Our night in Magadan Siberia, extended to a second night

Here we are, after a wet refueling for all planes we are on our way to the hotel, named "Hotel Madagan".

We are in Siberia and in the former "Gulag Post"

Almost twice the size of Portugal, the sparsely-populated Magadan Region is home to just 100,000 people who endure its harsh climate. It is rich in natural resources, but is also notorious for its sad, cruel past.

Located in Russia’s Far East and surrounded by mountains, the place is so remote that no train lines or roads reach it: one can only get here by sea or plane.

This was Russia’s El Dorado: full of gold, silver, tin and other resources. The main city in the region is Magadan, which is a port on the Sea of Okhotsk, and which served as a major transit center for prisoners sent to Stalin's labor camps.

The whole area is steeped with memories of the GULAG times [GULAG – Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies], and the history of the region itself started with labor camps, in their cold barracks.

When gold was discovered here at the end of the 1920s, the Soviet government developed a vast network of labor camps, which exploited more than 2 million prisoners and exiles.

Checkin organized, but not much english spoken

The rooms are far from the Aman Resort theme

We found the Green Crocodile as a restaurant fr the evening and did enjoy some good meals. I did buy some wine in Japan and we brought it along. Turn out that the chef has travel quite a lot to Europe and Paris and was a pretty good cook.