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Hi Hieronymus,
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When Tanezrouft sent an invitation to the embassy in The Hague last january by fax, I got my visa within 2 days......
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Did you go in your own car or did you hire 4x4 in Algeria? Where did you exaclty go?
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Ohran to Tam and back with Chris
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I read it some time ago. Lucky you!
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Got our visas today!!
So a quick update on our visa situation for Algeria.
We applied on the 12th September here in Switzerland and now, as of today, we both have our tourist visas for Algeria!!
Algeria HERE WE COME!!!
We will enter from Taleb Labri border by motorcycle from Tunisia and leave from Ghazaouet by ferry to Spain. We are riding two-up (Riding2up) and we are using Tanzerouft as guides for the whole trip taking 9 days to cross Algeria.
Tanzerouft faxed a letter to the consulat/embassy for us and it was relatively quick given other reports. So I don't know what the fuss is all about, were we just lucky. I don't know. But the true test will be when we arrive at the border with our beast of a bike and the tow of us...
We will update our blog and probably post some pictures here on the HUBB as well.
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We applied on the 12th September here in Switzerland and now, as of today, we both have our tourist visas for Algeria!!
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That's good news.
Have fun and ride safe.
Tomek
P.S. Don't forget to share your best photos with us
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Getting back to the OP about a 10-day in the GEOc, an Algerian tour op just spammed me this itinerary - it may interest some people. I have not tracked it on map and dont know 90% of the places listed, but it look like it goes into the GE from Metlili at the east end (south of Ghardaia).
Looks like lots of nice old ksars in there, too.
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J1 - Taleb to Ghardaia (that would be a l o n g day...)
Jour 02 -: Metlili - Lemneikel - Abaza - Hassi Ouled Zeid
Jour 03 -: Hassi Thaldja - Dayet Soueid - Guern Laghouati
Jour 04 -: Hassi El Mer - Guern Bent Bouhamama -Selslet El Maleh - Diba
Jour 05 -: Mkamat - Oued dahab - Hassi Aicha
Jour 06 -: Fort Zaouiet Debagh - Semaouta - Hadj Guelman- Kssar Keddour
Jour 07 -: Visite de la ville de Timimoune et des Kssours et jardins. Nuitée Camping
Jour 08 - : Hassi Saka - Moul El Kendous - Mercheg Echems - Lehzeima - Hassi El Baroud - haouda ou Guedar - Hassi Sedra - El Atrous - Mabrouka
Jour 09 -: Hassi Guern Cheikh - Sidi Mhamed - Nebka - ElGolea repas après visite dl'église, musée, lac, vieux ksar. Nuitée Camping
Jour 10 -: départ tot pour les frontières arrivée à 13h.00 taleb laarbi pour la Tunisie
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And something about any escort by gendarmes for this tour?
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Hi Tomek,
if you did not obtained visa within a few weeks then you will probably not get one this time.
From my time as Tanezrouft representative I only remember 2 cases of visa refusals (on hundreds successful ones). And visa had still been granted to other European customers in 2011.
I expect that you will need to reapply with a new LOI to have any chance at all because the procedures changed. However, I can't help with it any more because my primary employment does not permit any more.
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Hi Yves,
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if you did not obtained visa within a few weeks then you will probably not get one this time.
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You might be right.
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From my time as Tanezrouft representative I only remember 2 cases of visa refusals (on hundreds successful ones). And visa had still been granted to other European customers in 2011.
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The thing is that we haven't got even a refusal yet. In Warsaw we were told that if we get a refusal we would be able to ask for refund of visas fee.
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I expect that you will need to reapply with a new LOI to have any chance at all because the procedures changed. However, I can't help with it any more because my primary employment does not permit any more.
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If only we knew the reason for not giving us visas we would definitely try our best to avoid such situations in future. Unfortunately we do not know the reason.
Could you please tell me if Tanezrouft can provide us with new LOI as we have already paid 10% of the fee. Can people from my group who might not able to go for next trip ask Tanezrouft for refund of these 10%?
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Tomek
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