Caravanistan

Hi, crossed today from Azerbaijan to Georgia. Spanish and Russian passports. We started the trip in Ganja. The hotel clerks were sure that the border was closed and that we were crazy to try, but gently ordered a taxi for about 56 azn. It takes about 2.5 h to reach the border, there is a lot of cons...

Hi Li Via, thanks for the story, seems like a very normal experience. I think I will risk it and try to exit by land. Probably thorugh the other border crossing to the North near the mountains.

Regards,

Antonio

Hi Livia! Thanks for sharing!! Do you know if we once enter azerbaijan via caspian sea can we leave azerbaijan/enter iran also via land border? Whats your plan/next country? Thanks Flora Hi, we left AZ towards Georgia by land without any problems. I can’t say something about Iran on my own experien...

Hi, back to Caravanistan after a couple of years! Being a seasoned traveller, I bought a flight ticket to Baku hoping to later get to Tblisi by road thinking that the whole covid craze was over. Now I see the land borders are closed. I want to exit so that might be easier, but hard to say. There see...

I was there last August. Recieved the Chinese visa in my country without mentioning that I was going to visit the region. I had Turkish stamps and that was no problem. If I was a concertina wire manufacturer, the region would be paradise, but being a regular tourist, I cannot say I liked it. For a S...

Hi, I wouldn't say that the road between Ashgabat-Derweze is 100% bad. It is good for the first tens of kms, then it is OK, then its terrible. I have a gps log, I can check average speeds if you are interested.

You can add Konye-Urgench to Dasoguz as good.

The LOI was provided after booking a 5-day tour with Stantours. Around 1000$ if I remember correctly. The local agency was very professional and I recommend them.

The Syrian war is about to finish, in a year or so, the rebels in the Idlib pocket will be crushed, and some of the Uyghurs living there will survive and will come back to the PRC to start trouble. I guess this surge is a reaction of what they are expecting. Next year I want to go there and finish m...

I have not slept in the countryside in the Stans except for Derceve. When I was researching the trip it looked like the best spot for jihadis to attack foreigners and record some nasty but photogenic videos with the crater in the back. But then you get there and see how there are checkpoints everywh...

Wow, 50000 soms notes. I only saw a few 10000 notes, did not even knew these existed.