From Port Klang, Malaysia to Tanjung Balai, Indonesia - April, 2013

We missed the previous Saturday boat from Penang to Belawan with Mr. Lim, and he was not shure there would be one the week after so we took a chance to go to Port Klang near Kuala Lumpur.

We wasted a lot of time trying to deal with Izainil mentionned in these pages and he ended up just wanting more money. His services are not required and he became very impolite and scamy.

We showed up one day before (Monday) with the bikes and Shirley from JetStar said they needed to mesure the door of the ferry to make shure our bikes would pass through it. At first on Tuesday morning they said it would not fit so I asked if I could go mesure myself and it was shure possible to enter through that door with a little twist :)

We needed to have Carnets and Indo visas before we could hop on the boat.

The bikes handles were a bit too wide but it was possible to swing them through the door and park the bikes in the alley of the ferry, after everybody got in. So we had to wait until last minute to load them.

We loaded 1-F800 GS and 1-F650 GS in that small alley, boxes and luggages taken off.

Shirley wanted to get paid before in order to issue tikets: 1000 RM per bike plus 110 RM per person. If the bikes did not fit the door, no reimbursment.

We took the bikes through Malaysian customs and waited on the dock to load them at last with free help from the boat employees

The boat left 2 hours later than planned and the crossing took 4 hrs so we arrived around 5pm in Tanjung Balai. Steep landing in shaky staircase, the locals asked for 400 000 IRP to help take the bikes out. Customs there are not use to it but they were very friendly and stamped the Carnet after we cleared security check.

We left customs at around 7 pm riding and smiling.

No letter from Ikuatan Motor Indonesia was required, although we asked for it 1 week before and still did not have it prior to crossing. We received it by email the day we were on the boat, but nobody asked for it officialy. If you want to contact them don't bother writing they do not answer anyways, she's the person to talk to:

Patricia Adriance,
plan...@yahoo.com
+62 215731 102