Caravanistan

Applied at the London Turkmenistan embassy via post (photocopies of my passport was enough) and after a few phone calls to chase up my application from a friend (as I was on my travels), I received the confirmation letter via email. Woop!

I crossed the border - Turkmenistan (Gaudan) to Iran (Bajgiran) - in early July 2018 and I have to say it was pretty straight forward, quick and trouble free. For a price of 50 Manat, I used the driver (in his plush brand new car) from my Ashgabat hotel to get to the checkpoint where the bus to the ...

Couldn't agree more... only met genuine kindness and friendliness on my 5 day transit visit.

Same thing happened to me (early July) after the Uzbek gate, but I just used the whole repeated 'don't understand... I pay over there' whilst pointing at the actual border crossing building until the guard got bored. Didn't take long! As Callum said, all the staff in the actual passport control buil...

I have a totally different experience to this! I arrived at Samarkand station 30 mins before my train departure to Bukhara having purchased my ticket through the Kazakh tickets website (I didn't have a print out unfortunately and had the ticket PDF on my phone due to the hotel I was staying at not h...