Depends where you get the carnet.
CAA quotes 250%+.
I have no idea what the '+' is. :)

The + is probably the CAA fees .. AAA here charged $aud400 ..

Interesting that they only have 250% for Iran .. where as here it is 470% .. are our motorcycles about twice the worth of a cunk one?! :))

Frank,
There are several others that are much different regarding CAA vs RAC.
India and Egypt might be other good examples - 98% and 55% respectively.
If you guys way down south know why the chicken crossed the road, please pass on that info. :)

I suspect the '+' is something else, as the CAA spells out their fees. Iran is the only country I asked about that had a '+' attached to it. So, in the end, I really don't know squat.... :)

Same boat here. We just get on with it. After finding the money.


AAA chargees are listed here Taking Your Car Overseas - Australian Automobile Association

India etc are 400%.. but OZ is only 30% for a bike .. 100% for a car?

After a while you stop trying to make sense of it all ...
"There is no reason for it. It is just our policy."

carnets in Azia
 

Thanks Dan for this question ,exactly what I would like to know
Can enybody help us out?
:eek3:
Pol

Changes
 

Hi Javier,

Your arguments for not NEEDING a carnet seem based on a recent travel, while those members writing above seem to have travelled some years ago. I am intending to drive from London to Ghana (possibly entering Guinea and Guinea-Bissau and Togo and Benin) and am reading the more and more about the diminishing necessity of having a Carnet. I fully agree that if it would be possible to go without Carnet there are not many reasons for chosing to go with one. Can I ask when you travelled and with what vehicle?

Many thanks Lotty

Lotty
We are travelling from UK to Ghana starting in October 2007.
Our route is:
Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Mali, Burkino Faso, Benin, Togo, Ghana
So we would be interested in swapping notes on paperwork prepation if we could.
We started planning the trip 2 years ago and the Landy has been ready to for some time. We are now starting to sort the paperwork out, the details of which seem to have changed a little since 2005.
TIA
Ian

To carnet or not to carnet... that is the question?
 

Sooooooooo>??????
Morocco, Mauri, Senegal, Mali, Burkina, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, DRC, Angola, Namibia, Botswana, SA, Mozam, Malawi, Tanz, Kenya,Uganda
Going end Oct 2007 for 4 months.
Carnet or no Carnet??? Any good tips?
Money, money, money... breaks my heart spending it...destroys my soul earning it!!

To Carnet or not to Carnet
 

That is the question.


Guys i travelled from India through Afghan Iran and eventually into Europe without a carnet. It did prove it can be done HOWEVER it takes a fair bit of nous and alot of savvy.

Africa is a different story as The Egyptians are preety full on about the whole Carnet thing right from the get go. As a thumb rule the more 'Western' the society the more constaints imposed upon the citizens. Legal this and paperwork that... I wish you well in your travels.


I have written a novel about my entire bike adventure...:scooter:...It is available from lulu.com. The title of the book is The Lonely Road.

Apologies in advance if plugging on this site is un acceptable.



metta

Now that is settled
 

Hey guys,

I have another question that someone here may know but has to do with insurance and not a Carnet.

I have a Carnet that I got in Oman on an Omani regested vehicle and have travelled from there to Djibouti through Yemen (Havn't been asked for the Carnet as yet)! I am now in Djibouti but I believe that I require insurance to travel further, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. Would anyone have any suggestion of what to do here in this situation. I haven't been asked for it either in Yemen or Djibouti but it has to catch up with me sooner or later.

Cheers
Ivan

Insurance In Africa
 

Hi ya Ivan,



You'll get all the way without Insurance BUT at one point or another it will come down to money at the border ( which of course neatly lines the boder guards pocket). Them knowing you have no insurance but wish to continue on with your jourrney gives them a great deal of leverage- and they know it!

These are your two options:
1) Act poor, vague and obliging in an attempt to limit how much you get fleeced or 2) get creative cut and paste an insurance logo and type yourself up a high falutin legal sounding blurb.
This will at the very lest soften the fleecing blow! Of course Horizon Limited doesn't affiliate themselves with such actions :nono:

Happy travels

metta g

Does anyone know what the story is with selling your bike n Nepal to a foreigner. I think its possible this that right?
CHeers