Kach Solo Travels in 2017: Airport and Immigration Experience in COMOROS!
Airports and Immigrations are always fun for me! This time, 3 officials couldn't print my tourist visa! Having a Philippines passport, I was able to get Visa on Arrival and I didn't expect that I have to pay for it because nothing is written online about it, basically, this is the first country I've been to that they prefer Euro to USD. So the fee was 30 Euro and if you don't have that then you have to pay the fixed rate of 50USD. Ha, 15$ more if only I have that Euro! I was lucky because one of the local staff was happy to give me local money in exchange for the 35$ but then a French diplomat who was behind me in the line was really nice enough to give me Euro to pay the local guy!
But I ended up waiting for more than an hour at the airport, they even shut down all the lights and everything! It ended up to be just me, the immigration officer, and a new American friend who is traveling solo around East Africa. The IO and I barely understood each other because I don't speak French! But the funny thing is that I think this is the only immigration where I can sit inside the office and take a selfie with the officer! Anyway, the people here are very nice and seemed to be not used to seeing tourists!
When I saw my visa, he only typed in my first name. hahaha! Quite a confusing story but it went well in the end! This is going to be a fun trip!
Now off to explore around this off-the-beaten and small African country
