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Boat crossing from South America to Central America with motorcycle?
Does anyone have experience with getting a motorcycle from South America to Central America via boat? Looking for info such as cost and time and any other hoops to jump through. Is it important what country the bike is from. I am an American male and I only speak English

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If you type "Darien Gap" into the search box at top right of this page you'll have enough information, hypothesizing, speculation, opinionating, pontificating, wildly-optimistic predictions, and actual trip reports to last several lifetimes. That includes current costs (north of US$1000 for most--but not all--options) and other such.

There are very few places in the world where the nationality of your bike matters in any way, and this is not one of them. If you try hard enough you might find situations in South America where, for example, it's difficult to get a Peruvian, Chilean, or Agentinian bike across a given border, but there's always a workaround.

You'll definitely find it handy to learn some basic Spanish (and Portuguese in Brazil), but your English will carry you through even if you stubbornly do not.

You're also going to find that most of the questions you want answered early in your planning process have been asked and answered previously, often in great detail. That search function--or Google using the prefix "site:horizonsunlimited" before your search terms--will serve you well.

Hope that's helpful.

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Stahlratte or Wildcard are ships that carries motorbikes over the Darian Gap. Search vi Google or Facebook and you will find...
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There are also some panga and banana boat options.
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Panga?
Just be careful on choosing any Panga's, not an easy crossing, do your due diligence,

I took the "Rat" down, not cheap, but safe and hassle free,
I flew my moto back, from Bogota, $1000, consider that cheap.
Depends on your time and money,
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Information quality
I think this is a general problem.
The problem is not to find information.
But to find useful information

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People that guess, think, hope, have heard rumors....how it was ling time ago...
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