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Hello from France!
Hi Everyone,
I'm Victor, 33 yo from France and actually planning my life Trip for this year.
A 1 year RTW trip from France to South East Asia (through Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, India, Nepal,... ) , than from Buenos aeres to Ushuaia and back up to Canada following the west american cost!
So obviously i found this website and already start to collect informations!
My main issue to finalise my budget and trip is the cost to ship the motorcycle , I have a lot of trouble to get a price idea (from SE Asia to Buenos Aeres and from Canada back to France) . I plan 5000€ but I'm not sure it will be enough...
I also have difficulties to check if we can cross Pakistan or not.
I also still didnot choose the bike, actually thinking of a new Africa Twin or a Yamaha 660.
thanks in advance for your help and excuse my english mistake!
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Hi Victor and welcome,
For Canada to France check out the Air Canada motorcycle flying deals to Europe, I used it last year and it was relatively cheap and easy. If you read other people's recent ride reports you will get an idea of what routes are possible but I believe Pakistan is.
I suggest you buy the bike that you will enjoy travelling on, there will be some rough roads but any bike will be capable of this trip.
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Hi Victor
One life, live it. It will be an experience of a life time.
I travel on a Canadian passport mainly around Africa and visas alone cost me $50-$100 per country. So I'm thinking your budget of 5,000 euros may be a tad light. Shipping your bike will also take a good bite out of your budget.
I recently shipped my Landie from South Africa to Europe and back. That alone cost me $4,000 Canadian plus ferry costs to Morocco and Croatia.
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One important point, if you go through countries (Iran, Pakistan, India) that require a Carnet for your bike.
Before you buy the bike, look at the cost of the carnet, as this is based on the value of the bike! The more expensive the bike, the more expensive the carnet and the more money to put as "Bond" or buying "insurance".
I am currently sorting that out for my trip to Africa. My bike is cheap so the carnet will not be too costly, but even so...
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thanks for your advices and welcome!
I know about the "carnet" already get a lot of information from this website! I will double check but I saw we can avoid the deposit for the carnet with a letter of guarantee of our bank... so could cost nothing exept a paper!
Concerning my bugdet, the 5000€ is just to ship the bike! actually I plan around 25k€ for the whole trip(without bike and equipment) with a little margin just in case of.... according to what i saw/read it should be enough.
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