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Gorgias
Joined: 27 Aug 2005
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I've been wondering about this too. If any of y'all get this straightened out, please feel free to post a detailed account, in particular about the visa and "special permission" part. I'd love to go to Russia too, but not 'til next year. Sometimes it's good to be naive and not realize the danger and everything works out fine. At anyrate, you might want to consider bringing a travel buddy. I'll go with you if you can wait a long time.
From looking into this, I think the "voucher" just has to be registered somehow at the local immigration office inside 3 days of arrival.
Again, if any one who's been up to Vlad would write a detailed account, that would be much appreciated by many.
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davai!
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
Location: Kuwait
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| Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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To go to Russia you need an
1)invite letter - easy
2)visa - medium
3)voucher - !@#$%!@$@ |
voucher comes with the invite letter, not hard at all. There are online places like gotorussia.com who can send it or hostels like godzillashostel.com (moscow) who can do it too...
For a one month tourist visa, you only need to book ONE NIGHT in a hotel/hostel. Then stay there-otherwise you are free to go anywhere you want in Russia. There are closed cities near the Barents Sea, for example, but anywhere along the train route is just fine. Just keep all your train tickets and wherever you stay in a hotel, get them to stamp it. That is your registration, no need to go to an immigration office or the police. If you're in any city less than 3 days, you are not technically required to register, but you want to keep all that stuff for the passport control upon departure.
There are really few if any travel restrictions left in Russia, and outside of Moscow, there aren't registration requirements. In Moscow, they do it to try to keep out migrant workers.
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| You are supposed to have all of your time accounted for, every night reserved, paid for and booked. There is a way to only reserve but not book/pay for but the only people that want to cooperate are the high end places. |
Exactly. The tour companies would have you believe it this way. But there are cheap ways to go to Russia. Dont believe their garbage!!
Vladivostok was cool, Not quite the SF they talk up, but an interesting city nonetheless.
Tiger (everyone)- looking to do the train West to East the 2nd half of June. Right after the Stones play Petersburg. What do you think? Let's get a group together! |
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