From Cairns, Australia to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea - September, 2003

Below is the description for the border crossing Oz/PNG. I have made it a full story and you are welcome to cut down any text!

Yes, it's possible, Papua New Guinea is a lovely country, despite all the stories spread about "rascals" and anything else. We spent a month
travelling arround and had a absolutly fantastic time within an amazing culture (700 langages!), very hospitable, happy and polite people, the most
interesting expats. We did not have any problems at all (except the odd hand in your pocket...).And real road challenges I can asure you!

We flew the bike from Cairns to Port Moresby after cheching the shipping and flying prices. No shipping by boat from Cairns is possible and we decided to spend the extra money flying wich saved time as well.

Fyling is pretty straight forward:

- Make an appointment with customes to clear your Carnett / Temp import.

- Go to Australian airExpress and reserve your space on the flight (no storage charges apply).

- Deliver bike a day in advance at Cairns airport and fill in al the forms, hand over the bike (uncrated) and they will strap it in a container and off you go.

One snag though, you need to fill in a "dangerous good declaration", the people are not allowed to help you in anyway, not even tell you what's wrong with it, they just return it with a smile and walk off! The documents needs to be filled in exactly including all dots and lowercase and capitals on the right place (mine got flatly refused because the kg should have been KG and as they are not allowed to tell you whats wrong with it you keep on wondering where you go wrong). You have to PAY Aus$ 60.00 for this "service"
and the great thing is; they did not even check if I drained the tank ot battery, as long as the paperwork was right, crazy burocratie in OZ, hahahah! If you need any help just give me a shout.

In Port Moresby you go to Cargo and pickup the paperwork, then across the road to DHL where a very nice gentleman does all the paperwork for you, he
declares and even stands deposit for you, drives you to the taxation office, and all for FREE! Back to cargo where you hand over the paperwork, collect
the bike and off you go, one hour and your gone, what a difference with Oz!

Prices are:

- Weight of the bike Aus$ 1.25 per kilo
- Various documents Aus$ 136.50
- Dangerous Goods Declaration Aus 60.00

Total of Aus$ 423.25

Based on a Royal Enfield 180kg (they did not check the weight of the bike and we strapped some extra lugage on it, hint hint).

Hope this helps anybody going to this lovely country!