Caravanistan

jinjiang inn takes foreigners: 180 yuan for a double room.
home inn at hualin market does not, even though booking.com claims it does.

Dear all, I've heard it's supposed to be possible to donate a car in Kyrgyzstan and that neither side needs to pay import tax when doing so. Is that true? If so, where can I find more informations about the process? Which office(s) do I need to interact with? Also, can I choose the nonprofit? (Ideal...

here some updates/experiences, maybe they are of use for somebody: - the route we were supposed to take was negotiated and written down on a paper we got when entering at Gaudan. it would have been possible to change the point of exiting when entering. we could also have chosen another route than th...

Obtained two Chinese visas in the beginning of December with one German and one Swiss passport. Thanks to the information provided here the process was mostly smooth. We got single entry, 43 days (which matches our itinerary exactly) and have three months to enter (our itinerary started 1,5 months f...

Danko, that's amazingly helpful information. Thank you so much!

makes sense! thanks

How recent is the last successful simcard registration for a foreigner you know of? I was successful at the end of october (26th or something like that) in ardabil. there's an irancell store close to basij square. it's a copy and computer shop, too, and should be around here: 38.229042, 48.272725 (...

thanks to asianrider's and waltereegho's description I also had a very smooth experience prolonging my visa in kerman. I don't really have anything to add. both the photographer and reza were competent, nice and efficient. it took us 1,5 hours in total, our visa was directly stamped after a 10 minut...

I have one more question actually :) will the route be given to me when entering the country, or can I tell them the route I want to take? (to make it more concrete: I will enter at the Bājgirān/Asgabat border and exit at the Kunja-Urgench border. Do I automatically have to take the road via Devreze...

Thanks a lot for the info, that's very helpful.
I don't know yet where exactly I would want to go off-route, I just find it hard to stick to one prescribed path when travelling which is why I wanted to check my options