Brazil reintroduces TIPs for travellers' vehicles
As I expected. Brasil safe haven is no longer.
Message from a friend who crossed into Brasil from Uruguay yesterday.
"My knowledge was, that Brasil doesn't register the car. This has CHANGED at least at the border of CHUY we have passed today. They said that since "this year" the law changed back to registration of cars. The Immigration asked for the car datas when they registered the personal datas in the computer. The Receita Ferderal (Customs) registered all details of the car in the computer and gave us a signed form sheet, which has to be presented, when leaving the country."
BUGGER!!!!!!!! But HAD to happen as the previous system just didn't make any sense at all.
Our plan was to cross from Cusco into Brasil in a couple of weeks and head to Brasilia where a friend had offered us a free parking spot in his back yard. Guess we will still go there but then head down to Uruguay where we can leave the truck for up to a year. Only an extra 3500km over what I was planning - but guess that since we rarely plan anything, it is easy to change. Was just about to book plane tickets from Brasilia so the timing of this bad news was perfect.
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