The day is successful: we don\u2019t know whether it was the ministry recommendation that worked or someone has called from Stockholm but our visas were already waiting for us. Yay! We can leave for Singapore. At 5PM, wet through and through, we are at the Johor Straight and the big bridge that joins Malaysia and Singapore. There are only border guards at Malaysian side, no single custom clerk, so we don\u2019t close our ATA carnet in hope that Singaporeans wouldn\u2019t notice. There is another border control point right before the bridge which we take for Singaporean one and congratulate each other. Too early, as we later found out. On the other side of the bridge there is a vast terminal, full of cameras and warnings of no pictures or filming. Rangers dressed in black with green hats and machine guns are walking around, and we realize that we\u2019ve been mistaken: now this is the border control point of Singapore. Latvian passports are okay, however, they ask for ATA carnet. The clerk is wondering how come it wasn\u2019t closed in Malaysia. We explain that there was no person to it. He accepts it, too, just saying that we should definitely close it when leaving Singapore. We also fill in the immigration card and sign up the notification about the death penalty for importing drugs. This is when all of a sudden one of the clerks asks for a weird document called \u201einternational circulation permit\u201d. No, we don\u2019t have it. The situation changes in a moment: there are deportation seals are there in our passports instead of entry permissions and two officers are ready to convoy us back to Malaysia. It\u2019s all done in a very decent way; however, there is no slightest chance for us to interrupt. In three hours we are back at the bridge, on our way back. Nice. What we decide to do is to take a nap and probably in the morning we will find a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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