Dear All
As with anywhere, if you or your bike overstay their welcome, it is your problem. In Latin America it can be easy to solve the problem... Either by pulling a stunt with paperwork (see other posts on this site) or just not saying 'goodbye' when you leave:
I have myself left without my bike officially leaving, or entered where I could have avoided declaring my bike (ie. you can avoid customs on departure or at the fronitier there is only immigration, or not even that) at the following:
*el salvador to honduras coming from san francisco de gotera
*ecuador to peru south of vilcabamba
*bolivia from/to chile at laguna verde (the route from uyuni to san pedro de atacama)
*peru to bolivia and vice versa around north of lago titicaca.
*chile-argentina at one or 2 seriously wayout frontier points
each of these involves gravel, sand, dirt, mud, rivers etc, depending on the season. they are not easy on a bike, so if you are used to only riding pavement, these options are not possible.
cheers
ChrisB
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