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I don't believe Indians are allowed to take vehicles across the border, but I could be wrong here.
Get an official paper in English in which your friend authorises you to drive his vehicle. Probably best to get this notarised, but I don't know what the Iranians or Turks would expect.
The question is: how much risk are you willing to take to have your bike confiscated at a border, knowing that you will never get it back?
To me, the easier and safer option would be to sell the bike and buy another in Nepal, from where you know you can ride it with a carnet to wherever you please.
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Originally Posted by beddhist
I don't believe Indians are allowed to take vehicles across the border, but I could be wrong here.
Get an official paper in English in which your friend authorises you to drive his vehicle. Probably best to get this notarised, but I don't know what the Iranians or Turks would expect.
The question is: how much risk are you willing to take to have your bike confiscated at a border, knowing that you will never get it back?
To me, the easier and safer option would be to sell the bike and buy another in Nepal, from where you know you can ride it with a carnet to wherever you please.
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Yeah, I agree Nepal would be a much easier and a more practical option...but i have the bike already and it sort of completes the trip i am on now. Going to nepal would end up being a totally new trip really and cant justify that as much!
Confiscation wise...just not going to think of that part. Just want to get as much info as possible on the paperwork side of the route, and from this will judge what our chances are...but willing to risk it, in the end it will still be a great adventure and a better send of to my bike than having to sell it in delhi!
Interesting about Indians not able to take bikes across, will have look into that now.
Thanks
Otherwise anyone else got any knowledge on this are, please post!
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Well, just done 3500 klms around Nepal and down through India, I thoroughly recommend the Siddarth Highway ( Pokhara,Tansen,Butwal), one of the best rides I've done. That road has everything, fantastic ! And then you hit U.P.in India, possibly some of the worst roads on the planet !!Currently holed up in Goa for a mth's R+R by the sea,then back for visas,carnet etc. I'm curious to hear your friends story, and what he intends to do with a bike that must be totally illegal to ride in UK ?
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