Author: Soler
Where to go abroad without a visa in 2020? States, territories, islands - have collected everything that is easily accessible to us, Russians, this year.
One of the most dramatic and exciting moments before a trip is applying for and waiting for a visa. The consular fee so generally can discourage the desire to fly somewhere.
But we don't have to lose heart: for citizens of the Russian Federation there is 131 countries and territorieswhere you can go without a visa (or get it in a simplified way)! What to expect in 2020?
Recall what happened in 2019:
- increasing visa-free stays in Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Costa Rica, Antigua and Barbuda, Botswana and Taiwan
- Suriname and Andorra refused visa formalities
- Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia (!), Guinea and Malawi allowed Russians to enter with an online visa
- India visa has dropped to $ 25
- Sierra Leone and Myanmar introduce visas on arrival
- visa-free travel to Guam and the Mariana Islands was canceled :(
Well, 2020 has already managed to distinguish itself by establishing an official visa-free travel with Qatar. And the abolition of a free visa to Sri Lanka (now again $ 40 for a visa at the airport).
Where can you go without a visa in 2020?
We will list all visa-free countries for Russians in 2020, and in order to facilitate the choice, we will also guide you on tour prices.
Abroad without a passport (according to a Russian passport)
List of visa-free countries for those with only an internal passport (i.e. regular dark red):
Abkhazia: 90 days. Better than mountains can only be the sea, and better than the sea - a mountain sea mix at inexpensive prices or simply - Abkhazia!
Prices - from 30,000 rubles for two per week: find tour >>
🇦🇲 Armenia: to enter through the airport of Yerevan or Gyumri, a visa is not required for 180 days. Ancient monasteries, lakes, mountains, mineral springs, delicious food, sweet wine and a convenient season, which is good both in March and November.
🇧🇾 Belarus: 30 days. Agritourism, ecovillages, city-museums, the opportunity to see bison, and as a gift to children for the New Year 2020 - the residence of Father Frost.
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan: 90 days. The city of the future - Astana - and natural relics. Similar to the Charyn Canyon, which is 12 million years old, can only be found in the United States. It is better not to find hot air in summer, choose the month of May.
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan: 90 days. Issyk-Kul - the largest and most beautiful lake in Central Asia - and the Tien Shan mountains are close at hand.
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Where can you fly without a visa? Countries with visa-free transit
Some not- visa-free countries for Russians in 2020 can be visited in transit, i.e. arriving from one country and departing to another (for example, Moscow → Singapore → Phuket).
With a long transfer at the airport of some countries, with an appropriate transit regime, you will be released into the city without the need to apply for a visa, but for a limited time.
Table: where is visa-free transit allowed?
| Aruba | up to 24 hours |
| Great Britain | up to 24 hours, provided that the flight is to / from the USA or Canada, and there is a visa (American or Canadian) - checked by us personally in September 🙂 |
| China | up to 72 hours: Guangzhou, Qingdao, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Tianjin, Xian, Xiamen, Guilin, Kunming, Harbin up to 144 hours: Shanghai, Beijing |
| Singapore | up to 96 hours - also verified by us personally 2 times |
You can also get to Europe without a Schengen visa, but you will not be allowed to leave the transit zone. The goal here is different - cheap flights (for example, a flight to the United States through Poland is several times cheaper than a direct flight).
Tanzania visa
Where to go abroad without a visa? Simplified visa regime
Simplified entry means the visa is posted at the border or can be done online. Several countries have both options.
In order to obtain a visa upon arrival, you will need: a valid passport, a return ticket, an accommodation reservation. Rarely, but it happens that on the spot they are asked to confirm their solvency. Visa upon arrival in the country (as well as electronic) will need to be paid. Each has its own price: on average, $ 20-50, and in some it is free.
Countries where the visa is placed at the border
- Bahrain (14 days, $ 15)
- Bangladesh (30 days, $ 51)
- East Timor (30 days, $ 30)
- Guinea-Bissau (30 days, € 64)
- Djibouti (30 days, $ 90)
- Egypt - find tour ->
(30 days, $ 25;
to Sharm El Sheikh - $ 0 for 14 days)
Prices:
from 80,000 rubles for two for a week - Zambia (30 days, $ 50)
- Zimbabwe (30 days, $ 30)
- Jordan - find tour ->
(30 days, $ 56;
if you have a Jordan Pass - $ 0)
(if you go on tour - visa $ 0)
Prices:
from 65,000 rubles for two for a week - Iran (30 days, $ 90)
- Cape Verde (30 days, € 25)
- Cambodia (30 days, $ 30)
- Kenya (90 days, $ 50)
- Lebanon (30 days, free)
- China (Hainan Island) - airline tickets->
and hotels->
(15 days, $ 65 if the trip is independent) - Comoros (45 days, € 30)
- Mauritania (30 days, $ 60)
- Madagascar (30 days, € 25)
- Marshall Islands (90 days, $ 20 check out)
- Mozambique (30 days, $ 50)
- Myanmar (30 days, $ 50)
- Nepal (90 days, $ 100; 15 days, $ 25)
- Palau (30 days, $ 50 check out)
- Rwanda (30 days, $ 30)
- Senegal (30 days, free)
- Sierra Leone (30 days, $ 80)
- Tanzania (90 days, $ 50)
- Tuvalu (30 days, free)
- Tonga (30 days, free)
- Togo (7 days, $ 17)
- Sri Lanka (30 days, $ 40)
- Eritrea (by invitation only, 30 days, $ 50)
- Ethiopia (30 days, $ 50)
E-Visa Entry (Online)
Well, in order not to stand for hours in queues at the border, choose countries where a simplified regime in the form of an online visa is in effect. In 2020, your goals on the map may be:
- Bahrain (14 days, $ 24)
- Benin (30 days, € 50)
- Gabon (90 days, $ 100)
- Guinea (90 days, $ 80)
- Egypt (30 days, $ 25) - flights -> and hotels ->
- India (30 days, $ 25)
Prices: from 60,000 rubles for two per week (Goa) - Cambodia (30 days, $ 36)
- Cyprus - find tour ->
(90 days, free)
Prices: from 55,000 rubles for two per week - Cote d'Ivoire (90 days, € 73)
- Malawi ($ 75)
- Oman (30 days, $ 52)
- Pakistan (90 days, $ 35)
- Papua New Guinea (30 days, $ 50)
- Saudi Arabia (90 days, $ 120)
- Singapore (30 days, $ 47) - flights -> and hotels ->
- Solomon Islands (90 days, $ 0)
- Uganda (90 days, $ 50)
It is possible to extend the time of stay in countries for the n-th amount of money (for exact information - on the websites of the embassies).
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List of Visa Free Countries in 2020
Updated: 6 January 2020
A complete list of countries and territories where you can go without a visa in 2020 (there are 84 in total), and the period during which you are allowed to stay on their territory:
Europe and CIS
- Azerbaijan (90 days) - flights -> and hotels ->
- Albania - flights -> and hotels ->
(in the period from April 1 to October 31, 2020 - 90 days) - Andorra (90 days) - however, it is impossible to get into the country bypassing the Schengen countries
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (30 days)
- Georgia (360 days) - flights -> and hotels ->
- North Macedonia (90 days, until March 15, 2020)
- Moldova (90 days)
- Serbia (30 days)
- Tajikistan (90 days)
- Ukraine (90 days)
- Uzbekistan (60 days)
- Montenegro - find tour ->
(30 days all year, but from April 27 to October 31, 2020 - 90 days)
Prices: from 55,000 rubles for two per week
Bali, Mount Batur
Asia
Asia is traditionally relied on in winter. Although there are exceptions where you can go to the sea without a visa from April to October: Indonesia, Malaysia, Israel and Turkey.
- Brunei (14 days)
- Vietnam (15 days) - find tour ->
Prices: from 75,000 rubles for two per week - Hong Kong (14 days) - flights -> and hotels ->
- Israel (90 days) - find tour ->
Prices: from 77,000 rubles for two per week - Indonesia (30 days) - flights -> and hotels ->
- Qatar (90 days)
- China, about. Hainan (15 days)
Only by voucher - Laos (30 days)
- Macau (30 days)
- Malaysia (30 days) - flights -> and hotels ->
- Mongolia (30 days)
- UAE (90 days) - find tour ->
Prices: from 65,000 rubles for two per week - Thailand (30 days) - find tour ->
Prices - from 60,000 rubles for two per week - Taiwan (21 days)
- Turkey (60 days) - find tour ->
Prices - from 35,000 rubles for two per week - Philippines (30 days) - flights -> and hotels ->
- South Korea (60 days)
America and West Indies
The islands of the West Indies, scattered in the Caribbean Sea, will be an excellent replacement for the already native Ty in January-February (the season lasts until May).
- Antigua and Barbuda (90 days)
- Argentina (90 days)
- Bahamas (90 days) - flights ->
and hotels -> - Barbados (28 days)
- Bolivia (90 days)
- Brazil (90 days) - air tickets ->
and hotels -> - Venezuela (90 days)
- Haiti (90 days)
- Guyana (90 days)
- Guatemala (90 days)
- Honduras (90 days)
- Grenada (90 days)
- Dominica (90 days)
- Dominican Republic (30 days) - find tour ->
Prices: from 110,000 rubles for two per week - Colombia (90 days)
- Costa Rica (90 days)
- Nicaragua (90 days)
- Cuba (90 days)
- Mexico (180 days, electronic authorization)
- Panama (90 days)
- Paraguay (90 days)
- Peru (90 days)
- El Salvador (90 days)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (90 days)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (90 days)
- Saint Lucia (42 days)
- Suriname (90 days)
- Turks and Caicos (90 days) -
flights -> and hotels -> - Trinidad and Tobago (90 days)
- Uruguay (90 days)
- Chile (90 days)
- Ecuador (90 days)
- Jamaica (90 days) - flights ->
and hotels ->
Africa
In the very heart of Africa (and below it), the favorable season is from August to March. North Africa, on the contrary, awaits guests from May to October, and it always has inexpensive visa-free tours to Tunisia in stock!
- Botswana (90 days)
- Gambia (56 days) - find tour ->
Prices: from 110,000 rubles for 2 for 10 nights - Mauritius (60 days) - flights -> and hotels ->
- Morocco (90 days)
- Namibia (90 days)
- Sao Tome and Principe (15 days)
- Swaziland / Eswatini (30 days)
- Seychelles (30 days) - flights -> and hotels ->
- Tunisia (90 days) - find tour ->
Prices: from 50,000 rubles for two per week - Maldives (90 days) - find tour ->
Prices: from 180,000 rubles for two per week - South Africa (90 days) - flights -> and hotels ->
Oceania (islands)
Where to go without a visa for super-exoticism? On small pieces of land in the ocean, not known by ear to everyone.
- Vanuatu (90 days)
- Micronesia (30 days)
- Nauru (14 days)
- Niue (30 days)
- Cook Islands (31 days)
- Samoa (60 days)
- Fiji (90 days) - flights -> and hotels ->
Our trip to Thailand (Koh Lan island, Pattaya)
Beach vacation at sea without a visa - 5 inexpensive countries
Having figured out where to go without a visa in 2020, we will also decide on budgetary directions. Inexpensive beach holidays abroad - as suspicious as it may sound - exists! Including, inexpensive visa-free Europe for Russians is in the public domain.
- Lovers of independent travel can go from Russia to Georgia even by car. In recent years, this country has become a welcome destination. In Georgia, you can experience almost all climatic zones: both hot sea and cool mountain.
- Batumi is a popular beach resort, but, in fact, the best places for a seaside holiday are in the villages nearby: Sarpi, Gonio, Kvariati, Tsikhisdziri and Chakvi. In the summer it is spacious here, and not like in vidos about the tourist apocalypse.
Tickets - from 10,000 rubles
Apartments - from 1000 rubles
- From 04/27/19 to 10/31/19, you can go to the sea without a visa to Montenegro (for 90 days). It hides a bunch of cool sights, mostly natural ones. A mixture of sea and pine air adds healing properties to rest. You can cleanse your lungs while lying on the party beaches of Budva, family beaches - Petrovac, romantic - Kotor or secluded - Ulcinj.
Tours - from 55,000 rubles
- A more exotic, but affordable option where to fly to sunbathe is Thailand. Relaxed, completely Russified, he wins with a variety of places a la "bounty advertising" (Krabi, parts of Phuket, Samui, Similana) and the number of days of legal stay (up to 30).
- Plus, it's a great plan for where to travel inexpensively without a visa for the New Year. Catching last minute deals at low prices is not a problem (the New Year's table and outfits can go for the same amount), and in winter there is the least chance of rain.
Tours - from 60,000 rubles
- Arabian night, magical east, palaces and sand (but up to 90 days) - this is about Tunisia! They go there not only for the sands of the Sahara, but also for the soft and snow-white, like flour, sand in the resorts of Djerba, Mahdia and Hammamet. Tunisian beaches are the most suitable of those where you can go to the sea with children and without a visa. Even ...
- Turkey! And even if the beaches are not perfect enough, the prices take their toll - there is simply no cheaper destination for the summer. More precisely, there may be, but it will be a meager combination of flight + hotel, but Turkey will also throw on the glorious all inclusive. Eat, drink and have fun all 60 days in a row (but usually run after the 10th day).
Tours - from 35,000 rubles
