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Sunday trip.

2010-11-04T23:49:00.000-07:00

For several weekends I wasn't outside city. This Sunday on the occasion of the beautiful weather has decided that can't wait any more! :)

Together with my girlfriend we decided to go to Zvenigorod (to the south from L'vov).

In these places, runs an oil pipeline Druzhba.

then moving offroad we drove to Svirzh castle.

On the way home ...

Trip to Crimea on Lada Niva. Part 5 - Arabat Spit.

2010-09-08T09:11:00.000-07:00

After Koktebel we decided to leave the Crimea by Arabat Spit. Spent the night right on it, under a bright moon and the blowing wind.

In the morning we woke up early because of mosquitoes and flies, so we decided to quickly go from there until we are not eaten alive :)

The road was horrible, was feeling like driving on washboard.

Trip to Crimea on Lada Niva. Part 4 - Koktebel and further to east.

2010-09-07T04:18:00.000-07:00

Further from the base camp we went to east.

At first we have visited tract Panageya with mountain lake.

On road to Koktebel there was several nice views.

In Koktebel We have bought a tickets on boat for trip around the ancient volcanic massif - Kara-Dag.

Old telescope on the beach near the village Kurortnoe.

Trip to Crimea on Lada Niva. Part 3 - Top Crimean road.

2010-09-05T08:45:00.000-07:00

While returning from Kastropol to base camp, I decided to drive old top Crimean road.

Trip to Crimea on Lada Niva. Part 2 - Kastropol.

2010-09-05T07:51:00.000-07:00

Next trip from base camp I made to Kastropol. In my childhood parents brings me there almost every summer.

Сonservation area, fires prohibited!

Preserve nature!

Border Outpost.

As for me Kastropol is the best place in Crimea for vacation in a tent near the sea.

In the distance we can see the Cape Foros.

There is Muholatka village to the west of Castropol. Father told me that in Soviet times there was a recreation center for the astronauts.

Kastropol in the evening.

Last view before leaving Kastropol :)

Trip to Crimea on Lada Niva. Part 1 - On east from Yalta.

2010-09-05T05:07:00.000-07:00

This summer I decided to go to Crimea on my SUV - Lada Niva. Before I was afraid that in such long trip I will have a lot of troubles with Niva, but I was wrong. It appears that even in such long trip Niva is very reliable SUV :)

At first we go to our friends "base camp" near Privetnoe village on east from Alushta.

That territory looks just like north Israel, Golan Heights. The same bare mountains with poor vegetation.

The only benefit of going here at first, was that using our SUVs we can drive through bad mountain road to the beach with almost nobody.

Further I went to east to see the old soviet factory for building torpedoes for military ships.

Typical east Crimean landscape :)

Tarakanov Fortress

2010-07-20T01:42:00.000-07:00

Unique fort situated near the Dubno town in Rovno district in village Tarakanov in 170 km from Lvov. It was built at the end of 19 century near the border with Austria-Hungary empire. The opening was attended by Emperor Alexander III. It's much bigger then Brest Fortress, but wasn't used for the purpose.

Fort is a rhombus with side length up to 240m, surrounded by ramparts around a height of about 14m, which strengthened by brick walls with width 3m.

Along the perimeter of buildings there are casemates, which were intended mainly for fighting. Also there was a hospital, operating, morgue, toilets, three wells, ammunition depots.

There are many underground passages, trap doors, the remnants of the former traps on the lower floors. It is not desirable for a walk without a guide, which in time will warn about dangerous places.

Now all of the underground entrances are concreted. No one knows how much they are long and what is there. Construction is abandoned. Officially Tarakanov fort belongs to the Ministry of Defense and is on the balance of the local military unit.

Castle in Kremenets

2010-07-18T12:05:00.000-07:00

Ruins of castle in Kremenets on Bon mountain:

View of Kremenets from Bon mountain:

Trip to mountain valley Runa

2010-07-15T09:27:00.000-07:00

Old military base on the top

Views on the near by mountains

Wilde horses, probably from the national park Shypot that locates near by.

Lada Niva that bring us there :)

On the Voyevodin waterfall

North of Israel

2010-07-15T09:23:00.000-07:00

2010-05-25 | On the border with Lebanon

London at night

2010-07-15T09:17:00.000-07:00

In January I've been sent to business trip to UK. I've got a lot of work but found 3 hours for visiting London. Probably as usual it was rainy :)

Sunday offroading

2009-11-16T05:00:00.000-08:00

Not so far ago friends take me to drive on off-road. As they told me "There is simple road without asphalt for beginners". In real life it appears that this road is using only by real big trucks :) Even if you go there on SUV but you will be alone you can stuck there for a long time :)

Stuck again...

It's better to have a speed :)

Water obstacle. As friends told me "There is small puddle on the road" ..

Moving further

New rescue operation ...

If you tries to rescue some one you should be very careful, you can also stuck :)

Video from this trip you can see here:
http://nikitin-paul.livejournal.com/37288.html

View from the office

2009-10-09T05:51:00.000-07:00

Grey wall on the left is new automobile tunnel through Carmel mountain made by Chinese company.

Haifa at night.

2009-10-09T03:04:00.000-07:00

Haifa at night looks like Christmas tree :)

German colony at Haifa was built by German Templers in 1869.

Haifa is modern city:

Haifa is a city of docks:

Also Haifa is port:

Haifa is Chinese city ... actually it's not true but here in Israel are a lot of Chinese :) especially after second intifada.

Haifa view from Dan Panorama hotel

2009-10-06T10:43:00.001-07:00

Vienna's Airport

2009-10-05T02:54:00.001-07:00

I'm again in Vienna on my way to Israel. Because of absence of Schengen visa I have to wait in airport for 2.5 hours. So several cigarettes and hope time will go faster.

The first that I noticed during flying to Vienna is straight fields and a lot of wind turbines.

Notice how many cars parked in front of Vienna's airport.

Rubicon is crossed, ahead 3 weeks in Israel.

Golden "Kharkov"

2009-09-23T05:18:00.000-07:00

Kornjakt's tower in Lvov

2009-09-17T06:57:00.000-07:00

Was built in 1572—1578

In Carpathian Mountains.

2009-09-11T06:51:00.001-07:00

In Carpathian Mountains.

2009-09-11T06:51:00.000-07:00

Tango in Lvov

2009-09-11T06:48:00.000-07:00

Waterfall Voevodin. Carpathian Mountains.

2009-09-11T06:45:00.000-07:00

Church of St. Olha and Elizabeth, Lvov

2009-09-11T06:43:00.001-07:00

View from Trostjan. Carpathian Mountains.

2009-09-11T06:35:00.000-07:00

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2009-02-21T07:06:00.000-08:00

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2009-01-19T04:40:00.001-08:00

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2008-11-17T07:36:00.001-08:00

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2008-11-17T07:34:00.001-08:00

Vectorial maps for Garmin® GPS devices

2008-10-07T05:35:00.000-07:00

During looking for free vectorial maps, I've found interesting website:

Search free Garmin® maps by location

On this website click mouse on world map, to get list of maps which includes current place. After that you can press link 'show on map', to see territory cover by current map.

For uploading maps to GPS device you can use current freeware:
sendmap20.exe
homepage: http://cgpsmapper.com/

P.S.
you can run it in Linux using wine for generating file GMAPSUPP.IMG from several maps and then just copy this file to your devices by USB.

P.S.S.
http://mapcenter.cgpsmapper.com/
http://mapcenter2.cgpsmapper.com/