Caravanistan

Somewhat a late update, but better later than never, right? :) Maybe it still helps someone - our experience with extension, April 2015 (I post here a part of my blog article, if you are interested about the rest of the story about Iran, you can read it here ). ____ UZBEKISTAN visa : Consulate (not ...

Somewhat a late update, but better later than never, right? :) Maybe it still helps someone - our experience with extension, April 2015 (I post here a part of my blog article, if you are interested about the rest of the story about Iran, you can read it here ). Consular section located on Aghdasiyeh...

April 2015 experience: (I post here a part of my blog article, if you are interested about the rest of the story about Iran, you can read it here ). Embassy located on the corner of Hedayat St/Masjed [GPS: 35.7779, 51.4515]. Hours: (hours in brackets are meant for receiving the documents) Sun 14:00-...

This report is a bit late - we did this in May 2015 But being an unpopular destination after Iran, I didn't find any other reports on this here :) Consular section ( the new one! ) in Niavaran, on 14th Street [GPS: 35.8183, 51.4758], Their webpage still lists the old address, don't be confused by th...

We applied for Turkmen transit visa at the end of April in Tehran, to also pick it up in Tehran, our visa request got refused, for reasons they did not disclose. We were thinking that it was maybe because we chose a route that is longer than the usual one cyclists take - we wanted to go Turkmenista...

Somewhat a late update, but better later than never, right? :) Maybe it still helps someone - our experience with extension, April 2015 (I post here a part of my blog article, if you are interested about the rest of the story about Iran, you can read it here ). You can extend your visa in every capi...

So, I read about the Kazakhstan border area permits in visa section and got the impression that those are needed for certain mountain areas and nature reserves. But, while cycling from Almaty to Khorgas border point, in city Chundzha (Шонжи) we got stopped by some military guy in a civil car, who to...

If someone may still find this info useful, I can confirm that the border is fully operational and (in my experience) easy to cross. Crossed the Nordooz border from ARM to IRN on March 22nd 2015 on bicycle. Bags were xrayed on Armenian side but not even chcked on the Iranian one. Some people in the ...

Super-useful info! Gonna be there after few weeks to get the same visas.

Does anyone know if the consulates accept euro? Or dollars only?

So, after not getting any answers from Tbilisi, we just got our Iran visas today in Yerevan. We got the reference number through a company called Persia Travels, in about two weeks time. The we went to the embassy to Yerevan on 4th March, handed in the papers, each of us paid 50Eur in Iranian bank a...