This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car and ourselves into Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan in General Getting our car into Uzbekistan was easy. Getting the visa for ourselves was not difficult, but did require…
This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car and ourselves into Kyrgyzstan. Kygryzstan in General Getting our car into Kygryzstan was straight forward and only required us to declare the car to customs…
This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car and ourselves into Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan in General To quote our Lonely Planet guide book; “Visas and permits can be the single biggest headache associated with…
This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car and ourselves into Russia. Russia in General The Russia government website has a pretty good description of the process to temporarily import a vehicle into…
This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car and ourselves into Mongolia. Mongolia in General Basically there was no documentation needed for us to enter Mongolia. Firstly, as US citizens, we did not…
This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car and ourselves into China. China in General There apparently is no such thing as independent vehicle travel through China for western tourists like us. This…
This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car and ourselves into Laos. Laos In General There is basically nothing on the Laos customs website on the process to temporarily import a vehicle. But…
Well, we made it halfway! That is, completed 277 days of travel with 277 days left in the plan. We have driven 26,531 kms with around 26,000 kms to go. Visited 12 countries so far and no idea how many…
This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car and ourselves into Cambodia. Cambodia in General There is not a lot on the Cambodian customs website on the process to temporarily import a vehicle…
This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car and ourselves into Thailand. Thailand in General Thailand does not accept the Carnet de Passage for temporary import of vehicles. The official Thailand Customs website…
This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car and ourselves into Malaysia. Malaysia in General Our car arrived by container ship into Port Klang near KL. The import process was extremely easy and…
On the highway north of Ipoh we stopped for fuel and the strangest thing happened. The service station did not want to sell us fuel. Apparently there is a law in Malaysia that service stations can only sell RON95 fuel…
This post is about the government documentation we needed and obtained to bring our car into Australia. Australia in General Our car arrived by container ship into Port Botany, Sydney from Los Angeles. We were not involved in any of…
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 ‘Whatever do you want to stay in Klang for?’, the driver picking us up at the airport said, ‘Our capital KL is much nicer!’ Whatever for indeed. Well, Klang is the seaport 40-50km southwest of KL…
We are sorting out and organizing as much of the logistics and paperwork that we can do in advance: visas, carnet de passage for the car, getting our place ready to be rented out, and lots of assorted paper work.…
