Caravanistan

Hi everyone, We were in Kazakhstan in the summer of 2017 and we visited the Kolsai and Kaindy lakes. Before visiting the lakes, we stayed in Saty, a small village near the lakes. Before doing the trip, we were trying to find information about lodging in Saty and we were not able to find anything so ...

Hi everyone, Just a quick information that could be useful: As Canadians, we were not able to buy tickets online with Tickets.kz because they accept only payments or credit cards from european banks. This said, this was not a problem with the Kazakh railway booking site. We were able to buy our tick...

Hi everyone, We are looking into doing a 9 to 10 day trek from At Jailoo to the South Inylchek glacier base camp starting in the first 10 days of July 2017 with a guide. We are in the process of getting some quotes with Turkestan Tour and Ak-Sai Travel and we wanted to know if anybody has a suggesti...

Hi everyone, My update on this border crossing: We crossed last Sunday (June 26th) and everything went well. So the border is open on the weekend! I can imagine long delays if there are a lot of people at the same time. Uzbek side is more thorough and much longer than tajik side (45 minutes vs 10 mi...

Hi everyone, Does anyone know if this border closes on the weekends? We would be crossing next Sunday and I would like to make sure it's open before we head all the way there! if somebody has a recent update on the schedule of this particular border, I would really appreciate it! Thank you in advanc...

Hi everyone, We are wondering if we should include a trekking in Jizeu (Geizev,Jisev) in our trip to Tajikistan. If we are already planning on trekking in the Fann Mountains, is it still worth it to include Jizeu? If you would have time for only one of the 2 (Jizeu vs Fann Mountains), which one woul...

Hi everyone, An update from 2 Canadians that applied for the Uzbek visa at the New York Consulate. We had no problem at all getting the visas. The passports were sent on Monday night by Fedex and we got them back Thursday morning of the same week. 90$US for a double entry 30-day visa. Only one bank ...

Hi Alovaddin,

Thank your very much for your reply; very helpful!

We will take all this into consideration!

Best regards,

Amélie

Hi everyone, I would be interested in hearing some feedback on that hiking route. I already did some research on the topic but I would like to hear somebody's experience, if possible. I am waiting for the PDF from Jan Bakker and considering the option of buying Bradt Tajikistan to get more informati...

Hi everyone, A little update from March 2016 from 2 Canadians for the Tajik embassy in Washington D.C.: -Costs: GBAO permit 50$ USD, Tourist visa 25$ USD. Payments made by bank drafts (they asked us for a separate 75$USD bank draft for each person). -We called to confirm the need of LOI and unfortun...