From Kathmandu, Nepal to Bangkok, Thailand - December, 2004

Jeewan has done loads of bikes now and has a good rapport with the Nepal Customs guys. Very efficient... The whole process almost seemed a bit too easy!!

We shipped 2x BMW F650's including panniers. We had to strip fr wheel / forks and handle bars to make room for the panniers.

Costs were (with Thai Airways):
$1.37 Shipping per kg (Less than 500kg)
$1.07 Shipping per kg (More than 500kg)
$0.07 War Surcharge (insurance) Per kg
$20 Dangerous Goods Fee
$2 Air Waybill Fee
$8 Customs Fee (x2)
$55 Bike Crates (x2)
$22 Handling charge (Jeewan's fee's x2)
$239 Royal Nepal Airfare (x2)

We were able to lump the 2 bikes together on 1 air waybill, hence we got away with the $1.07 per kilo price. We were 556kg's all up.
Customs weren't too keen to do 1 air waybill, because they though we were trying to cheat them out of their second $8 customs fee. We explained (through Jeewan) that we were happy to pay 2 Customs fee's if we could have 1 Air waybill. They agreed that that would be OK.

Crated the bikes on site at the airport. Crate Builder stays on site to finish and modify the crate if necessary.

Need to drain fuel, disconnect battery and let air out of tyres.

At Bangkok, we had to pay 1300 baht per bike for handling etc before customs would release them.

It's a bit time consuming at the Thailand end, but no problems encountered and everyone very helpful.

A guy with a hammer took the crate apart and disposed of it for us.

There's a petrol station a few hundred metres down the road (wander down there while you're waiting) where you can borrow a fuel container to bring petrol back for the bike.

Take a pump to blow your tyres up...

Then... Go wild in Bangkok!!!!