Me and my girlfriend we bought and registered two new Honda Wave 100cc in Vietnam. Our plan is to get to Malaysia. Now we are in Laos.
Motorbikes were bought from Honda in HCMC. It took us 10 days to make all paper work. Now we have:
1. Registration documents. (on Vietnamese citizen)
2. Selling agreement between him and me. Sealed by lawyer and local authority.
3. Officially sealed English translation of document I mentioned above.
4. Signed and sealed by officials copy of ID and home stay papers.
5. In case of problems signet permit for use and export.
6. TM2 and TM4 for Thailand.
The story:
We started in HCMC. After few days we arrived to Bo Y border crossing with Lao. Vietnam was easy. No problems at all. At Lao side they let us go but we said that we would like to cross Laos to get to Thailand, Malaysia and we would like to get any document that the bike are legally in Lao. We show them a copy of import documents we found on GT-rider.com. But they that they do not have such form. We asked for Temporary Import Permit - they said that it is for cars only. Finally after 3h of waiting they send us away to Attapau. The road from Bo Y to Attapau is beautiful, good condition, no traffic. We spend a night in the city and next morning we stared to visit diffident offices. We have been in 9 and always they send us away to another one. We found one very helpful official he was doing all job for us. We spend whole day do get any paper finally we have no single one.
Now we are traveling in Laos on Vietnamese motorbikes. We want to get to Thailand. We have documents I listed at the beginning of this post. Questions:
1. Do we need any other documents to leave legally Laos?
2. What border crossing is hassle free?
Best regards,
Marta and Bartek!
Motorbikes were bought from Honda in HCMC. It took us 10 days to make all paper work. Now we have:
1. Registration documents. (on Vietnamese citizen)
2. Selling agreement between him and me. Sealed by lawyer and local authority.
3. Officially sealed English translation of document I mentioned above.
4. Signed and sealed by officials copy of ID and home stay papers.
5. In case of problems signet permit for use and export.
6. TM2 and TM4 for Thailand.
The story:
We started in HCMC. After few days we arrived to Bo Y border crossing with Lao. Vietnam was easy. No problems at all. At Lao side they let us go but we said that we would like to cross Laos to get to Thailand, Malaysia and we would like to get any document that the bike are legally in Lao. We show them a copy of import documents we found on GT-rider.com. But they that they do not have such form. We asked for Temporary Import Permit - they said that it is for cars only. Finally after 3h of waiting they send us away to Attapau. The road from Bo Y to Attapau is beautiful, good condition, no traffic. We spend a night in the city and next morning we stared to visit diffident offices. We have been in 9 and always they send us away to another one. We found one very helpful official he was doing all job for us. We spend whole day do get any paper finally we have no single one.
Now we are traveling in Laos on Vietnamese motorbikes. We want to get to Thailand. We have documents I listed at the beginning of this post. Questions:
1. Do we need any other documents to leave legally Laos?
2. What border crossing is hassle free?
Best regards,
Marta and Bartek!