In 2014 the Turkmenistan Embassy in London gave me a visa authorisation letter. It is not an LOI, perhaps you are getting confused.
This letter allows you to get a visa at the border. I did not have to pay anything to the embassy in London, only send them scans of my passport, and my Kazakhstan and Iranian visas, and they sent the letter by email while I was on the road.
Then, at the Kazakhstan - Turkmenistan border, a visa was put in my passport. It cost $35.
Very simple and efficient.
__________________
EurasiaOverland a memoir of one quarter of a million kilometres by road through all of the Former USSR, Western and Southern Asia.
|