iran and into india

[goggstrotters]

hi travellers, we are in poland just know and expect to be in turkey mid october, we want information on visa situation for iran, pakistan and india. any information is so useful and appreciated.

[Dirk/D]

Hi Goggstrotters!
We'll be in Turkey around mid-October as well. Maybe we meet on the road ;-)

We're holding iranian tourist visa allowing to stay in the country for 30 days. To receive it you need to have a reference number of the Iranian Ministry of Interior. To get in contact with them you may visit a travel agency selling journeys to iran. Tell them about your intention and maybe they are able and willing to help. After receiving the reference number, issuing the visa is easy. In Frankfurt they charged us 59.-€ per person.

You may also ask for seven days lasting transit visa. In former times you were able to extend it inside the country. My last information (2 month ago) is that visa-extensions are not given any longer.

The iranian embassy in Istanbul is supposed to act helpful and with understanding.

Have a safe ride! See you on the road!

Dirk
www.motorradkarawane.de

[simmo]

I was given a Tourist visa for Iran in Almaty it took about 2.5 weeks, no invitation. Check the Turkmenistan border situation. At the moment it takes 1(7 days) week to get a transit visa for 3-5 days, but closes on the 10th October.

[goggstrotters]

just to let you know the story so far... we reckoned the reverse way was the safest so we picked up our indian visas first in the czech republic ( 1 week ), then when we got here in istanbul we applied for our pakistan visas,this meant getting a letter of recomendation from our embassy which cost us 35 pounds sterling each and the visas were about 45 pounds sterling ( 2 days ). now is the hard part, at the moment it seems if you are english or american it can take time ( about 4 weeks) or not at all. it helps to have the pakistan visa and if you can an invitation from someone in iran. we have waited nearly 2 weeks just for this and yesterday we put in our application. now we wait 7-10 days and see. i wýll let you know what happens

[mkruyt]

Dear Dirk

I just have an urgent question for you. I need too leave my bike in India but I do not know if the registration number is written in my passport. Have you allready passed that border and can you tell me?? If so I need to look for alternatives

Thx for a fast reply my mail mkruyt2003@yahoo.com

Moyo from Holland (in Pakistan now)

Originally posted by Dirk/D:
Hi Goggstrotters!
We'll be in Turkey around mid-October as well. Maybe we meet on the road ;-)

We're holding iranian tourist visa allowing to stay in the country for 30 days. To receive it you need to have a reference number of the Iranian Ministry of Interior. To get in contact with them you may visit a travel agency selling journeys to iran. Tell them about your intention and maybe they are able and willing to help. After receiving the reference number, issuing the visa is easy. In Frankfurt they charged us 59.-€ per person.

You may also ask for seven days lasting transit visa. In former times you were able to extend it inside the country. My last information (2 month ago) is that visa-extensions are not given any longer.

The iranian embassy in Istanbul is supposed to act helpful and with understanding.

Have a safe ride! See you on the road!

Dirk
www.motorradkarawane.de

[goggstrotters]

just to fill you all in....picked up the visa this morning, never thought it would come. let's hope there is time to get across turkey before the snow hits bad. güle güle.

[PaulJ]

Hi Goggstrotter

From your posts it seems it has taken around 20 days for you to get your Iranian visas in Turkey - and you already had to wait 2 weeks in Turkey for your Palastinian visa!! What have you been doing all this time?!
This topic is interesting to me because we will be doing that route in 2004 and I thought Iran was the one visa I would have to organise here in the UK, but it seems we will be able to get it in Turkey. (And get Pakistan and India visas en route as well).

Actually, it seems to me that we will not need to get any vises here in the UK and that we can get them all en route (see a rough first draft of our proposed route on my website).

Also of interest to me is the weather conditions in eastern turkey. From what I can gather it becomes impossible to get through to Iran once it gets to cold/snowy. We will be leaving UK end of July and I am hoping to get to Iran (via north Africa) by end of November. Please let me know what the conditions are like when you do your crossing as you are going to be doing it the same time as we will. Good luck!!

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