Departing on our trip
October 30, 2006
It was Nov. 1, and we were finally leaving to go on our trip to Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Our Uzbek visas took about three weeks to get since we had to have a travel agent request permission from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tashkent for the Uzbek embassy in Kabul to issue the tourist visas. Uzbeks don't like Afghans, and the embassy there does not routinely issue tourist visas. After that, with just one week to go before our trip, we had to get our Turkmen transit visas. That's the only way to travel independently in Turkmenistan. After checking with Ashgabad, they too issued us our transit visas, so we were set to go on our adventure!
