• TIN@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    Couldn’t you now do that but go higher, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and then the central Asian -stans into Pakistan? Avoids both Iran and Afghanistan.

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      You could, except that Azerbaijan has kept their land borders closed for entry since covid. You can depart on land, and you can arrive or depart by air, but you cannot arrive by land.

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        1 month ago

        Interesting. Are you allowed to jump over the border and claim that as by air?!

        Is there a reason for the closure, do you know?

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          Stated reasons are safety and security. They are officially still in a health quarantine, but the leadership has expressed that the security situation has been better with no migrants, and so it continues. The opposition and neighbor states disagree.

          A spicy near-land entry by air is sure to lead to an even spicier exit procedure when the visa is checked!

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      The only ways to get around the Caspian involve Russia or Iran, unless you plan on going across it. Does a ferry count as hitchhiking?