Good afternoon, we decided to visit our historical Homeland, our beloved Kazakhstan, we had this opportunity from Tashkent, the border is only 17 km away. The customs terminal is new, but I don't understand why we, the former Republics of the USSR, arrange such difficulties for the peoples who live in these territories, this is a bunch of passport checks, I counted about 10 times. In general, if you travel on foot, it happens more or less quickly, but if you travel by car, be prepared that you will lose the whole day at the border, and this happened with our colleague. Don't forget about the rules, no filming, talking on the phone, throwing bullheads, garbage, etc. This is not a small fine, but they will scare you more, which of course will spoil your mood and impressions of Central Asia, despite the fact that you will not see perfect cleanliness, urns, this is human traffic, dust, garbage, etc. Taxi is a separate topic, I don't know why, but Yandex couldn't find a car for us from the hotel towards the border with Kazakhstan, we tried to do it from four phones, but even. I'll tell you a trick, you call a taxi to an address in the city, and then just change it. It won't work that way on the way back, so only a local taxi, the prices will be 3 times higher, but this is not critical.
Yes, I passed through this customs between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. It would be better if there were no borders at all. It would be great. People would only be happy. But now, to cross this border, if there are a lot of people everywhere, you have to wait everywhere. Well, the customs officers are doing well, they work well, quickly, smoothly. Well, it would be good if there were no customs at all. free as it was in the USSR
I was returning from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan in the evening. I stayed in Kazakhstan for 2 days. For work. Kazakh customs officers are very rude. They speak Kazakh (which I don't understand). the passport is checked 10 times while passing through the customs post. At one of the passport check points, an employee in the Kazakhstan border guard uniform took my passport and asked about the purpose of my visit to Kazakhstan. To which I replied that I had a meeting with a business partner. He asked me to come with him. I followed him . He took me into a small room and asked me to take all the money out of my pockets (shmon). How I spent all the money I had (it's almost 1 million UZS and 700 US dollars. I was standing with my back to the door of a very small room. They opened the door, grabbed my jacket and closed the door, pinching my jacket, which made me immobile. While I was freeing myself (opened the door) The employee in the room took the US dollars and took advantage of the moment to take $ 200. and he quickly began demanding that I leave the premises and continue to follow the passage of the customs post. I left the room and visually showed that I was counting dollars and there were not enough of them. This employee rudely started demanding that I go towards the Uzbek customs. It 's a shame, of course, to just lose $200. but I don't know what would happen if I started arguing or demanding the presence of witnesses. (They could easily throw something illegal , etc. , etc.) That's why I'm writing here . maybe this employee will read about his achievements here. And it will be useful for you to know about the actions of the Kazakh customs officers. In general, the principle is this: they take you alone into the security room, asking you to put out all the money, (they take your money in their hands as if they want to count it) at this moment they distract your attention with something, quickly take several bills from your bundle of money. And they quickly demand that you leave the room and continue heading for the exit. All the best to everyone.
The speed of customs clearance depends on the presence of a stream of people. There are usually more on holidays. If you go through customs by car, passengers need to be dropped off, as well as all the contents of the car passed through the scanner. It is better to prepare in advance and put the change in bags. When entering Uzbekistan, you need to pay a tint fee of 225 thousand, if available.
Everything is fast and clear. A modern point. No one demands money (a citizen of the Russian Federation). After passing through, you can immediately change the currency and take a taxi or bus. Taxi drivers literally grab you by the arms and put you in the car. It's overkill and unnecessary.
There is a very long queue, you can stay for days and there is only one toilet, and there are no conditions and there are no border fees to ask if they took 100 thousand soums from me, the reason is that I traveled to other countries with a car and in Uzbekistan there are no laws that the car is registered to whom
Customs from Kazakhstan is something with something, there are no toilets, cafes, I don't understand what, sorry, there is a toilet hole in one of the houses for a couple of tenge.... On the Uzbek side, everything is cleaner, neater and decent...
They built a mini customs office, and hastily built additional seats at the "bar" counter))
What were they thinking with such a stream of people?
Everything was thought out from Uzbekistan, the room for a large number of people, and the staff.
Due to the temporary closure of the border through Chernyaevka, there are a lot of people. It is the Kazakh law enforcement officers who stamp wild passports, slam passports, throw their documents at women.
The road crossing from Uzbekistan to Kazakhstan is terrible, the asphalt is broken, puddles after rain. We were walking with suitcases and the wheels were broken into trash after passing. I have not seen any normal toilets near the customs. On the Kazakh side, they found a paid parking lot
The sides of Uzbekistan service is 5+ and the side of Kazakhstan is 0 why because they immediately ask for money to the customs and traffic cops all there are begging, I drove through Kazakhstan 2 times by car almost 25 traffic cops stopped demanding money, although I did not do any violations, but the customs immediately begins who opens the gate the rate of 200 rubles. And who can put a seal if you have 3 people in a car, you have to take 500 from each and give it to passport control. And who checks the car, you have to give him 1000 rubles because he did not remove the skin from the car. And the very last one who opens the gate and he also gets 200 rubles, they are all begging. I do not recommend driving a car. There are beggars everywhere and the people are good, civilians are not cops. I helped many times when there were Kazakhs on the road, but now I don't help because they have cops, traffic cops and customs begging for it. If anything, the people are the nicest
God forbid there. To get to such an assistant. Can I wait for days? And nothing good will happen. Only money will be needed there. It's not a small amount of money yet
In general, it's not a good place to go, you won't come back, it's hard to walk from there to here. In short, they have no gas there, nothing at all, it turns off all the time. In short, minus
There are a lot of trucks, since heavy trucks mainly pass through here, it is better to pass through Chernyaevka, there are fewer queues here, but you can stand longer. Kazakh border guards are handsome, they take money but quickly let it through, but the Uzbeks check it a little strictly and let it through for a long time. So you will have to stand at the entrance to Uzbekistan for a long time.
We constantly pass few queues, only Kazakh border guards, of course, like beggars, you owe money to every employee, not only here, but generally in all borders and along the way, too, beggars with beacons get bored.As it is, everything is fine.