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It's going to be a long 300km...
Bolivian Amazon



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Leaving a vehicle behind in S America - specifically Brazil

Can do it for 8 months in Argentina and 12 months in Uruguay and supposedly until the end of your visitor visa in Peru, but I wondered about Brazil now that it is said that they don't issue TIPs any longer. If that is the case, does that mean you can leave your vehicle behind while you fly back home for a few months - or do they now endorse your passport or make a computer entry instead.
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When I went through they did not care about my bike. No entry linked to passport. I was just another person in the line getting my passport stamped.

So I think you can do what you propose and leave your bike there for a while.

Rod from Foz would be the person to ask definitively. He is "Iguassu Falls Quati" in this thread;
http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...-iguassu-73518
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Greetings Tony

I've just flown home and left my bike in Brazil for ? months. Both times I crossed into Brazil (Chuy and at Iguazu) the customs guys didn't want to know about the bike. So no paperwork at all. I don't know if this applies to cars but at Chuy people seemed to drive straight through. One family in front of me at immigration also tried to find the customs people for their car but the federal police outside waved them on.

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Sounds promising. May not even have to devise a way of changing the number plates while driving across the bridge between the border posts.

Obviously the danger is we go ahead and leave our vehicles there thinking it is OK and then come back after 6 months and find we are up for a huge fine because the vehicle and the driver didn't leave together, of the vehicle didn't leave within the validity of the driver's visa.

Crunch time won't come for 6 months for me - and I can go into Uruguay anyway - so hopefully someone will come back to reclaim their vehicle and give us an update.

As has been said before there is the written law, the interpreted law and the applied law and we poor suckers end up somewhere in the middle with all players making their own rules up as they go along..
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