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Carnet de Passage for Guinea and Sierra Leona

Do we really need Carnet for Guinea and SL , we will be traveling from Bamako to Freetown in Irish Land Rover
Has anyboby driven this route lately ?
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Get a Laissez-Passer for the car when you get the visas at the embassy. I got one for Sierra Leone because my Carnet didn't cover it and I hadn't gotten around to just having it stamped anyway.
At the Guinea border the customs guy was surprised to see that my Carnet covered Guinea, he'd expected me to have a Laissez-Passer.
At the SL border customs wanted to stamp the (non-valid) carnet, even though I had the Laissez-Passer, "those are for locals" he said. In the end he stamped the LP.

Bottom line: You can get though without a carnet pretty easily.
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Laissez-Passer Guinea / Sierra Leone for Irish 4x4

Hi we may need to get Laissez-Passer for Guinea and Sierra Leone when we are on the road for Irish 4x4
Is there an embassey in Bamako for Guinea and Sierra Leone ? .... Where ?
Has anyone obtained Laissez Passer from embassies in Bamako ?
We do not have the time to go as far as Conakry from Mali to get Laissez Passer for Sierra Leone

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You can definitely get a Laissez-Passer at the Guinean embassy in Bamako. Not too expensive either.

But there is no Sierra Leonian embassy in Bamako.

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Many thanks for your reply chug

We are planning to follow Niger river into Guinea and head for Siguiri and on to Faranah and on into S L to Falaba and on to Freetown
Can we make Bamako Freetown in 5/6 days ?.
What do you think , our time is short but we must make the best of it
We do not know what to do about papers for 4x4 for S L


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You can do Bamako-Freetown via Faranah in 5-6 days. Bamako to Siguri is good roads.
There's an excellent dirt road from the turn off at the Conakry-Siguri road south to the border, and a a bumpy dirt road from there Kabala. Kabala-Freetown is all tarred, AFAIK.
I took a little detour and went on lovely and very scenic dirt roads from Magburaka to Kabala.

All info as of May 2010.
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