovered a blanket. A baby mammoth, DIMA. She was found in this area. Exciting, to see the past, somehow, it looked like made of sandstone. We took a pictures and followed. He guided us some stairs more down and showed us some areas which the river Lene went through millions of years ago. Some teeth of mammoth, which he turned around several times - we were wondering. But on the way back we found out the real DIMA is in St. Petersburg, we only saw a Dummy.
We decided to go to meet Sakiko, an japanese teacher who was send to Yakutsk from the japanese government. She is living in a teachers dormitory and offered that we also can stay there when we come back from Oymyakon. Great offer. she can also help to find Even people and had some useful contacts to people who know about secondary bookstores.
2 hours later we met Vasiliy, who also offered help in Oymyakon and with the taxi, but since Tuyara organized everything, we appreciate his help, but everything was done.
It was christmas but somehow the people didn't celebrate that much, it'ss because the majority is Yakut people they celebrate new year more, christmas doesn't have this meaning in their culture. But still we checked the orthodox church, after passing the police, who checked our bags. The ceremony started at 12am, so we decided to go home, the tempreture was around 30°C.
I got up and worked at the computer in the kittchen, which is the next door to our sleeping room. Actually Thomas and me were wondering that in our sleeping room are some electrical sockets coverd with paper which somehow looked burned. But ther must be a reason and should be okay then. Today we got to know that pluging in my computer in the socket in the kitchen, causes that sparkes appeared like a little firework in our bedroom. We didn't know why and spend a couple of minutes to find out how to stop it and were happy that 2 days before when I used the same socket in the kitchen, the house didn't burn down. Lucky ones.
Today I asked the family to make large format Portraits 13x18cm with the camera Thomas brought.
So we went out at -38°C after 2minutes I couldn't get out the light-meter from the leather case, because it was totally frozen and seemed to break, but anyway we start taking the photographs. For 20 minutes everything was okay, then we realized the shutter is totally frozen and we went back to the appartment with all together to warm up. The camera was pure Ice.
DAY 5 - DIMA
Permafrost in Yakutsk, icy the ground - frost from sky. Of course we must go to see a mammoth, when we are once here, so we decided to go to the Permafrost-Institut by bus. The last stop of line 19, we got off and were happy to see the sun was showing up, after the last foggy days, we took some pictures. Finding an instituts entrance is sometimes harder than you think, but if you surround a building you could find a door where woman welcoms you a kind of disappointed because you are late and missed the guidance tour which started some minutes ago. When she send you out in the garden of snow and tells you to take some picture and to wait for at least 30 minutes, you start doing this. She was kind and we felt like back in the school times. Finally she called us back, earlier then we thought and we met the group before us, they were very excited and told us the guide is a professional, the were happy to hear we are from Germany and we started. After going down, the stairs in the cellar, we entered the Permafrost. The guide stopped in front of a vitrine and uncovered a blanket. A baby mammoth, DIMA. She was found in this area. Exciting, to see the past, somehow, it looked like made of sandstone. We took a pictures and followed. He guided us some stairs more down and showed us some areas which the river Lene went through millions of years ago. Some teeth of mammoth, which he turned around several times - we were wondering. But on the way back we found out the real DIMA is in St. Petersburg, we only saw a Dummy.
We decided to go to meet Sakiko, an japanese teacher who was send to Yakutsk from the japanese government. She is living in a teachers dormitory and offered that we also can stay there when we come back from Oymyakon. Great offer. she can also help to find Even people and had some useful contacts to people who know about secondary bookstores.
2 hours later we met Vasiliy, who also offered help in Oymyakon and with the taxi, but since Tuyara organized everything, we appreciate his help, but everything was done.
It was christmas but somehow the people didn't celebrate that much, it'ss because the majority is Yakut people they celebrate new year more, christmas doesn't have this meaning in their culture. But still we checked the orthodox church, after passing the police, who checked our bags. The ceremony started at 12am, so we decided to go home, the tempreture was around 30°C.
Thursday, 5. January 2012
Juergen
fresh frozen Fishes
prepared for Oymyakon, Juergen and Thomas
-35 °C (only in Winter)
DAY 4 - The other sound of Yakutsk
Strange sounds - Animal? Water? Wind through the window?
I closed my eyes and fell asleep again. Completely darkness at 9:30 in the morning, but sunrise will come soon, we had breakfast and made a plan what to do this day. I decided to test my equipment for Oymyakon and put all the stuff i need in my vest. With all my equipment under my jacket I looked like the Michelin-Man and a terrorist at the same time. But what an artist must do , must be done, so We went out with the idea of finding the bus-station to get some ideas how to find a taxi to Oymyakon. We took bus number 16and got off after a nice woman told us our station. When people tell you, that you should check the TV and the underlining "News" for the Taxi-Announcments for Oymyakon, you start thinking. So we did. shall we watchh TV?
We went through an Amusement park in snow instead, everything was frozen. The appointment for the day was a meeting with Tuyara who made a reservation for the place to stay in Oymyakon, also has some people who are driving to Oymyakon. The equipment worked perfect - but never go from -30 degrees to +25 degrees witha camera, without expecting little crytals around the little photo-maschine.
Da Vinci was the Cafe we met Tuyara in. Informations...
Around 9pm we were in the apartment preparing to go to the internet place, something was quick "falling" under our bed. For a christmas decoration, very active. "I saw her" Thomas said and had exe-contact with the MAUS which probably also visited us also at night-time. New day, new friends, tomorrow is christmas here, with or without mouse.
I closed my eyes and fell asleep again. Completely darkness at 9:30 in the morning, but sunrise will come soon, we had breakfast and made a plan what to do this day. I decided to test my equipment for Oymyakon and put all the stuff i need in my vest. With all my equipment under my jacket I looked like the Michelin-Man and a terrorist at the same time. But what an artist must do , must be done, so We went out with the idea of finding the bus-station to get some ideas how to find a taxi to Oymyakon. We took bus number 16and got off after a nice woman told us our station. When people tell you, that you should check the TV and the underlining "News" for the Taxi-Announcments for Oymyakon, you start thinking. So we did. shall we watchh TV?
We went through an Amusement park in snow instead, everything was frozen. The appointment for the day was a meeting with Tuyara who made a reservation for the place to stay in Oymyakon, also has some people who are driving to Oymyakon. The equipment worked perfect - but never go from -30 degrees to +25 degrees witha camera, without expecting little crytals around the little photo-maschine.
Da Vinci was the Cafe we met Tuyara in. Informations...
Around 9pm we were in the apartment preparing to go to the internet place, something was quick "falling" under our bed. For a christmas decoration, very active. "I saw her" Thomas said and had exe-contact with the MAUS which probably also visited us also at night-time. New day, new friends, tomorrow is christmas here, with or without mouse.
Crystals
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