Caravanistan

elynego wrote:any one got it when arriving in Turkmenistan via the Caspian ferry?

Yes, with no issues - we arrived to Turkmenbashy by ferry from Baku and left via Konye-Urgench to Uzbekistan. We got our 5 days transit visas in Berlin.

There is change of flight timetable taking place 2x per year world-wide, always end of October and end of March due to winter/summer time changes. It's pretty normal :-) Bigger airlines pre-populate new timetable in advance, but then it often happens flight schedules are changing a bit, while some a...

Quick summary (September 2016): 1. It's really NOT DIFFICULT to get to the crater. You can either walk, taking the only (and clearly visible) path on the right (driving from Ashgabat) before rail tracks, or rent a car. 2. sleeping is possible in one of the multiple chaichanas (tea-houses) along the ...

We got our transit visas via Berlin embassy with no issues :-) We've applied in August, after a short call to the embassy (Russian/German spoken only). We've sent our passports, visa applications (downloaded from their web page), letters (writing in our own words how much we want to visit Turkmenist...