Egyptian Carnet
Hi,
I have a South African registered land Rover which I acquired a carnet for - but not one for Egypt as setting up the 200% deposit was too hard/expensive (Didn't want to move that amount of money to S.A. from U.K. for such a long period)
My carnet looks like any other but on the back cover there is a section marked "Not valid in" and of course Egypt is stamped there along with America/Asia & Middle East/Oceania/Europe/Syria/Iran/Iraq.
I am of course planning on going to Egypt. My questions are these;
Is there any point in just removing the stamp from the back cover or will it be checked by other means?
I have read on several places on the web that Egypt now has another system in place to leave a deposit on the border and claim it back on leaving - has anyone actually done this? If so what is the payment/repayment mechanism? Many of the references to it seem to quote wikipedia which itself states, "citation needed"
I don't mind paying the quoted E2000 deposit as long as I get it back!
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