FACING THE OCEAN 2 - International Bikers' Meeting at Far East of Russia

THE PLACE OF PARTY

ZOLOTARY BAY

If you’ve decided to go visit the Pacific, you’ll definitely need the information below.

The place where your crazy fellow riders await for you is Zolotary bay. Pretty funny name, ah? Actually there is an official name of this place – Cozino bay (not casino though!), but this name is not that popular here. Zolotary is the one that you want to remember. It is about 200 km from Vladivostok, passed Nakhodka, and the place is very beautiful.

* The coordinates for your GPS - N42. 49.300 и E132. 47.995

In any case, with the word of mouth you can get far! First you can ask locals – “Kak doyekhat’ do goroda Nakhodka?” (How do I get to Nakhodka city?). Once in Nakhodka, go right and start asking people “Kak doyekhat’ do Zolotarei?” (How do I get to Zolotary bay?). You will reach this very bay in 10 km after you leave Nakhodka city. Cannot miss the place. :)))

A piece of advice.

If you are coming from the West part f our motherland, you don’t have to come to Vladivostok first, it’s easier to go straight to Nakhodka. If you are coming here from Khabarovsk side, than it will be better for you to take a left turn at Uglovaya towards Nakhodka. Although if you do have time and good will, come over to Vladivostok! We’ll be glad to see you here.

Another piece of advice…

Have a look at the map – see, there are two roads: red and green. The red one (along the seashore) will easily take to the party place, but the problem is that 10 kms of this road are under construction – clouds of dust and hundreds of bumps there.

And on the green route (turn left for Partizansk, passed Shkotovo village) you will get the following benefits:

1) a nice asphalted road

2) great rolling hills landscapes along the way

3) a chance to tie your hanky on The Tree and make a wish that will definitely come true (they say that the spirit of Sikhote Alin comes out in this place)

4) passing by a proud little town named New Moscow (must be interesting not only for Moscow people though)

This green road is 30 km longer than the red one, but it’s worth it!

Anyway, it’s up to you how do you get to Nakhodka.

By the way, be very careful on the green road at its crossing with Partizanskaya river – the bridge is metal and gets very slippery in wet weather. Obviously it was not a biker who built this bridge! :)

If you get to Vladivostok, look for this address right away: 117, Snegovaya Street, “Custom Club MS” (it’s a territory of 6th kilometer) – you are welcome here for a few days to rest. No charge, that is for free…:)

Information for those who are not on wheels:

Take a bus to Nakhodka city, than find your way to Zolotary bay by hitchhiking or a cab.

Don’t forget to bring your camping tent!

And a can or two of your best domestic beer…:)

And in addition to that you can read a letter of my buddy Lyokha Dovbysh regarding this part of the road:

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Hi, Sinus!

I have some great advice about getting to the Place. On your site you have a map with two routes leading to Zolotary Bay – one of them going along the shore straight to Nakhodka, the other one – via Partizansk city. The “straight” route is definitely no good – only for those who don’t mind inhaling the dust. And as for the Partizansky route, here’s a thing all guys should know about (both local and not): when you ride off the Vladivostok-Nakhodka highway (turn to the left right after Shkotovo village) be sure to refill (!!!) at the gasoline station you’ll be passing by. As you will see to the next station only in about 100-something kilometers!

Who knows how much fuel a bike might need. Just keep in mind that starting from this turn till Partizansk you’ll ride through sheer taiga! So they’d better fill up their tanks to the full at this station on the turn.

And another thing – I think it will be great to mark some places on the map as “sticky zones”, when everyone should be particularly attentive.

“Sticky zone” for the Partizansk route is the Sergeyevsky pass, and for Nakhodka route it’s the Amerikansky pass and a number of hairpin turns. The road to Hakhodka is mostly good and you tend to get relaxed riding on it – and if you’d better know about these dangerous surprises to keep riding…:(