In this travel day vlog, we left Azerbaijan to enter our next country on this full-time travel journey. We left our hostel in Ganja, Azerbaijan on a marshrutka minivan to Qazakh a small city close to the border for AZN 4 each. Then we took the local minibus to Red Bridge the border crossing checkpost between Azerbaijan and Georgia. This check-post is the most popular one for tourists to cross the border between the two countries. And many told us that it was closed.
When we reached the border around noon, we exchanged our remaining AZN Manats for GEL Lari (and later found out we'd been scammed). On the Azeri side, we had a 30 minute long interview before we could exit successfully - thankfully we had complied with all rules including the often overlooked registration within 15 days of arrival in the country. And then we walked through no man's land to reach the Georgian side!
We went through a 45 minute interview only because we have Indian passports - and it seems to happen to many non-western nationalities here. And we had to provide information/documents to prove that we were only visiting Georgia as tourists for less than 30 days. After all of our documents (as described in the video) were verified, we were stamped through. The officers on both sides were polite and courteous, but on the Georgian side, they were more friendly too!
And after we entered the country, we realised that we had been scammed on the Azeri side.
This is where we applied for our Azerbaijan evisa: evisa.gov.az/en/ and this for Georgia evisa: www.evisa.gov.ge/GeoVisa/ (facilitated by DU Digital Group which also manages visa application portals for Malaysia and Bangladesh)
Discourage illegal immigration and spread awareness about legal ways to move from one country to another. Illegal immigration not only means causing immense damage to your nation and fellow citizens, but also to your own lives - you don't want to waste the good years of your life being stuck somewhere because of bad agents and unrealistic dreams.
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11 июл 2024
