Caravanistan

The festival will be on 7th of July in Poperechnoe village. There should be busses from Ridder.

from 2 globetrotters: Border crossing from Russia to Kazakhstan ( Trentjakovo-Shemonaika) is a very relaxed border. They let 5 cars through at a time and process them before letting the next lot in. We had 12 cars in front and even so it took us less than an hour for both sides. Kazakhstan they did ...

Just found out about official days off this year: 30th December until 3rd of January.

2 Australians received transit visas through urgent service. We now also went to the Russian embassy in Ulaan baatar and managed to get another transit visa from there. Quite easy, just we had to pay express service as for non Europeans it takes 20 working days to issue a visa and we only had 30 day...

Report from 2 overlanders: Mongolia visa in Astana. Very easy. I'm not sure if the embassy moved but its not hard to find and t is on a very large road and the building is huge. We got there, nobody else, took us 5 minutes to fill in the form, we handed it is with the photo, paid and were told to co...

Please read and post reports on the the embassy of Mongolia in Astana below.

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Report from 2 overlanders: Transit visa to Russia in Astana was very easy. Just handed in the filled in form with a photo attached. We told him we had a car and he took a copy of the car papers. The embassy only opens Tuesday and Thursday ( 15:30-17:30) We applied on Thursday and it was ready on Tue...

Report from a Brazilian and UK traveller: The new consulate, which they opened in town , is really just to make some money, but some people will love it. You go there and it is easy as there are no people waiting outside, no pushing and showing , shouting or yelling. You pay between 30 and 180 Us fo...

Hi Jens, I made a research and the quote that I`ve got is 550$ for a day tour from Astana to Dolinka and back. I find it too expensive so as many things in Astana during Expo.. :oops: I also find it rather strange that there are no short excursions offered in Astana. btw this is the official website...

Hi Andre, I talked to Kamala about your issue. There was no mistake. You are charged a fair amount. On the day of your transaction AZN was 1.71 So 55.73 usd = 95.30 azn and few more cents went for another conversion from their bank, which happens all over Azerbaijan or in any Central Asian country. ...