A carnet has not been needed in the Americas since, I believe, October 2004 when Uruguay became the last country to do away with the need. As to traveling through Africa on a foreign registered bike without having a carnet, paying a bond at the entry point of a country which is reclaimable (allegedly) on departure from that country at a border crossing different to the one by which you entered, this system in many parts of Africa is, to my mind, fraught with financial danger plus the possibility of having your bike confiscated. I am very well traveled over many years and whilst in my dotage I tend to avoid hard routes I have done two trips to Africa, the first riding from the UK to Cape Town and the second, from which I returned this June, which was a Durban - Durban with SZ, Nam, Bot, Moz, Zam, Zim, Barundi, Ruwanda, Uganda and Kenya including a boat ride up Lake Tanganyika in between arriving and departing. So my sixpenneth would be get a carnet and avoid Egypt, it's not any fun to ride through and better visited on a Thomas Cook package tour. Ride safe.
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Mike
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Mike is riding the twisty road in the sky
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