The world’s most beautiful of its kind: the Great Moma Naled. (opens in new tab)

Next on our Irkutsk-Yakutsk-Magadan-Yakutsk winter road trip, it was high time we headed off into the deepest backwoods (so – backwoods of backwoods!), where you can go a whole day’s drive without meeting a single other car. Where? The Khonuu-Sasyr winter road – but more on that shortly. Why? Simple: it’s how you get the Moma Natural Park. Why there? Simple: (i) it’s where the most magnificent naleds are; and (ii) it’s where there are no fewer than two (2!) Yakutian volcanoes! Yep – real volc...