Kyrgyzstan visa help
 

Hi,

I'm planning to pass through Kyrgyzstan overland to China.
But there is no Kyrgyz embassy in my country.
And I need a LOI to get Kyrgyzstan visa, which I'll apply through one of the online travel agent.

So, I plan to get my visa on the road, either in Moscow or in Almaty.

Has anyone got your visa in these embassy before? Which is easier/cheaper/quicker to get a visa? Which do you recommend?

Where are you from? Kyrgyzstan went visa free or VOI for lots of people last year..

Hong Kong.
Well, we can go to Russia and Kazakhstan visa-free, but strangely not Kyrgyzstan, although they are all in the same custom-union=.=

Edit:
And I'm going to be in Portugal for more than half a year (no Kyrgyzstan embassy in Portugal or Spain), and then start my overland journey Eastwards there, so getting a visa in Beijing or Urumqi is out of question I think.

Edit2:
Just found out there's Kyrgyzstan Embassy in Vienna, which is close enough to our proposed route and worth a detour there. So Vienna is the 3rd option for us.

As said above. Since July 2012 70 rich countries no longer need a visa for Kyrgyzstan. Check now . you're probably on the list.

good source:

Do you need Visa?

Well, I've checked it already before I opened this post. If I REALLY wouldn't need a visa, why would I plan to apply for one?!

I know a lot of you won't need a visa for Kyrgyzstan anymore, but if you have applied a visa in Moscow or Almaty or Vienna before 2012, can you please share your experience - what's the cost? How difficult to get a visa there?

EDIT: @reallybigtruck: the website you posted probably hasn't updated for a long time. Russia has been visa-free for quite a while, and Kazakhstan has been visa-free since Jul 2012. To determine if you need a visa or not, the best source is, always the government website - http://www.gov.hk/tc/residents/immig...freeaccess.htm