Caravanistan

Crossed into Abkhazia and back again in early October 2018. For various reasons, I only arrived at the border at 13:00 on the way in. I handed my passport over to the Georgian policeman sitting in the checkpoint office and he took a photo of it on his phone and told me to wait ("one hour maximum"). ...

I applied for my Abkhazian visa through the MFA website in early October 2018 and received it five working days later (applied on a Friday, received the following Friday). I only printed one copy of the visa/invitation letter out and the Russian border guards held onto this when I crossed, so I had ...