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Originally Posted by NYLon2000
How far is it reasonably possible to get your bike, before you pack it in and ship/fly it to Aus?
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I only went Sumatra-Java-Bali, transport wasn´t a problem between those islands. I was planning to continue to East Timor, but the 2008 coup attempt in Dili, and resulting unrest over there put paid to that plan. So I airfreighted out of Bali.
It is my understanding, based on my research before/during my trip, and following the forums afterwards, that the route from Sumatra to East Timor is the most common way for overlanders to go through Indonesia, and the most common shipping route is Dili<->Darwin. There are no international ferry routes to/from Australia. There are ferry lines going basically all over Indonesia, but don´t expect daily departures, and getting the timetables could be a pain – it´s not like in Europe or in the US!! To go further east or northeast from Timor, you´d need lots of time, and I don´t know how feasible it would be to have a bike with you over there. A small (100-200cc) bike or a scooter could be easier to load on some smaller boat or ferry.
To give some idea, here´s the long-distance ferry ´timetable´ in Benoa harbour, Bali, in February 2008 (that same company had webpages, too, but they had not been updated in four years!)... I really don´t know how it works now, but at least back then it seemed a bit complicated.
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