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Carnet for Ethiopia - Soudan - Egypt

Hi, i'm traveling since July 2006 in africa with a little Honda Rebel 125 cc built in 1990. I've done 20 000 kms from France (excuse my english) to Kenya where i'm now (France, Spain, Moroco, Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Benin, Niger, Tchad, Central African Republic, DRCongo, Uganda, Kenya Tanzania, Kenya). I'm now planning to go back in France by the Nile, but i don't have the carnet (to expensive for a 400 euros second hand ephemer 125). My first problem was in Kenya but i success to chat to the customs who let me go without the carnet (no back Hand).

I've some question to ask :

- What about the carnet in Ethiopia, Soudan, and egypt (especially egypt). I eard that is very hard in egypt, but my motorbike is very little and look like a sahelian paesant's chinese motorbike and it's very easy to pass the border annonymous, even to tchat hours with the policemans, i use to do it. Also pass the motorbike without advise the autorithy... Once in the country it's good, and if you say when you exit that they let you go when you enter it's ok (i've done it for the Kenyans border when i first come here 2 months ago).

- I would have an idea of the price to shipping the motorbike from Nairobi to Cairo (by sea from Mombasa to Suez) or by air : 130 kilos and very little in a box (I would say not like a 1100 BMW), and may i need the carnet if i send my motorbike to Egypt ?

- I also want to have an idea about the price to send by my motorbike from nairobi to France. These 20 000 kilometers mostly on bad roads are been so rude for this city tarmac motorbike, "she" 's injured, and i just broke a choke (the suspension, i don't know how write "choke") between Isiolo and Marsabit in the bad "tole ondulee" road before the ethiopian border, so maybe i'll continue without my dear little Honda. But i can't sell her here, it's sentimentally impossible.

- Last question but not about motorbike, do you know if it's possible to take the Nile from Karthoum to the Lake Nasser by the water, i've some knowledge in sailshipping and i'm thinking to buy a verry little felucca or pirogue with sail or little engine in soudan (to a fisherman maybe, and if i have the motorbike put it inside). But i don't know if it is possible to cross the 6 cataracts with a litle woodboat.

I'm waiting for your answers before make a choice .

Thanks

Pierre
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