I am already planning to ride North, Central, and South America in few years and I am now building my harley for Round The World trip. I am saving up $ and I have plenty of 'credit' on my credit card for real serious emergency use only and have a stable month to month income to continue my traveling.

I am not a luxury traveler and will do a lot of camping, mostly stealth camping. Hostel when need to or have to. So clearly traveling frugally as possible is the plan.

At this point, trying to contemplate where I should go after South America? Originally, my plan is to find a cheap ship from Panama to Colombia and ride through west side down to Ushuaia before going up north to Brazil/Venezuela before shipping bike.

Looking at map, it seems logically that shipping from Brazil or Venezuela to Africa might be cheaper than elsewhere? Or is it cheaper to ship from S.America to Europe? Or S.America to Asia country or Australia? And what type of USD amount am I looking at? I might have a riding partner with me if combing cargo will minimize the cost of shipping?

Any helpful tip is appreciated. Oh yeah, if it is cheaper to ship from Chile or west side of S.America to Asia country then most likely I will ride through Brazil down to Ushuaia before making my way up on west side of S.America. Whatever it takes to change the plan so I can explore wisely and frugally.

I'm leaving for South America this October and have been thinking about the same thing. If I don't return to the US after the trip (depending on time and money), I'd like to go ride South East Asia. I've only gotten one quote so far and it was a lot.. ~$2000 USD just for the bike from Cartagena, Columbia to Singapore.

Hi Moto Mikey,

Thanks for sharing that information and considering the distance from Colombia to Singapore I think that price is reasonable considered when you compare to the cost of crossing the Gap? Have you tried checking on price from Santiago, Chile? I noticed that few sidecar owners use that location because it is cheaper?

So I will assume you plan to do a round trip around S.America and return to Colombia before shipping the bike? (of course assuming your budget permit)

And look at bright side, Asian country is supposedly to be cheap so if you have a steady income, you could travel slowly out there to recoup some of that $2k shipping cost?

Moto Mikey,

Please check this thread ASAP! I figured you might want to know this prior to shipping your bike to Singapore??

Shipping to Singapore is difficult and cost is 'prohibitive'.

$2k Colombia to Singapore sounds reasonable. (But beware the costs at the receiving end, particularly if sending by sea!)

By sea, send to Port Klang Malaysia, seems easier than Singapore. And by air, send to Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok. But note, you might need the carnet to send to Malaysia. For Thailand, you don´t.

SE Asia is generally quite cheap to travel compared to many other areas.

To keep the most amount of riding with minimal shipping costs, from SAmerica, ship to Durban, SA, ride North to Europe - when you get bored head East and get to Asia that way, then ship from South Korea back to North America - or sell the bike in Asia.....

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