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4 or 5 visas, all official looking and boring. Egypt visa is kind of cool looking with like a shiny 3d type image.
Tons of barely legible and boring stamps. Stamps? That's a think of the past anyways, no one stamps anymore, except for the Dutch. Literally about 20 Netherlands stamps from Schipoll, I go there that much, the butterboxes just love to stamp things.
A passport just isn't the souvenir of your travels as it once was. It's all automated and bar scanned now.
It's not an official stamp, but I have a Palmer Station, Antarctica stamp in my passport, I also have another unoffical stamp from Midway Atoll. While they'e not exactly "cool", and official, they're definitely different and not your usual stamps.
A passport just isn't the souvenir of your travels as it once was. It's all automated and bar scanned now.
Europe might be this way, but just travel to South America and Asia. I was just in SE Asia for a month and went to Hong Kong (8 days), Macau (1 day), Cambodia (4 days) and Thailand (15 days) and got 1 Visa (Cambodia) and 14 stamps (6 stamps from Hong Kong, 2 stamps from Macau, 2 stamps from Cambodia and 4 stamps from Thailand) in my passport.
Went through immigration 14 times (that was fun!), not including when I reentered the US at O'Hare.
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...including when I reentered the US at O'Hare.
THAT part is certainly notfun.
I will admit the thrill is now pretty light in most countries.
My kids (ages 5-12) got very 'wide eyed' at the guards, gates, razor wire...when we were traveling internationally.
Maybe crossing into Israel would be exciting and strict. One of my friends & wife were pretty beat up by a guard crossing through the eastern block, just 20 yrs ago... Things have changed (A LOT). My Passport now looks pretty 'sterile'
Some countries have a visa tax, and the officer issuing the visa puts in a sticky-stamp. like a postage stamp, on the visa page, to show that they fee has been paid. Some countries that did that in my passport were Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Madagascar.
Several countries have a full-page peel-off visa that sticks in, that is more attractive than just the rubber-stamp visa. I had them a long time ago from Brazil, Nepal and Hungary. I think more countries are doing it now, including the USA.
Visas: China (boring), India (boring), Vietnam (extra boring), Indonesia (Shiny and cool!)
Stamps: EU in at Londres (train) out at Madrid (plane), Swiss entry (but no exit haha), UK, Ireland, Hong Kong X 2, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Japan (plus a little tag left over from the sticker they put in there), Maldives, plus about a dozen in-and-out stamps for Taiwan and the USA.
I saw someone with a full page sticker type United States visa that actually had their photograph printed on it. Neato.
I have that one..... its my L2 visa to stay with my photo on it.
I have a couple of China visas stickers, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar and India visa. All take up the full page.
Japan does cute little stickers so you can get 4 visits on one page. I also have my residents visa for Singapore and Hong Kong in this passport. Loads of stamps from asian countries as we lived there for over 5 years and travelled a lot. I don't get any from Europe as I have a European Passport.... but thats good 'cos as it is I am on my 3rd passport in 7 years
I have no stamps in my passport. It is so depressing!
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