Travel Blog & Insights

Bolivia sorts the world into three groups. Indian passports fall in the third — the one where a migration authority in La Paz has to approve you before a consulate can even issue the visa.

The application is genuinely easy — US$80.90, two documents, fully online. The hard part is that Brazil’s own consulates publish different answers on validity and stay limits, and the internet has invented a bank-balance requirement that does not exist.

Brazil created an electronic visa specifically for Indian nationals — then limited it to business travel. If you are going for Carnival, you are filing paperwork in person, and paying a fee an agent is forbidden to pay for you.

A quarter of Suriname is of Indian descent and Bhojpuri is still spoken there. Since May 2023 an Indian passport is also one of 21 that lost visa-free access — and gets the slow, closely scrutinised route instead.

Armenia’s visa costs less than a pizza. Whether you can get it depends less on your Indian passport than on whether you already hold a Gulf residence permit or a Western visa — and right now that group may not need one at all.

Governments advise against all travel to Ukraine, and the airspace has been shut since 2022. If you have a reason to go anyway, here is what is actually true — starting with the fact that you cannot fly there.

Djibouti has one of the cheapest e-visas in Africa. It also asks every applicant for an invitation letter — which is awkward if you are simply a tourist with a hotel booking.

Mauritania abolished visas on arrival in January 2025, so the e-visa is now the only way in. But you do not pay for it online — you pay in exact cash at immigration, and no change is given.

The Jordan Pass waives the 40 JOD visa fee and covers Petra, which costs nearly as much on its own. A lookalike website is telling Indian travellers they are not eligible. They are.

Ethiopia’s e-visa is easy. The thing that catches Indian travellers is India’s own rule on the way home — and it applies to people who only changed planes in Addis Ababa.

Tanzania’s immigration portal says an ordinary visa costs $50. Its own High Commission in New Delhi says Indian citizens pay $100. Here is which one to use — plus the $44 nobody budgets for.

Madagascar’s short-stay visa was free, then ten euros, and since 16 February 2026 it is thirty. Nearly every guide still quotes the old number — along with the wrong web address.