Caravanistan

Is it enough to arrive in Turkmenbashi the morning of the day I need to exit? I wouldn't do that without a bus or a taxi, although there are not so many km from turkmenbashi to the border with kazakhstan, it is a very slow trip. And is there transport Turkmenbashi to Aktau? I read about a share jee...

They didn't do that to me.. just the mp3 device, because je wanted it fr himself.

Hello! This is Jordi from Barcelona! I started my trip 9 months ago now and for central asia caravanistan was just necessary. Thanks a lot. I went first in west Africa and then from Turkey to China. Where I'm going? Maybe back home now, I don't really know jaja When I am motivated to go to some plac...

Hi Yun, I had the same concerns as you regarding the Turkmenistan transit visa but as Steven says and already said to me in some other post, they understand you don't need visa to Kazakhstan. The guy in the Turkmenistan embassy in Tehran asked me to write on my handwriten letter a ps stating that sp...

Hi Miri, I did the opppsite route changing your Uzbekistan for Kazakhstan. Here are my thoughts. I think you over budgeted a little bit but it's ok if you want to do all the activities you say. I won't discuss that because on my side, I hichhicked all the way, taking some buses in Iran to go around ...

On my hitchhicking trip from Osh to Dushanbe through the Kargush pass, I got stucked for a while in the checkpoint. End of September. Smilar to Cam experience. Two young soldiers, one with big gun. It was early morning, they were finishing bothering a NZ cycler and they had all the time of the world...

This is a report for the 5800km from Tehran to Almaty in 13 days from the 11th to the 23th of August 2016. Hichhiking almost all the way (one train and 2 'taxis'. I decided to cross Iran to Turkmenistan from Bagjiran but the border pass was closed. At least in my direction. They said for one week bu...

Yesterday I got my visa for five days, spanish passport. I applyied on 10/07/2016 and yesterday I gave my passport to the guy when they finally opened the window and I was told to wait. 10 minutes later I was paying with not really nice dollar notes and got my passport back with my visa on it. Note ...

Got my visa yesterday 90 days + 90 days with spanish passport. Requested in the 10th of july. When I applyied the girl asked me for how long I wanted to stay in China and when I said 90 days said that she would try to get them. There was no question about the 3 months validity before entrering China...

Hi! The following is an update for spanish passports. I send an email a couple or three days before going to Tehran. They didn't reply. I went anyway and asked for the letter. You don't have to do the visas queue, you can enter though the main door. Ask the diplomatic police guy outside if you have ...