Driving to China (ish) - Day 18
May 18th 2015 Day 18 - Astana to Balkhash
This was going to be a long day. We knew we had to register our visas with the migration police at an OVIR office within 5 days of entering the country, and we were running out of time. Registration is a throwback to the old days under communism, and exists now seemingly only through bureaucratic inertia.
We had heard that it could take up to 2 days to complete t
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