{"id":136,"date":"2018-03-08T22:10:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T21:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/?p=136"},"modified":"2018-03-09T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:35:11","slug":"preparation-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Preparation &#8211; Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"collapseomatic rightarrow\" id=\"id69fb62f9a8dc8\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"Some not so good news today.\"    >Some not so good news today.<\/span><div id=\"target-id69fb62f9a8dc8\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \">\n<p>We applied for our Turkmenistan transit visa a couple of weeks ago, with the confirmation it would be ready in three weeks (which would be today, the 8th). When we called today, however, the embassy told us it&#8217;ll be ready on Monday the 12th at the earliest, possibly even Thursday the 15th. Bummer!<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, we&#8217;re not really bound to any dates. All our other visas leave plenty of room for shuffling country entries around.<\/p>\n<p>Truth be told, it could turn out even worse. It&#8217;s not even sure we&#8217;re getting our Turkmen visa (they can always be refused, apparently). In case of a refusal, we have a plan B though: travelling through Afghanistan!<\/p>\n<p>Or not.<\/p>\n<p>Real plan B: going back from Iran to Azerbaijan and taking a ferry accross the Caspian Sea to Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan is visa free, and gives us a quick route to our real destination, Uzbekistan. In case you&#8217;re not following anymore, no worries, I&#8217;ve provided a handy map below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-143\" src=\"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Afbeelding2-300x170.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Afbeelding2-300x170.png 300w, https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Afbeelding2-768x436.png 768w, https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Afbeelding2-1024x581.png 1024w, https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Afbeelding2.png 1505w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>(Plan C = Afghanistan = big no-no)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll let you know when we&#8217;ll actually leave!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomenwafa.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}