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Originally Posted by dolickc
hmmm, this is not the news that I was wishing for. There is many police stops (and Military) - thank you - and not being able to fly home without the bike is another limitation. Mike, do you know if all the other countries in SA are similar?
Craig
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Well not legally!, but in Colombia they do not stamp anything about the bike in your passport like they do in several other latin american countries, so in reality your free to come and go as you please, as long as you bring out the bike before the permit expires or come back to extend the permit in time.
When that's said, (and I'm not recommending traveling with fake papers but merely passing on information), many people do (change dates on permits, fake titles, un-registered bikes, different owners and so on) and even last week I went with a traveler to the customs here to get an extension of an expired import permit and the only solution the boss of customs offered was that we should fake the papers/change the dates. He even offered to do it, just so there would be no problems if the bike got stopped by the police. This way the bike could be ridden to the border and checked into Ecuador no problems.
So like the customs officer explained: be happy we're not in a country like in Europe where there's only one way of doing things, here the road to fix a problem have several routes ;-)
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