East Africa Visas / Border crossings etc?
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Originally Posted by psaris
Hi Nico,
Did you cross to Ethiopia from Kenya at Fort Banya or Todenyang? i am planning to drive there next month and I am told that there is no Kenya immigration post at those places and it is impossible to get a Kenyan Exit stamp on your passport and that the Ethiopian authorities may refuse you entry to their country if you dont have it. Do you know anything about this?
thanks!
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Hi psaris,
We weren't given an exit stamp for kenya at Eldoret, the head officer said it wasn't necessary and it suited our purposes to believe him.
We took the east side of lake Turkana, crossing at fort banya.
In omorate, ethiopia nobody seemed interested in whether we had an exit stamp. The entry formalities were completed really quickly!
Others have been given stamps at Eldoret before, just FYI. As well as in Nairobi, which we were happy to leave out.
It is true that there are no immigration offices either at todenyang or fort banya, just police posts.
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