mercredi 15 août 2012

Aug 12-14 Sakhaline Island

Arriving in Sakhaline, the bikers from Vanino we met yesterday already called friends here and one is waiting for us.
Oleg, another extremely welcoming biker help us - as well he saw our interview on tv
Terrible hotel but we are so tired of the journey on the crap ship.
12th our host organize a bike trip in the mountains thru an old muddy route made by the Japanese when they owned sakhaline. The track cross a dense rainforest with a completely different vegetation that looks like the one in south east Asia.lot of river crossing , and slippery stretched
It is raining but temperature is very hot we have a lot of fun
Matteo has a flat we have to fix, and fall down damaging his leg and foot,it is his turn to have bandage and cream..
Brown Bears everywhere here, i hear that they kill 2 people a year in the wild island bigger than Italy
I like sakhaline, very wild
The local motoclub invite us for a coffee , in it's weird local where old stuff are everywhere, mixing balalaika and Kalashnikov..
It is raining like hell
The main city of the island grows like hell as there is an increasing off shore oil activity in the region
We stay here waiting for the ferry and starting to organize the shipment of the bikes to Europe.
I hope they will leave us entering Japan with the bikes- as I don't have the import papers ..
We spend the last night in Russia in khorzakov , southern port of sakhaline , stranges remains of the soviet era - japan is only 40km away , and here , until USSR collapsed , missiles were pointed toward Japan.

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