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This border checkpoint in the north of [[Edirne]] is the most-used spot for cross-border trade between the [[EU]] and [[Turkey]], [[Syria]] and [[Iran]] and tourists going to [[Turkey]] by car.  
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This border checkpoint in the north of [[Edirne]] is the most-used spot for cross-border trade between the [[European Union|EU]] and [[Turkey]], [[Syria]] and [[Iran]] and tourists going to [[Turkey]] by car.  
  
 
Expect a high rate of traffic there. If you arrive here with a truck, it should be no problem to walk over the border by foot! At the end of both sides you can try to hitch a truck towards [[Istanbul]] or [[Svilengrad]], it's very easy!
 
Expect a high rate of traffic there. If you arrive here with a truck, it should be no problem to walk over the border by foot! At the end of both sides you can try to hitch a truck towards [[Istanbul]] or [[Svilengrad]], it's very easy!

Revision as of 02:14, 8 October 2011

Kapitan Andreevo-Kapıkule border crossing
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Countries: Flag of Bulgaria Bulgaria | Flag of Turkey Turkey
Type: Road
Motorway: E 80

This border checkpoint in the north of Edirne is the most-used spot for cross-border trade between the EU and Turkey, Syria and Iran and tourists going to Turkey by car.

Expect a high rate of traffic there. If you arrive here with a truck, it should be no problem to walk over the border by foot! At the end of both sides you can try to hitch a truck towards Istanbul or Svilengrad, it's very easy!

When you cross the border by car expect to be checked 6 times, which costs you a lot of time especially in summer season. Waiting time between 2-8 hours can be seen as normal at this border checkpoint.

Money

There is an ATM on the Turkish side. It only gives out Turkish Lira (in Istanbul there are a couple of ATMs that give out EUR and USD). You can change money on both sides, but the Turkish side seems slightly more reliable, and if you want to change Turkish money into euro you should probably walk back to Halkbank at the Turkish entry side (500m from the huge building).

Where to sleep

If you cross the border at night you might find yourself stranded. Just past the Shell petrol station (on the Turkish side) there's, a what it seems to be, an abandoned motel. Beside the building on the left side there are some stairs going down. To the right there was a door and inside there is a couch and a mattress (March 2011).

Experiences

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.

Platschi traveled along this checkpoint four times, summer 2007 and 2008. Both times he had no problems with border guards or anything else.

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