With regards to the CAA, let me say nothing negative- only that my experience with them (her) has been somewhat "curious." Lone Rider mentioned a macho spam filter- he's right! Last year I tried to reach the carnet woman and NONE of my emails went through- we're talking about dozens of attempts (yes, I was trying by phone as well). This went on for weeks. The woman at the CAA explained that their tech guys had just upgraded their filters. I finally received my carnet in South Africa. She included 9 pages as I originally planned to do a loop from Capetown to Jo-berg (via Zambia, etc). I contacted her from Kenya stating I was now heading north to Cairo and had only 1 page left. She said "no problem" and in a few days I had a new carnet in my hands with Sudan crossed off (I don't think a carnet is required there). Egypt is on the list- and the carnet has 25 (yes, TWENTY FIVE) pages in it! In any event, the point is, she didn't ask for any additional funds. I was surprised by this as we've all heard about the high cost of carnets for Egypt. We'll know soon enough if my low cost carnet will get me through. Be steady everyone. H.
Last edited by hook; 6 Apr 2007 at 18:54.
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