Thread: Shipping 110 to Africa or Europe

There's another thread at the moment about shipping cars overseas, so a lot can be gleaned from that.

Anyone taken their pride and joy (ie. Land Rover) on a holiday ... overseas?

I was toying with the idea of doing the South African thing in years to come, when the family are older. If you're afraid of wars, then South Africa has a road toll to match most military conflicts, a high level of AIDS (recently a motorist got AIDS from the pedestrian she ran over after the paramedic assessed both of them, but didn't change gloves), and a high risk of violent crime like car jacking.

Anyway, that aside, I reckon it would be great to ship the car across and work passage on the cargo ship, hence travelling with your car, and adding to the adventure. From SA I was thinking of Namibia & Botswana. There's great desert driving in Namibia and the Okavango would be a must see.

I don't know if you can get a ship direct to Windhoek (Namibia), and by-pass South Africa. Then do the Okavango, into Botswana, and work your way East, then North.

Once in Egypt, it would be difficult to decide if the Middle East would be better, or whether it would be more fun crossing Libya and Morocco and then shipping up to Spain.

Dont bypass South Africa, ship it to Durban and drive down the east coast thru the beautiful garden route to Capetown then across to Namibia and then back across to Northern SA and into Botswana, the Okavango Delta is paradise and well wirth a flight into a basecamp for further exploring. Then up to Zim to vic falls, Harare etc, over the bridge into Livingstone Zambia, up to Cape Mc Clear on lake Malawi and then onto Tanzania to the Ngorongoro Crater and Kilimanjaro and onto Kenya. I did it in reverse but would love love to do it sth to nth in a FC101 decked out.

The big issue that you have to consider is if you intend to return your pride and joy back to Australia.

AQIS has probably the World's worst reputation for restriction on the arrival of vehicles into or even back into Australia. Even the Australian Army's Perenties were little more than a pile of metal parts on a pallet after AQIS did their thing in Iraq.

You may want to consider buying a vehicle in the UK or Europe and driving it down to Africa and then sell it.

If you do bring a vehicle back, make sure you steam clean it throroughly inside and out immediately before putting in a container at the embarkation port. Paying particular attention to insects and visable dirt/mud in crevises. Otherwise you will have to pay for the cleaning at the Australian port of arrival and somethimes this may add up to a charge of hundreds and even almost thousands of dollars.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

The big issue that you have to consider is if you intend to return your pride and joy back to Australia.

AQIS has probably the World's worst reputation for restriction on the arrival of vehicles into or even back into Australia. Even the Australian Army's Perenties were little more than a pile of metal parts on a pallet after AQIS did their thing in Iraq.

You may want to consider buying a vehicle in the UK or Europe and driving it down to Africa and then sell it.

If you do bring a vehicle back, make sure you steam clean it throroughly inside and out immediately before putting in a container at the embarkation port. Paying particular attention to insects and visable dirt/mud in crevises. Otherwise you will have to pay for the cleaning at the Australian port of arrival and somethimes this may add up to a charge of hundreds and even almost thousands of dollars.

Key words here are " taking it back to Ireland" ie its a one way trip . And AQIS arent that bad , if its dirty it will just need to be be cleaned to a satisfactory level before it will be released - budget for that and it will be ok.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Key words here are " taking it back to Ireland" ie its a one way trip . And AQIS arent that bad , if its dirty it will just need to be be cleaned to a satisfactory level before it will be released - budget for that and it will be ok.

I read the back to ireland, but thought you may consider the return but O.K. if not.

About AQIS - yes they are that bad.

AQIS made the ADF remove the seats, the wiring harnesses, all fluids and the tyres before they were steam cleaned, packed and shipped back to Oz from Iraq. Anthony Johnston of Melbourne 101 fame, was charged over a thousand dollars for steam cleaning and he still found a birds nest on the vehicle. Another friend had a clansman radio confiscated because it's wiring was dusty.

I can go on.

It's a one way trip...for now anyway.

Loanrangies trip is something along the lines of the route I was thinking of. How long did you take with your trip south? I've wanted a 101 since I first saw one as a wee nipper...wife is having nothing of it though!

I like Michael2s idea of travelling with the 110 on the cargo ship but didn't think that was possible...have you any more info on how to go about that?

Egypt and the top end worries me...I've heard that Egypt can be an expensive nightmare to get into and I'm not so sure that Libya and Algeria are that happy about handing out visas. Morocco and Europe will be easy.

Originally Posted by angm

It's a one way trip...for now anyway.

Loanrangies trip is something along the lines of the route I was thinking of. How long did you take with your trip south? I've wanted a 101 since I first saw one as a wee nipper...wife is having nothing of it though!

I like Michael2s idea of travelling with the 110 on the cargo ship but didn't think that was possible...have you any more info on how to go about that?

Egypt and the top end worries me...I've heard that Egypt can be an expensive nightmare to get into and I'm not so sure that Libya and Algeria are that happy about handing out visas. Morocco and Europe will be easy.

We took 6 weeks, Mombassa to Capetown and then i spent 2 months in SA before flying home.