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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.
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