Caravanistan

Addendum: this page from our blog might be useful for getting the other Central Asian visas in London:

http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page ... 67942&v=Zk

Exactly. The visa, once issued, allows you to do whatever you please within the six months. (Are you cycling?) By the way, if you're under any kind of time pressure, get an appointment with the London visa centre ASAP - they can be booked out for quite a long time. You can always cancel the appointm...

Our tourist (L) visas were issued early April, 2014. They were valid for 6 months ('enter before' early October, 2014), 2 entries, duration of each stay 30 days. We applied - obviously - in early April. We actually entered China in late August (pretty much according to plan) from Kyrgyzstan, so comi...

I'm not sure anything has changed - our supporting documents were for a trip beginning a couple of months after the application date, with a side trip to Mongolia - we got 6 month visas no problem.

Double entry Chinese visas from London are valid for 6 months, not 3 (or were this time last year). I'm guessing that would be enough time for you to reach China?

Great stuff. You're missing an 'l' on your link, though: http://www.aroundtheworldin800days.com/ ... rders.html

Happy to help, either here or offline - email is (my first name) at stemhaus.com.

I cycled quite a bit of Central Asia last year. In the end, I'm extremely happy with the route: Bulgaria (Varna) - Georgia (Batumi) - Ferry Georgia -> Azerbaijan (Baku) - Bike Azerbaijan -> Kazakhstan (Aktau) - Cargo ship Kazakhstan -> Uzbekistan (Kungrad) - Train Uzbekistan -> Tajikistan -> Kyrgyzs...

By the way, since we needed quite a lot of time in Uzbekistan, and we weren't sure within a week or two when we'd arrive, we tried to apply for a 3-month visa in London, which the embassy web-site implied was available. However, at the embassy we were told that a 3-month visa wouldn't be possible, b...

I cycled across Uzbekistan this summer, though not Fergana (I continued to the Pamir Highway). A guy called James Finnerty was a couple of months ahead of me and did go via Fergana; he kept an interesting, quite detailed blog. The most relevant entry is probably this one: https://jamesftravel.wordpr...