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== Experiences ==
[[User:emileetunvoyages|emileetunvoyages]] and his sister had a bad experience there in december December 2022. The truck they were in was stuck in a 20-kilometers long lane before the border. They then decided to plant their tent next to a gas station (between Momkovo and Svilengrad) to spend the night. The next morning, they tried to walk across the border but got a 2.5 hour of interrogatory with the responsible of the border as well as bags inspection before they were accepted in Turkey. :The examination was very personnalpersonal. They took their phones and inspected them deeply accessing to social media, photos and other personnal personal data such as calls, contact list and messages. The police agents were very suspicious of everything doing deep research about contacts and call they had.
[[User:Guaka|Guaka]] had a terrible experience at the [[Kapitan Andreevo]] - Kapıkule [[border crossing]] in October 2008 when he was refused entry by a grumpy border guard who was probably looking for ''baksheesh''. It took a lot of convincing to be allowed back to the truck to get back his backpack. The next day there was no problem to get in. It seems personnel is much friendlier in 2010, some people even speaking English.
[[User:JanV|JanV]] with his friend walked over the border even though it is apparently illegal. After trying to hitchhike right before the border crossing and realizing how futile it is we went and asked the same guards that sent us away if there are any border crossings nearby you can cross on foot, we reiterated that no one will stop here because it's suspiscious to be hitchhiking right before a border and asked them nicely to just let us go to the European side (if you have a European passport you can tell them you just want to go home or something). Once over the first obstacle we got a stamp from the Turkish policeman on the side where the bus passengers are stamped. Before you do this you can ask bus drivers if they would be nice enough to let you ride on the bus just across the border since what follows is even more confusing. Once in no man's land many people may give you contrasting information (we even heard something about a personnel bus that is supposed to help us which never appeared, but if you aren't there in the middle of the night you can ask about it). The strategy that worked for us is annoying every border guard at the Bulgarian side. Since they can't tell you to leave they will have to think of a way to get you over, and be certain they have the power to let you through so you shouldn't feel bad about being annoying. Ask them to call their boss, constantly harass them while there are no cars and don't let them waste your time. After we realized they have the authority to let us through we just pestered them until they told a bus driver to get us over the border. We were stamped on the bus passenger part on the other side and continued walking.
When going into Bulgaria: Be aware that after you have walked over the border the hard part only begins as hours upon hours of hitchhiking on the highway gas station yielded 0 people who wanted to take us anywhere. If you are alone you might have more luck with Turkish truck drivers, but most people going here are full or scared you are an immigrant. We ended up walking over 15km to the road connecting Greece and Bulgaria, after Svilengrad, where we had more luck.
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