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Shipping your vehicle across the Darien Gap seems to be one of those unknown elements in your trip to South America. There are all kinds of stories about travelers attempting, unsuccessfully, to get across. There are also success stories. Sometimes people have spent thousands getting vehicles shipped. It is not easy to deal with all the paperwork needed to make it a success. Here is a story about some fellow travelers who managed to ship a VW van across the Darien Gap for only $355!!
“Mission accomplished!! Thanks for all your positive vibes – you can all uncross your fingers and toes now! Yes, we made it, and everything in the van is intact! But for any of you perhaps thinking of embarking on a similar journey at some future date, let us backtrack and provide a few details*……it wasn’t all a piece of cake.
We had been told by the shipping agent to have the van at Puerto Caldera, a small port on the Costa Rican pacific coast, by early Tuesday morning in order to complete the necessary paper work. Sparkling clean, and emptied of all foodstuffs, we complied, only to be told to return the next morning at 9 am as they were running behind schedule due to port congestion. We headed off to “put in time for a day” and to find lodgings for the night. We were lucky to have the company of Adrian and Tanja (a nice young Swiss couple who had been travelling throughout North and Central America for the last fourteen months) who were shipping their Mercedes van on the same vessel.”
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