From the
chapter: Travelling with your own vehicle:
...If you come by van to the Iranian border
you will be shown an actual small-size museum of smuggling. There are pictures,
objects or parts of vehicles in which someone tried to bring drugs (rarely
anything else) across the border. Their owners are still spending educational years
(even a few decades!) among Iranian prison rats getting "nan" and water
twice a day.
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| Iranian border |
You will have to park your vehicle beside a long wooden table and
spread on it everything from the car. The emptiede inside of the car will be thoroughly scanned
(with an electric bulb at night), and your baggage will get a precise examination
from one end of the table to another.
Much worse are the Greeks and the Turks:
five or six customs officers will rush into the van to ransack it completely.
Some objects are not examined at all, other are examined by all
officers one after another. A fellow traveller of mine had his film pulled out
of its cartridge, because the customs officer wanted to see what was on it.
When we all screamed at the officer, he started to stuff it back into the cartridge.
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& photo: Janin Klemenčič
