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I should add that I have an Irish passport and my motorcycle is registered in Ireland.

If it's impossible to get into a country then I won't try but it seems a lot of people say different things about these country's, some entering without any issues and some not.
I believe Thailand, Laos & Vietnam will not be impossible and will not be expensive.
But I know very little about Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Do you need a guide for Myanmar ?


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I should add that I have an Irish passport and my motorcycle is registered in Ireland.

If it's impossible to get into a country then I won't try but it seems a lot of people say different things about these country's, some entering without any issues and some not.
I believe Thailand, Laos & Vietnam will not be impossible and will not be expensive.
But I know very little about Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Do you need a guide for Myanmar ?

Ireland to South East Asia two up on a 89 Africa Twin 650.

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Yes you will need guides and permits to cross Myanmar. Please se the "South-Asia" section of the forum. There are heaps of threads about it. See also the facebook-group I linked to in my last post.

And as I wrote my last post in this thread Myanmar seems to have opend up again. Things are happening very quickly nowadays...
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Flew my bike into thialand got an temporary import papers took all day at the airport got a fixer to help with coustoms reelection just keep smiling boarder into loas hand a similar thing only problem was when I left they didn't cancel in so after a loop of loas left at ventine one I got to thia coustoms was taken in the office and they were passing my paperwork around shouting kept cool collected all up and went to the guy with the most gold brade and said calmly I paid money not my prob he pick up my paperwork and stormed back to couscous post threw may paper at the girl there and stormed of phew I was back in. Used carnet for Cambodia no prob couldn't leagaly get into Vietnam when back into this land they insisted on using carnet which caused trouble when I left try to keep to temporarily import and make shaw they cancel on leaving Dave.
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Be aware, that Thailand seems to have changed their temp import rules just lately.. it used to be a breeze, but perhaps not so any more. I do not have the details of those changes, though.

And I think Bangladesh might be very complicated to temp import your MC, even on a Carnet. The last I heard (from the Swedish AA about a year ago), was a 800% of the value bond required... that said the whole Carnet system has undergone major changes just lately, too.
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