{"id":347,"date":"2019-04-08T07:36:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T07:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/?p=347"},"modified":"2019-04-08T07:36:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T07:36:34","slug":"border-crossing-armenia-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/2019\/04\/08\/border-crossing-armenia-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Border crossing Armenia – Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Because we don\u00b4t have the\ncarnet de passage, <\/em>the only\nway out of Armenia is going back to Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duygu\nleft Armenia earlier, because she had to go to Turkey for a few days.\nSo I was alone decided I want to drive from Yerewan to Ninotsminda\ncrossing the border in Bavra (the border crossing on the left).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It\nis around 170km from the capital to this border crossing going\nthrough, of course mountains!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nroad leads up higher then 2000m and everything was still covered in\nsnow with the sun shining! It couldn\u00b4t be a better Auf\nWiedersehen <\/em>(German\nway to say good bye, meaning \u201csee you again\u201d) from Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arriving\nat the border, the Armenian border Police checked the car. Actually\nmore carefully, then coming in to the country. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nguys at the Passport check where a bit strange, wanted the hear from\nme how much I love their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hmm…anyway\nmake sure you have the custom papers from you car entering Armenia.\nThey will take it. Don\u00b4t know what they will do if you don\u00b4t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nwas free to go. But to where?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nfront of me was as big building, it looked like a huge garage but\nempty. On the side were some truck parked leaving a small gravel path\nbetween them and the hall. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nwas the only way which was not covered in snow. So I thought okay,\nthis should be the way. On the other side of the building I could see\nthe Georgian side of the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here,\nthey were a bit rough. Three soldiers came inside, insisting that I\nwould have some medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then\nthey start to asked things about Wallace, then again Medicine, then\nthey questioned me about my drone, then again medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nwas a strange moment, I hold Wallace in my hand who is terrified and\nthree big guys with full clothes are inside. It was so full that no\none could move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\nmade me surprised is, I used the land borders of Georgia a few times,\nwe got hold in by border police one time hiking to close to the\nTurkish border and we got stopped from the traffic police before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every\ntime they were very polite and respectful. It was different here. But\nnothing to worry, I got worse checking then this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nleaving this checkpoint I couldn\u00b4t believe my eyes! The road was so\nso so bad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Potholes\nwith some street in between, the potholes where filled with water so\nyou couldn\u00b4t see how deep they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some\nof them where 30-40cm deep, making some bubbles from the exhaust\npipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nactually only wanted to cross the border and then park somewhere for\nthe night, but it was impossible to leave to road. Everything was\ncovered in white!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On\nthe way a middle aged Lady was hitchhiking to Ninotsminda. First she\nwas talking in Georgian, then in Russian with me. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe car I just said, \u201cThe roads are very bad.\u201d, and she answered\nin English, after telling her I am from Germany, we continued our\nconversation in German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\nwas back in Georgia, the country where it is totally normal to speak\ntwo languages and many speak 3 or more languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

24km\nto Ninotsminda took me more then 1 hour. I found a nice spot next to\nKhanchali Lake and turned on the heater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Because we don\u00b4t have the carnet de passage, the only way out of Armenia is going back to Georgia. Duygu left Armenia earlier, because she had to go to Turkey for a few days. So I was alone decided I want to drive from Yerewan to Ninotsminda crossing the border in Bavra (the border crossing … „Border crossing Armenia – Georgia“ <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[88,8,44],"tags":[61,102,32,103,25,106,16,107,101,105,108,109,100],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paMWFm-5B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rockandrollcaravancafe.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}