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Originally Posted by Fastship
It will be a year or two before I make it that far but if I was going now I would accept a guide for say Erenhot-Urumqi then take my chances and head south alone but then I would be in a truck with my bike on the back.
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Thats the whole rub. We negotiated to have a guide from the point of entry, Korgos, to Urumqi and we then to be "let loose". However, the person we dealt with took the $1500 for the permits/docs and the guide to Urumqi and then was nowhere to be found. Another agent that she "worked" for told us to stump up another $3000 for the rest of our intended trip. 2 days later we checked out of the hotel at 06:00 and legged it. There was only one flaw in this plan... the agent had the import docs for the bikes and when we tried to exit at Tashkorgan we were refused because we did not have the bike import docs. It cost us another $1500 to get a guide to process the export at Kashgar and accompany us to Tash, from Kashgar to process the export of the bikes.
Why would you want to have your bike in a truck and miss riding the very best part of your trip through or around the Taklamakan??
Even if your bike is on a truck, you will have to have it processed out at Kashgar, before you get to Tashkorgan
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Originally Posted by Fastship
You did actually get the licenses for you and your bike for China though John?
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Yep. All the permits/licence/numberplate card/bike insurance/liability insurance was all sorted AOK, though it took 6 days at the border to get it sorted.
John
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