Hi All,

Before I go on with this post I want to apologies for posting something for a 4x4 vehicle and not a bike. We will be travelling with a 1985 Range Rover Classic...Moderators, please get out your board rubbers if I've gone a bridge-to-far...:-)

My wife and I are currently living and working in Tanzania (uk & German passports respectively). We have started planning an overland trip back to the uk covering the following countries:

Tanzania - Malawi - Zambia - Angola - DR Congo - Congo - Gabon - Cameroon - Nigeria - Benin - Togo - Ghana - Burkina Faso - Mali - Senegal - Mauritania - Western Sahara - Morocco - Spain - france- UK.

I have read a couple of conflicting reports regarding visas and Carnets...

Upon the completion of our trip we plan to import our vehicle to UK. Obviously getting a carnet would require us to return the vehicle to it's registered country at the end of the trip, in this case Tanzania, in order to get our "deposit" back. Can anyone shed some light on how I can get around this?

I know that you can get temporary import permits for some of these countries but how would this work for the countries that state a carnet is compulsory? Is there a way around this?

I have heard one or two people mention that they did almost the entire (similar trip) without a carnet, it this possible?

Regarding Visas...again there appears to be some conflicting info out there...I know that there are one or 2 countries that require a visa issued prior to arrival. Does this usually just apply to the "normal" visas?? or do some of these countries, issue transit visas at the boarder if we simpy turned up at the border crossing without one?

Thanks in advance for any help you might be able to offer!!

Asante from Tanzania

Danny & Alice