u/Nerdy_peach

Hello! I would like to ask how safe it is to cross the border from Moldova to Pridnestrovie and back for a solo female traveller. I have encountered in some Eastern European countries a practice of border patrols asking for money in order to return or enter the country under the threat of not giving me my passport back at the border control. I am very scared that this could happen again to me, is it something that happens? And what is the overall atmosphere at the border? Do they check your phone or question you?