The crazy driver is Kamal - he has a taxi here in Aswan and his no is 0121393492. He's very useful if you're arriving in Aswan, as to get your vehicle cleared through customs involves driving from the port to Aswan town (15kms away) and back.

Edit: Actually, thinking about it, he's probably really useful anyway, coz it's quite an involved process!

For departing from Egypt (what you're looking for kuntushi) - check out this thread, it's amazingly detailed: http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/hub...fa-ferry-32630

Here's the full breakdown of arriving in Egypt!

1. Go to the ferry terminal to get the Carnet stamped. You have to pay £40E for Customs to issue a letter to the Ministry of Transport Licensing Office.
2. Take stencils of your chassis an engine numbers and place them on the form to the Ministry of Transport Licensing Office, hand in at Traffic Police MOT centre between the ferry terminal and Aswan. This costs £20E and takes a long time and must be done in the morning as they close at mid-day.
3. Get Vehicle insurance at the Ministry of Transport Licensing Office in Aswan. (£500E for a 2lt engine.) This costs the same for 1 day up to 3 months?
4. Go inside to pay £1E for a form to insert the Egyptian Licence plate number on.
5. Outside and round to the side to the License plate office where you pay £5E to be issued with the licence details.
6. Go back into the main hall and give them the plate details and pay for the paper work required to be issued with the plates.
7. Return to the License plate office around the side of the building to get your plates.
8. Go to the ferry terminal where you fit your new plates.
9. When exiting you have to pay overnight parking fees (£20E per night) and they will search your car. In fact they will probably want to put all of the bags through the x-ray machine which is 100m away. Tell them to go ahead, don't help. This will deter them in taking all bags, and they will probably just hand search a few.

Thanks for his number and thread too. I have another thread similar to that one in my list, but never saw that one before. Cheers

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Thanks for all this detailed and up to date info Steve; that's what we like here!

Ch

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Just an update on the ferry debarcle.

When we got to Wadi Halfa, there was no barge big enough to take our truck. We had to leave Sudan because our visas expired, so left our truck with Mazar, who assured us our home on wheels was in safe hands. 2 long and frustrating weeks later our truck finally arrived in Egypt!

Now for the shocker. Some overlanders who caught the passenger ferry a week after we did said they'd seen our truck being driven around Wadi Halfa! When our truck arrived the fuel tank was half as full as it was when we left it with Mazar! I wish I'd taken note of the mileage, but I didn't so don't know quite how far it was driven around, but it makes me mad that Mazar used my truck for personal use at all!

For this reason, I would suggest if you need a fixer in Wadi Halfa, only use Magdi. There are 2 companies operating in Wadi Halfa - Nubatia (operated by Magdi) and Mashan Sharti (operated by Mazar and Midhat). I'm sorry to say that in my experience Mazar cannot be trusted. I know many people have not any issues with him, but generally speaking most people have only had to leave their car with him overnight, as they catch the ferry on Wednesday and Mazar loads their car onto the barge on Thursday.

So Magdi's contact details are: nubatia51@yahoo.com and his phone no is +249 121730885 or +249 122262060

I hope this helps someone have a better experience than we did!
Steve

And part 2 of our ferry debarcle...

Dealing with customs etc for getting your vehicle into Egypt is a real pain, and in my opinion, well worth the $15 you pay a fixer to arrange everything for you.

From what I can ascertain there are 2 fixers in Aswan, Kamal and Mohamed. We used Kamal and had a terrible time, only because he could hardly speak a word of English! Mohamed's level of English is far far better, and for that reason I'd advise using him. We were unable to communicate with any of the officials at all, and had we had a fixer who could speak both English and Arabic, would have had a far easier time.

Mohamed Abouda's contact details: nilfeluka@hotmail.com and phone no: +20 125111968

Another thing. Kamal (obviously) tries to charge more for his services, but $15 is all your should pay. He says his charges are $15 for a bike, $20 for a car and $30 for a truck. I think this is ridiculous as the amount of work required is exactly the same, regardless of the size of the vehicle! Trying to explain this to him was fruitless, his English is insufficient and my Arabic is non-existent! Anyway, we only paid him $15.

Cheers
Steve

Hi, just to share info about the original question, we are getting on the ferry from Aswan to Wadi Halfa tomorrow, enshallah! Current costs according to Mr Saleh are as follows:
Deck class ticket per person: E£311
First class ticket per person: E£489
Vehicle up to five metres: E£2000
Vehicle over five metres: E£3000

The above prices did not appear negotiable, and believe me, we tried. Sorry, I didn't ask about the cost of a motorbike. If you want more information on the process so far going this way check out our blog at www.arewethereyet.me.uk.

Some Spanish trying to get to the World Cup and pressed for time did not get a place on the ferry (and Mr Saleh has arranged for a second vehicle barge which is also full), so are now investigating the road option by convoy. I don't like their chances, but who knows... maybe they will be lucky. In the chaos of trying to reserve our own place, we didn't get their contact details, but if we run into them again or hear more I'll post it here.

Hope this helps someone, and wish us luck!
Allison

Those prices are what we paid also. Going second class and sleeping on the deck was fine, fine for us anyway. Staying downstairs near the kitchen on the tables would be less fun, as it is hot, smelly, and very loud.

As for our story... our barge with our car came in a few days late. Mazar was hopeless, we ended up getting Magdi to sort everything out. The barge they put our car on was also to high for the docks at Wadi. So we just said we'd make our own ramp to get the car down, as the guys there seemed unwilling to move the car. It turned out it had been there since the day before too, but Mazar never told us. We were very very annoyed.

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Hi,

We are planning on taking the ferry from Aswan to Wadi halfa but I haven't been able to get in contact with the ferry company in Aswan.

I believe it is Mr. Saleh whom you are supposed to talk to but I haven't been able to get ahold of his phone number.

Does anyone know how to get a hold of this and how to get in contact with them.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,

Jonathan