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Carnet de Passage Explained: The Ultimate Guide for Overland Travel
If you’re planning your first big overland trip or dreaming of vanlife routes far off the beaten track, sooner or later you’ll bump into that mysterious document: the Carnet de Passage. It sounds fancy and bureaucratic, especially in French, but really it’s nothing more than a passport for your car or motorbike. When we first learned we needed one for our overland expedition, we had about a thousand…
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Driving to Thailand with your own car: Foreign Vehicle Permit and border crossing guide
We’ve crossed quite a few borders during our overland expedition, but driving to Thailand? That one made us sweat a little more than usual. Not because of the heat (though… that too), but because of the paperwork. If you’re planning to drive your own car, campervan, or motorbike into Thailand, there’s one thing you should know: you can’t just show up at the border and wing it. Not…