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11 Jun 2008
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Visiting Baikonur
Hi all
I am currently travelling around Kazakhstan in my own car (UK passport). I want to see the Baikonur Cosmodrome and museum, but have been told it's horrendously difficult and expensive to get permission. Does anyone have any experience of this? If so, is it a complete no-no, or is it possible? If possible, please advise me of the procedure.
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Baikonur Cosmodrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I remember wanting to visit there, but you will probably have to commit 1-2 weeks just getting there and back from Almaty...as the road that gets near that is awful....and then you have to deal with the Russians who have claimed that area as sovereign territory...
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We turned up at the gate to just give it a try. We where'nt allowed in, but the sight of a perfect functioning Russian city with traffic lights and all at the other side of the gate was 'interesting'.
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Thanks for info. Bloody irritating how all the articles I have read about visiting the place on the internet rave about how interesting it is, but neglect to point out that you can't actually get permission to visit unless you've got a spare 2000 USD.
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we still are hoping to get in there. Some people from my country who were going to Baikonur last year (though they didn't make it at the end because of some injury) said that they will search for contacts they have somewhere for me. They also said that it would cost ~100$/pers. Unfortunately I have not got the contacts yet. But I think that the possibility holds as you can buy almost anything in those countries (corruption).
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24 Jun 2008
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Sure enough, I tried to get in but couldn't. Typical f**ing Soviet mentality - build a museum, then forbid people from visiting it!
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