Avoid Egypt going up - Saudi Arabia or shipping?

[Tom-Traveller]

Hi

we are trying it this way ...

The best option might be to go to the UAE via Iran, try the Saudi visa and if it does not work head to Salalah in Oman and ship in a MAERSK container to either Port Sudan

Still waiting for a quote for a 20' container (5,70m length), our car is about 4,60m ...

TuA

[thecanoeguy]

the title of the thread is about avoiding Egypt going north, i am interested and coming from the south

[thecanoeguy]

hello tom ,
is your trip going north or south and around what date

[bad babba]

dont go last time that place is like the muja hidin off the midel east ful whid fundmentalist cocos i whent to the etiopian embassy and beag them to leat mea back in to etiopia thank good the did just that

[gazza171]

Going south

i may be a little out of date....but it used to be

if you were going south from eygpt to sudan...to get the sudan visa you had to prove how you enterd eygpt...eg...if you were stamped in TABA then for get it...you just came from Israel...NO ENTRY FOR YOU....your eygpt stamp has to be from entry from jorden or some other place

if you cross into israel and plan to cross to jorden ...your jorden stamp will say which crossing it was...eg NO ENTRY for sudan

i may be a bit less worryed then others...eygpt looks not so bad...compared to syrya or iraq...just avoid the capital and alex as much as poss

i just did a trans via the west coast to cape......if you think things are bad in eygpt...take a look at cong/drc/nigeria/guieney/mauritania......you may think eygpt is not so bad after all

[Mousse83]

I've heard it's possible to take the ferry from Aqaba (Jordan) to Taba (Egypt). Then you're stamped in from Jordan...

My boyfriend has a second passport so he can get this one stamped for the car (customs) and I can get the Israeli douane stamps on loose papers.
I guess it 'd gonna be alright in Sudan then.....

[wearthefoxhat]

Originally Posted by gazza171

Going south

i may be a bit less worryed then others...eygpt looks not so bad...compared to syrya or iraq...just avoid the capital and alex as much as poss

i just did a trans via the west coast to cape......if you think things are bad in eygpt...take a look at cong/drc/nigeria/guieney/mauritania......you may think eygpt is not so bad after all

You're probably right about the West Coast, but the situation is deteriorating rapidly in Egypt (see today's news on BBC and Al Jazeera). Violence is currently widespread and it's very unlikely anyone will be going near Cairo to get Sudanese visas for a while. Unless you already have one, the chances of getting one in Egypt are currently very slim.

[SimonLore]

I'm not happy at all with all these developments in Egypt. For the first time we are thinking to change our travel route and go to port sudan or ship to south africa en doing the other way around.

Does somebody has information about shipping your car from somewhere in europe to port sudan?

Thanks!

SImon

[wearthefoxhat]

I've put a couple of contacts up on the thread 'avoid Egypt going down'. If anyone has any others please let us know.
Thanks

[achim-in-jordan]

@ Mousse83:

The ferry from Aqaba goes to Nuweiba, not to Taba! Nuweiba is also much better because Taba would indicate you came from Israel. There is just a little speedboat for foot passengers (no vehicles!) from Aqaba to the hotels in Taba Heights a little further south, but even an entry stamp there would be refused by Sudan, Saudi or other countries since they do not recognize the difference between the two border crossings.

Greetings,
Achim

[Morgansafari]

Hi, just wondered if anyone has very recent experience with the Sudan to Saudi, Jordan and then Isrel route?

I was hoping for my wife and I to get transit visas sorted while in Nairobi even though we are British citizens.

any one have any info on this?

Thanks.

[MasonMarxx]

Originally Posted by gazza171

i just did a trans via the west coast to cape......if you think things are bad in eygpt...take a look at cong/drc/nigeria/guieney/mauritania......you may think eygpt is not so bad after all

would you recommend those countries? I'm not too fussed about Egypt, already went through their in the last riots and it was fine. cheap hotels too all the way down to Aswan.

These countries I'm a bit more interested in as I haven't got any information on them currently and whether it would be okay to do solo.

[priffe]

Originally Posted by gazza171

i just did a trans via the west coast to cape......if you think things are bad in eygpt...take a look at cong/drc/nigeria/guieney/mauritania......you may think eygpt is not so bad after all

There are no problems with crossing Mauretania or Guinea.
Local problems in Nigeria and DRC, just stay away from the war zones.

[BackmyWheels]

Good day,

I am coming from the Cape Town and am looking to skip Egypt, cross from Port Sudan to Jeddah then up along to Jordan, into Israel and find a ferry to Turkey.

Does anyone have contact details for Sisa shipping, or details of a ferry that will take a car from Israel to Turkey?

Regards,

[bikerbsa]

There is no proplem shiping a car from egypt to turkey there is a ferry from damietta port to turkey it arrives wensday costs will be 500$ +1000 egyption pounds this is for shipping paper work is 1000 egyption pound bug you will have to take a flight there is no passengers on ferry flight ticket is 300$ alexandria air port in aswan there is no prop i know a goot contact there hop this helps

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