Caravanistan

Hi, I have searched previous posts and the caravanistan page but couldn't find anything relating to this: my husband and I are currently in Iran and planning to go to Georgia next. We have just come from armenia, so he (australian) has already had a single entry tourist visa - can we transit armenia...

Hi everyone, seems that a new law was passed last year but has not been enforced until last week, banning tourists from going to areas within 25 kms of the border, including places like Big Almaty Lake, Charyn Canyon, Kolsay and Kaindy Lakes and possibly Medeu and Shymbulak without a special permit....

We crossed from Shymkent - Tashkent at Chernaevka. 1. Shymkent - Chernaevka. When trains arrive there are plenty of taxi drivers looking for Chernaevka. You can either go with them or go to the Staryi Avtovoksal which is very close to the train station (a taxi should not cost more than 200 tenge - m...

We applied for the Turkmen transit visa at the Embassy in Almaty. We had an application form from the internet filled in and ready to go, but he wouldn't accept that one - needed a form that he provided, and we filled it in, together with a separate form, 2 passport photos and colour photos of the f...