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Elephant at Camp, Namibia



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Flying with a complete top end of an engine in your carryon may arouse some looks but by far noone cared. Unfortunately the one guy who gave a shit was working when I put my bag through the scanner at customs and I got dinged for a 500 dirham duty even though I tried to explain this was personal use.... too bad
I wonder, for future similar problems at customs, if a few photos of you (in your riding gear but no helmet so they can see you) and your broken bike in pieces in front of you may have convinced the customs guy that it really was for personal use.

"Sidi - you'll never guess what happened - I was down in ad Dakhla last week having fun when suddenly the bike blew up, so naturally I just flew home to get my old engine - check out my holiday pics!"

Personally my best ever Moroccan customs question was at Dar al Beida airport 20+ years ago - "what is in this bag - shoes?"
The scruffy dustcover over my large rucksack had made me look like an international shoe smuggler. It took a big of explaining that I only had the boots I was standing in and a pair of flipflops - the rest was a change of clothing and backpacking gear. He looked very dissapointed and let me go - they were obviously on high alert for shoe importers that day.
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