You’re probably familiar with the concept of a ferry. You’re driving along, and come to a body of water. You’re car obviously can’t cross the water, so you drive onto a ferry which takes you to the other side and you continue your journey. While we naturally associate ferries with water, it isn’t really that there is water that must be crossed that necessitates a ferry as much as just an area which cannot be forded. This is the case in some parts of remote Russia.

As shown by these pictures from englishrussia.com, there are some stretches of road that are simply too muddy for normal vehicles to traverse. So, they have land ferries.

As you can see, this truck is definitely not messing around.

Even the venerable Land Cruiser seems to be having some difficulty. This land ferry just goes to show that it’s always the little differences between places that are most amusing…