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Although not presented in the elaborate artistic style, I found that everyday bread had pretty much the same ubiquity, texture, mouthfeel, flavor, anywhere in "The Russias" -- Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia. Cheap and plentiful everywhere.
You went to Turkmenistan? What kind of visa did you have?
A Turkmenistanian one? There's only three types, aren't there. Tourist, business or immigrant. It was likely not the third.
A Turkmenistanian one? There's only three types, aren't there. Tourist, business or immigrant. It was likely not the third.
Unless things have changed, tourist visas are not issued except with a letter of invitation through a travel agency booking the tour, and even those are fraught with frustration. Transit visas are easier to get, but are limited to the length of time they estimate it will take you to get through. In recent years, North Korea has had more tourists arrivals than Turkmenistan .
So the reason I asked, was to elicit some details about how the visa was obtained, how difficult was it, which port of entry, and which type of visa it was. You did not mention the Transit Visa as one of the three types.
Im guessing that elnina visited the Turkmen SSR before 1990 with a USSR visa.
LOI's usually aren't that difficult to get. To be fair, the ones I've required haven't been for Turkmenistan. Remnants of Soviet bureaucracy are incredibly challenging to get through, as they're the last set of rules for rules sake. Most places take a step back and analyze why they do things now and then. Not old Soviet empires. If the rules were good enough for 1964 when everything is on paper, it's good enough for 2018 with all of the currently available technology, set to process just like paper.
Russia itself is one of the hardest. The ones you get stamped in at the border are Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan. I think it is fairly easy for Azerbaijan and Tajikistan, but visa still required in advance. The difficult ones are Belarus, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Even though visas are not required, crossing the border from Kazakhstan to Kyrgyzstan is as chaotic as running with the bulls in Pamplona. A true adventure not for the faint of heart.
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