Caravanistan

Happy to see that your "traditional" and higher freeload spirit brought you to the point you feel in the position to judge. Typical Western mindset, always believing we know better what others should think or behave, specially if they are from a third world country and not enlightened enough I guess...

From kungirot there are definitely minibusses going to moynaq, where there is an hostel (I think it's opened, not sure), yurts and also possible to camp on the bottom of the lake right next to the wrecked ships.

I have successfully hitchhiked the pamir, through the wakhan corridor, over 22 days during the last july. I'll write some general info and thoughts and then a "detailed" day by day report to give you an idea about what to expect. - HH the pamir is DEFINITELY possible, but it is not for beginners or ...

Thx for the report..!! may I ask why u didn't decide to go to zharkent, minibus through the border and then a train or something after to urumqi..?

Do you have any info about extending a double entrance visa..?! In particular the first one of the entrances, without the possibility to use the second one.. thx

Thx for your answers.. if it is better having few reservations won't be a problem.. i usually hitchhike but I'll see how's after the border and decide, probably going just to catch the train to urumqi.. About photos i Just have one camera and one backup sd card, with the exact same photos.. other th...

Any news..?!

I'm soon planning to cross from Kazakhstan to China and I would like to have some info about what might happen at the border.. first, do I need in advance an hotel reservation..?! in urumqi let's say..? second, do I need to have a precise and exact route..? or is it better..? third, is it ok to say ...

applied Sunday 30.6, actually paid Monday 01.07 at 10am and received yesterday 04.07.. not even four days..

today I was able to get through the payment process, probably it doesn't work during the weekends, but at the end I got an error page and a "try again" button to tap.. I did once, nothing different happened, then went back on the "manage application" page but the pay option was gone. received an ema...