Carnet de Passage for Guinea and Sierra Leona
 

Do we really need Carnet for Guinea and SL , we will be traveling from Bamako to Freetown in Irish Land Rover
Has anyboby driven this route lately ?:taz:

Get a Laissez-Passer for the car when you get the visas at the embassy. I got one for Sierra Leone because my Carnet didn't cover it and I hadn't gotten around to just having it stamped anyway.
At the Guinea border the customs guy was surprised to see that my Carnet covered Guinea, he'd expected me to have a Laissez-Passer.
At the SL border customs wanted to stamp the (non-valid) carnet, even though I had the Laissez-Passer, "those are for locals" he said. In the end he stamped the LP.

Bottom line: You can get though without a carnet pretty easily.

Laissez-Passer Guinea / Sierra Leone for Irish 4x4
 

Hi we may need to get Laissez-Passer for Guinea and Sierra Leone when we are on the road for Irish 4x4
Is there an embassey in Bamako for Guinea and Sierra Leone ? .... Where ?
Has anyone obtained Laissez Passer from embassies in Bamako ?
We do not have the time to go as far as Conakry from Mali to get Laissez Passer for Sierra Leone

Thanks
Maurice


:taz:

You can definitely get a Laissez-Passer at the Guinean embassy in Bamako. Not too expensive either.

But there is no Sierra Leonian embassy in Bamako.

Cheers, Julian

Julian

Many thanks for your reply beerchug

We are planning to follow Niger river into Guinea and head for Siguiri and on to Faranah and on into S L to Falaba and on to Freetown
Can we make Bamako Freetown in 5/6 days ?.
What do you think , our time is short but we must make the best of it
We do not know what to do about papers for 4x4 for S L


Maurice Joyce
Dublin

You can do Bamako-Freetown via Faranah in 5-6 days. Bamako to Siguri is good roads.
There's an excellent dirt road from the turn off at the Conakry-Siguri road south to the border, and a a bumpy dirt road from there Kabala. Kabala-Freetown is all tarred, AFAIK.
I took a little detour and went on lovely and very scenic dirt roads from Magburaka to Kabala.

All info as of May 2010.