Caravanistan

I haven't much info about the Turkmenistan embassy in Tbilisi, so thought I would post this: We applied for a transit visa and picked up in Tbilisi. From what we gathered from people we talked to, normally the consular section runs very smoothly and is open Monday and Friday 10am-1pm for processing ...

Applied for Turkmenistan transit visa in Ankara Embassy to pick up in Tbilisi. As above, but took 3 weeks to get the email. (They told us it would take 10 days). We paid $10 in cash directly to the guy at the counter, but had to make an additional payment ($85 for british citizen and $55 for Czech c...

Is it possible that there will be problems getting a Turkmenistan transmit visa for the Turkmenbashi - Baku ferry if you only have the new Azerbaijan e-visa rather than the full visa in your passport? I guess no one knows at this early stage. We just got a Turkmenistan transit visa using our printe...

Picked up visa from Ankara after having applied in Istanbul. It was ready after 8 days for a Czech and a British citizen. $70 each for 15 day single entry. Needed to give them one more application form and photo. The guy was really angry with us for not having a second photocopy of the form to take ...

January 2017 We are a Czech citizen and a British citizen and applied for an Uzbekistan visa in Istanbul but to pick up in Ankara. The Embassy website wrongly implies that Czech citizens need an LOI, and we were told when we arrived that we did need one. However when we mentioned that the Ministry o...