10 Coldest Vacation Spots
| January 23, 2015
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8. Yakutsak, Russia
You may have already guessed that Russia is pretty cold, but this Siberian city claims to be the coldest in the world. Yakutsak is filled with our typical image of fur-clad locals, and visitors can take in preserved wooly mammoth specimens and other icy wonders at the city’s Mammoth Museum and Underground Laboratory of the Institute of Cryogenics.
If you’re hoping to make a trip here and want the full effect, don’t arrive in the summer expecting snow. In July, the climate reaches upwards of 70° F, so a winter month is a must if you’re looking to test whether or not Yakutsak lives up to its name.
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