Caravanistan

Last week in uzb we had to pay all our stays in usd. It's a governemental dicision.

At the sayyoh hotel in tashkent we got yesterday 60 liter of diesel at 4.500 Sum. It cam from the black market and the hotel owner arranged it for us.

We enterd from turkemenistan into uzbekistan with our OWN car and did not pay anything at the border. We've got our insurance for 2 usd in Khiva.

Hi, we just changed 100 usd to 82.000 som at the bazar in samarkand.

We recently crossed from Turkmenistan to Uzbekistan with 40 liters extra. It was not on display, but we also didn't really hide it. Customs checked us extremely well and didn't even mention the extra diesel.

The boarder is open. We crossed on the 17th of may.

Dutch couple. It took some time but we got our transit visum for 5 days in Frankfurt and picked it up ourselves.

We applied for a 5 day Turkmen transit visa in Frankfurt and choose express service. Last friday I called the consulat and the guy received the application by Dutch mail. Altough the website says 3 workingdays, he told me it would take 10/15 days. So fingers crossed; we will leave on the 1st of April.