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The Travel Thread - Second Destination

i'm down in that London for the night. i have to go to the Libyan Embassy tomorrow to hand in my visa application.

believe it or not, the awkward fuckers need all this:

DOCUMENTS REQUIRED

1. Passport with Arabic translation and with at least 6 months validity

2. Completed application form
(This form will contain your vital information therefore please ensure
that you will input accurate data required in order for us to ensure that
your visa application will not be rejected.)

3. 4 passport sized photographs

4. Valid Travel Insurance
(You may please apply for a Travel Insurance from your Local Travel
Insurance provider and the same will be reimbursed to you.)

5. Hotel Reservation
(LIBYA OFFICE TO PROVIDE - kindly arrange to provide accommodation
letters individually)

6. Return copy of Itinerary
(LIBYA OFFICE TO PROVIDE - kindly arrange for a tentative return
ticket for all three personnel. Please note that travel dates will vary
from the date they receive their visa from the Embassy and return date
should be a month from their arrival in Tripoli. This is just a formality
that is required by the Embassy. You may change the date as per their
actual return to their respective home-towns after the completion of their
assignments.)

7. Letter from Employer confirming he works for *employer*

8. Personal bank statements for current month and previous 6 months
(This is necessary as you are all travelling on a business visa)

9. Company Commercial Registration
(LIBYA OFFICE TO PROVIDE - copy of the above to be sent to all
three personnel individually)

10. Invitation Letter from Host Company, attached with the company
registration.
(LIBYA OFFICE TO PROVIDE - copy of the above to be sent to all
three personnel individually)

11. LOI Details (Letter of Introduction)
(This part may please be printed separately as this information will be
informed to the Libyan Embassy in London)

12. £100 administration fee (cash)


The Libyan Embassy is only open for visa application on a Monday , Tuesday
& Wednesday between the hours of 10:00 am and 11:00 am only.

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what's the bets that they've come up with some other obscure requirement just as an excuse to fuck people off? :|
 
4 passport sized photographs!?!


I was well pissed off when they told us we have to pay a $50 airport tax when we leave the country, just as we touched down.
 
TheSpade said:
Flight to Sydney to book now, then travel insurance to sort out. 12+ month travel insurance is expensive! That worldnomad one people recommended are pricey.
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I just sorted some for £45 but perhaps it's not a great policy. All I really care about is medical cover being sorted and having an emergency number for shitstorms.

It was through a website called express travel.



Good luck with the embassy Felix, two housemates of mine had all kinds of official shit to follow to get visa's to visit a parent they have there.
 
eDDe9 said:
4 passport sized photographs!?!
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christ, the photos were the easiest things to get together. everything else relied on the company arranging.
whoremoaning said:
Lol jesus christ :D

You ready for the on-the-spot drug test? :D
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haha, that wouldn't surprise me. but it would be more likely to be a breathaliser, when you go into Libya your bags get x-rayed about three times in a cursory manner. you can tell they're only looking for bottles of whisky etc., they're too fucking lazy to search for drugs. true story.
 
jude101 said:
I just sorted some for £45 but perhaps it's not a great policy. All I really care about is medical cover being sorted and having an emergency number for shitstorms.

It was through a website called express travel.



Good luck with the embassy Felix, two housemates of mine had all kinds of official shit to follow to get visa's to visit a parent they have there.
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At £45 what does it cover? Got a link?
 
essentialtravel.co.uk is the site, I think.

Any of their packages can be upgraded to full 12 month for something like £10. Covers most things. I never had travel insurance before this week, so it's new territory

I'm debating pulling an all nighter as I need to be at heathrow at 6.30am and the tube's on strike and my normal bedtime is round 3am.

Must pack8o.
 
I'm not a great one for plans, but this is my basic intention:

I'm flying from Heathrow to Bangkok via Mumbai on Wednesday morning. I'm excited for the first time in months by this and have been running around like a new man sorting out vaccinations, visa's, gear and clothing for the past few days. Edit:(This is a bit of a lie as I have really been playing a lot of Battlefield and smoking green. But when I stopped for five minutes then I did all the running round mentioned earlier on)

My itinerary is fairly vague but I get to Bangkok on Thursday at 7am local time and my plan is to buy malaria tablets and get on the first bus for the Cambodian border and get a share taxi from there to Siam Reap where I shall treat myself to my first beer since the end of April as a nightcap and sleep off jet-lag.

After that it's on to Phnom Penh followed by Vietnam and the Mekong Delta for a week or so and then crossing into Laos for the last week or ten days before I make my way back to Bangkok and back to London.
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That's a fairly hectic journey straight off the bat, flying to Bangkok alone is going to be a long flight, but to then jump straight on a bus to Cambodia sounds a bit mad. Why not chill for a few days in BKK first?

How long you away for?
 
Time waits for no man, apparently.

I don't fancy Thailand right now and I like the travelling as much as the arriving.

I'm away until next month.
 
I hate the travelling part of travelling. You enjoy long flights and drawn out bus journeys? Good on you, my worst part.
 
Looking at that travel insurance you linked me to seems they can do a 12 month backpacker insurance for £149.99.

It looks like it covers a lot of things but I've no idea really what I should be looking for.
 
I don't like the flights, no.

But the rest is all cool, as long as nobody rushes me.

Why pay £149 though? Just get one that covers medical in many situations and gives you a few grand for injuries and hospital/robbings for 12 months for under £50 and if you need to avail of it then just get creative about how you came to be robbed/injured/screwed to the insurance company.
 
For a year long backpacker travel the cheapest with EssentialTravel is £119.99. There's no chance of getting 12 month travel insurance for £50 or less.
 
I got 12 month cover for under £50 on that site.

I specified my trip's date and what I needed and it quoted me £35 with upgrade to 12 month cover on the same policy for £15.

It's their basic deal.


I don't know the difference between that and "backpacker" insurance. All I know is I won't be left to die or rot somewhere if I have this policy and that's good enough for me;)
 
I didn't specify that I wanted X, Y and Z just put the dates in, picked backpacker option (which probably means you're covered from theft in hostels etc where as with other travel insurance you are usually not) and that was the price I was quoted.

Just checked again and using the normal 'single trip' insurance you cannot get cover for 12 months, it tells you that you have to pick backpacker. :\
 
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