15 PHOTOS proving Russia’s Far East should be your next travel destination!
It’s not easy to get to the mysterious and far Russian Far East. But, if only you’ve managed to cross the whole of Siberia and have found yourself on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, you will find incredible contact with wildlife, volcanoes and rocks.
1. Volcano craters on the Kuril island of Iturup.
2. Lake in the caldera of Golovnin volcano on the Kuril island of Kunashir.
3. A fox on the Kuril island of Iturup.
4. Iturup Island coast as seen from above.
5. These White Cliffs on Iturup Island on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk were formed tens of thousands of years ago after an underwater volcanic eruption.
6. A brown bear hunting salmon in the Kuril Islands.
7. A sea lion rookery near the port of Nevelsk in the Sea of Japan (East Sea).
8. Mysterious landscapes on the Sakhalin Island.
9. The rocky shore of Sakhalin Island.
10. The abandoned Aniva Lighthouse is one of the main attractions of Sakhalin Island.
11. Humpback whale emerging from the water by the shores of Kamchatka.
12. Fog descending in Chukotka.
13. A ringed seal, also known as an ‘akiba’, in the Bering Sea.
14. Cape Tobizina is the southernmost part of Russky Island in Primorsky Krai (not far from Vladivostok).
15. A rainbow appears over Lake Malyk in Magadan Region.
