{"id":1433,"date":"2018-07-28T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.justamotoride.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2018-08-14T06:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T06:26:19","slug":"riding-the-bam-road-crossing-the-vitim-river-bridge-and-day-5-to-taksimo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justamotoride.com\/?p=1433","title":{"rendered":"Riding the BAM Road – Crossing the Vitim River Bridge and Day 5 to Taksimo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arriving at the famous Vitim River bridge sun rays were shinning through the clouds creating a dramatic feeling overlooking the daunting bridge. The Vitim Bridge is renowned to be one of the most dangerous road bridges in the world, about half a kilometer long and 15 meters high over the fast-flowing Vitim River. One of the major supporting pillars got washed away a few months ago, leading to the bridge officially being closed. There is no other way over and we were determined to take on the challenge of crossing the famous bridge anyway!<\/p>\n

At first our plan was to camp at the river and cross the next morning, but locals had told us there was a bear in the area. Thinking that this time we would just ignore this and get on with it, we started looking for a place to set up camp.. and found bear poop all over the place. So we decided that it would be better to camp on the other side of the river and cross the bridge straight away. Probably better anyway \u2013 then we don\u2019t have so much time to think about it!<\/p>\n