On the Kazakh side, the queue is artificially created. They combine the flow of trucks and passenger cars, although there is a separate post for passenger cars. Employees offer to solve this issue for money, and they can ask first at the entrance, and then also inside. Payment will give passage without queuing with trucks before leaving for netralka, where the flows are again combined into one, although Uzbekistan has different posts for cars and trucks, and it turns out on a passenger train when space is available and trucks will pass, despite the fact that the passenger post is free. On a non-washing machine, they pretend to disinfect the wheels, in fact, they just pour water on them. The transition itself for a passenger car is a maximum of an hour, but artificial queues and there were 7 hours, twice 3. Who is the first time on a passenger car KZ-UZ the order is as follows:
- go around the trucks immediately to the entrance gate
- then for passport and security check
- try again to go around the trucks on the right of the checkpoint to the non-truck
- on the netralka, two and a half lanes are clogged with trucks, if there is a loophole, negotiate with trucks, they pass without problems, they know that the posts are different, go register with the Uzbeks. Wash the wheels
- when launched, passengers will be forced to pass separately. The driver immediately needs to go through the disinfection, tinting, electronic declaration, inspection, passport
There is no information anywhere and no one will tell you, the unknown even specifically use your ignorance of the rules to go around in the queue, because we don't sit in the car, we walk, we ask, we negotiate. Uzbeks do not extort, but the inspection is tougher, you have to unload everything from the car, there is no visible X-ray.
In general, the border crossing slightly spoiled the impression of a vacation