Carnet to IRAN
 

I read in may places that, even required, many travellers entered by car and motorbike IRAN without the Carnet, just signing a local temporary import insurance for a couple of hundred dollars.

Can someone confirm it and give me the "freshness" of this info?

Thanks!

Hello streetbird,

your information is correct : you can enter Iran without Carnet.
Further on for Pakistan it's totally IMpossible.
Indeed you need to pay a temporary import tax of some sort. Can't remember the price exactly - something between 100-200 U$ not more. We travelled up and down with Carnet (because we were heading further), but upon our return we met Italians accross the fence leaving Iran who had done it without. That was beginning of September 2002. Can't see why the procedure would've changed since, even with the Iraq-war. Seems no problem, the procedure is known by the custom officers, at least in Dogubayazit. Not sure about the southern border at Sero, which is a tiny one for cars and bikes only.

Have a good journey.
Trui

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Iris and Trui
2 belgian women, often travelling on motorbikes (now on DR650SE's)
2nd overland from home to Northern India and back, April-October 2002