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Originally Posted by frameworkSpecialist
This morning I started from Cizre a small town near the Kurdistan/Iraqi border. I decided to skip breakfast as I don't like to ride on a full stomach, this almost came back to bite me later.
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So I arrive at the Turkey/Kurdistan border and am queuing to get to the border. All sorts of people come up and talk with me, everyone smiling, some people tried to sell me papers that I don't need, some just wondered where I was from.
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At the exit they check my papers one last time and I am free to go. As I leave border it starts to rain heavily, but I don't even care. After 6+ hours I am finally in Kurdistan! I'm tired, nervous and happy.
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I should have read this 2 days ago :-). Yesterday I crossed the same border and my experience is mostly the same with a few minor differences.
- There were no lines so it went much quicker. Just took a bit over 2 hours on the Kurdistan site.
- I had to pay 100.000 dinar for he visa.
- I did not have to specify which border I leave, every border in Kurdistan is fine. (I hope that is correct as I want to leave into Iran)
And as I understand the 30 dollars you pay is not road tax but for entering (15 dollar) and leaving the country. They told me it is important to keep the receipt to show I pais. The manager at the customs office is a former Iraq refugee that have lived in the Netherlands 15 years ago and his Dutch was still excellent and he was happy to explain it to me. I was lucky I had dollars with me as other currencies are not excepted.
With all the smiling friendly people crossing this border felt pretty smooth.
I did put my experience in the border crossing system: https://new.horizonsunlimited.com/border-crossings
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