Formalities to leave a vehicule in a foreign country

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Moonman
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Formalities to leave a vehicule in a foreign country

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Hello to everyone,
First of all, sorry not to speak german, and even not a good english… ‘cause I’m french.
I’m new on this forum, I’m very happy and thank you all for being a new member :)
I’m looking for an information that I can’t find. But on this topic, what I could understand make me feel close to the answer…
With my wife and kids, we plan to travel with a 4x4 truck in Africa and around the world but the problem is that we’ll need to come back to France very often. Going far, we won’t come back with the truck each time (too complicate, too expensive and not good for the environnement) and would like to leave it in different coutries every year. For 6 to 12 months. This is the condition to make our project become reality…
My question is not on the security (the place to park it) but on the legal right to arrive in a country with a truck, and leave the country without it, then come back monthes later to take it back and leave the country with it. On what I read on this topic it seems possible in african countries and in Middle east (?), but : is it possible in most of the countries in the world ? In south america, Asia, in Australia and NZ ? Is it difficult to organise ?…
We’ll be very happy to have answers on this subject. Thank you very much to everyone…
Rufus
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Re: Formalities to leave a vehicule in a foreign country

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Hello Moonman,
welcome to the Wüstenschiff-Forum!
The most important document, you need for your Car/Truck is a Carnet de Passages (CDP), which is like a Passport for your vehicle.
This Document allows it, to enter in a Country with the car for one year, but not to pay toll-fees for it (maybe some small custom-taxes). After one year you have to renew the document and you have to cross a border to the next country. Or to stamp the old document out and new one in at the border/custom-office. This document you can get at your Automobile-Club.
https://www.automobile-club.org/tourism ... -en-douane
https://www.adac.de/reise-freizeit/reis ... s/english/

A lot of members of this Forum are traveling like this: enter a county with the Carnet, find a safe place to leave the vehicle and come back not later than one year to continue the jouney. When you come back you have to do some paperworks: stamp the old and the new Carnet, buy a new Insurance etc...
Hope , this information is helpfull...
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Rudi
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Achim Vogt
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Re: Formalities to leave a vehicule in a foreign country

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Hello Moonman,

Welcome to the Wüstenschiff! As Rufus / Rudi has rightly said, this is actually a way of intermittent traveling for many on this and other fora. The conditions and regulations differ from country to country but you can do it in most countries. This holds true for Africa, parts of the Middle East (the UAE is where many do it for example), but also for a number of countries on the silk road as well as in Latin America. Not all countries are equally easy, but in many you will find places that are more or less well known among travellers.

Best of luck and safe travels,
Achim
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Re: Formalities to leave a vehicule in a foreign country

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Salut,
En Afrique vous pouvez trouvez des storage-places en Senegal/Gambie/Togo/Kenya/RSA/Namibia
En Amerique de sude chez Andeanroads, aussi locations des Camping cars(30km nord de BA!
USA & Canada dans Le Woodalls Camping ground directorie(avec indications: storage-place)
pas mal des Americains le font.
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Moonman
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Re: Formalities to leave a vehicule in a foreign country

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Thank you everyone for these positive answers ! With it we can go on with this project !…
Now time to build the truck that will help the dream come true…
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