Hey Guys,

After longer contact with the turkisch shipping agency we determined the 16th of August as our shipping date from Iskenderun to Damietta. So this is our first deadline, yet, its not too bad if we won´t make it since the vessel is leaving every week and they have plenty of space for motorbikes.

The paperwork for the trip is coming together as well. First, we got our carnets!

With the carnet and a tonn of additional paperwork we went to the ethiopian embassy in Frankfurt and got our ethiopian visa 🙂

The visa application was relatively hassle free and after only 4:30 h we could collect our visa. It was not very clear which kind of additional information they needed, so we just copied everything we have and handed this in with the application…

Next up: Sudan Visa!

Just a quick update on the state of planing right now.

Estimated time of departure is roughly the 5th of August.

I am in contact with the freight company UNRORO in Turkey for the shipment of our bikes to Egypt. On the phone they said „no problem, just come here we’ll ship you guys“ but we are still waiting for an e-mail conformation which would be nice before we ride the 3300 km from here to Iskenderun…