South America / On the road again
It was a long time since my last adventure , my first RTW seems now like a distant memory a dream or fantasy . But this is it , Bogota is my first destination ,my DL650 will be my ride of choice toward Terra Del Fuego . Photo and video to come . little thanks to my friends James and sanjoh for their help in preparing the bike , and many thanks to all that given me info and recommendation for this trip. Shipping was done by Gaston Miami , fellow rider and great help .
The airport info and pick up in Bogota ( a fellow rider Manuel from Chile gave me many info for this )
Here is the final instructions:
place 1: FEDEX building next to the DHL, there will be your AWB (guia area) take taxi from airport (3 mn)
Place 2: the first office to the left is your
place 3: DIAN building. this is the place where the colomnian officer
aprobe your papers
place 4: store where will be you bike
place 5: main door
process
1) go to place 2 to recover your origial AWB. you have to pay $100.000
pesos in the Popular Bank en de DIAN Building (place 3)
2) after pay, you have to ask to people in the AIR office (place 2) if
the bike was "inmobilizada" for the DIAN Officer. If it is yes, you have
to go to the second floor in the DIAN building (place 3) and ask for the
Cargo officer..with the Bike licence and your passport they release the
AWB. Probably the officer will go to check the VIN number. The officer are
not always in there desk...you have to wait until they appears
3) then go to the 3 floor to get the temporal importation permit. the
officer require original and photocopies of AWB, passport, bike licence
and SOAT (colombian vehicule insurance).
4) with the paper from step 3 (they will give you one of temporal
importation permit and 2 of check the bike), return to the place 2 (Third
windows to the left with Marta), She will give the paper and permit to
recover the bike. she will required photocopies of passport, AWB, bike
licence. The photocopy machine are in the first floor of DIAN Building
(place 3)
5) all the process in the DIAN building is free except the photocopies
6) To recover the Bike, go to the place 5 and pass the paper that Marta give you
7) The final time in the store for recover the bike is 17:30
You have to be sure that the plane departure (check in the centurion web
page) with your bike has been at least 24 hour until you go to the office
(place 2), because there is a lot of internal process before to release your AWB
that set....the people are very nice..except the DIAN officer
In my case it went well until I learned that my bike was immobilisado , so I had to wait 24 hours and fill enough paper to make you creasy and then go to a warehouse in the middle of nowhere
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