Step 16: Drop off passports at the embassy and tell them that a letter of invitation will be faxed there soon. Get out of town for 2 days, knowing that your visa will be ready when you arrive.
Step 17: Come back to the city, go to get your visa and learn that your letter of invitation was never sent.
Step 18: Hurry to an internet cafe to see what the problem is...learn that you gave the wrong code to the person who was going to write a letter.
Step 19: Realize that you lost the code. Phone Western Union and learn that they cannot give you the code.
Step 20: Have another beer at 11am to calm your nerves.
Step 21: Have someone translate a note for you into russian explaining that you sent money last week and need the code again.
Step 22: Go to Western Union and get the code. Email the man.
Step 23: Get confirmation that your letter has been sent.
Step 24: (this is now day 8 of this project!) Go to the embassy and get the visa!
Step 25: Do a happy dance and ride your bike back to the hotel with no hands, singing loudly :)
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hi powergirls!
wow, you finally get your tajik visas...congrats! have you already found out if you need a permit for the eastern kirgiz region you want to cycle through? (or are you fed up with the red tape?)
We're back in Holland, and I'm sitting behind my desk again, doing all things but working (even shopping in the Tzum is better). I can hardly believe it was only last sunday that we had that nice good-exchange-morning in Bishkek with you. (After we'd carefully packed our bikes in your boxes at the airport, we had to unpack it again because the security-officers at the customs wanted us to put our bikes in parts through the small X-ray-scanner... and we had to pay 130 USD per bike instead of the 60 at our outward flight (ok, not as bad as your Urumqi-nightmare..)
Well, have lots of fun there, and good luck with the karakolka-naryn-road!
Heh, more 11am beers, i like your style! many leg hugs from me to you!
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