Caravanistan

Crossed the border 3 days ago and it went smooth as always. What is worth mentioning is that there was a Polish guy in front of me who talked his way into the country without a visa. Polish citizens need a visa for Kazakhstan. But he just told the immigration that he gets 15 days on arrival. Immigra...

I asked the embassy in Almaty, they said it's not possible to change the dates.
You'll have to get a new visa

How are the border guards at this crossing? Lazy, jolly, and try to offer me to shoot their AK-47 like the Kyrgyz and tajik guards? Or strict as fuck and ready to give full cavity searches? I think it's always about to change I guess. Maybe I can shoot the AK during the cavity search Ps Is this a 24...

Sat. 11 June, 2016
Still closed.
So is the other one near Khorog

Hey everyone, My uzbek visa will expire on the 25th of july. And I'd like to cross the Kazakhstan border that day and continue my journey to Aktau. I'm always hitchhiking, so date specific things are not my favourite things. Is there lots of trafic between Kungirot (UZ) And Beyneu (KZ) ? It looks li...

Road quality in China?
Best roads I've seen in my whole life.
And that's no sarcasm

You can haggle the price down. They charged me 75 dollars with a 4 day waiting time. asked if I could get it cheaper and faster. I gave the embassy lady my cutest look, and she said "ok, 50 dollars, come back tomorrow morning" And it was 100 som for the GBAO permit. The GBAO permit is a whole page c...

They told me "come Back tomorrow" every day for a week in may (2016) Turns out it was closed for the whole beginning of may. Then I finally got my appointment, waited 3 hours, and I got the same treatment as hugh. "Just fly to Iran from Uzbekistan" But I want to travel by land "Ok here's what you ca...

Dutch passport, filled in the form just like how they wanted. Wrote the letter just like they said. They assured me everything was alright. Had to call back every day 3 times for about a week and a half. And got refused in the end without a reason. Ok Turkmenistan, after applying at 3 different emba...