We left the Island somewhat regretfully and headed of to Jahor with no idea where we were staying or even a street map to help us, so we arrived with not a clue, when in doubt ask a Yamaha rider, I asked said rider and he took us to the Zon hotel which is in a duty free part of Jahor, still bloody expensive!!!! we made the mistake of having to many beers and had to check in at the very expensive Zon hotel, it was more expensive because they only had 2 suites left, very nice they were to, we stayed there for 2 nights and then me an Bruce went off to find somewhere more to our budget. We found a great hotel in town that was part of the same chain as the hotel we stayed in in Port Dickson at a quarter the price of Zon so the 3 of us moved there.
So,,,,,,,,,,, in to Singapore or so we thought, I had the name of a shipping agent who could arrange shipping to Darwin or so I was told, so armed with the address we headed off on the causway over to Singapore only to be deported on arrival, well actually it was only the bikes that were deported, turns out we would need to register the bikes, tax them for a year, insure them for a year, all this just to ride em to the docks.
Hmmmmmm, plan B was needed!!!!!!!!! I asked the manager of the hotel we were staying in does he know anybody who can help with the shipping, ah yes he sais you need to meet Mr yap who as it happens is just next door. So off to meet Mr Yap who turned out to be a star, yes we can ship to OZ from Jahor but no not to Darwin, the best he could do was Brisbane. As this is only 100km south of my Bros place we decided to go for it and worry about how the hell we would get from Darwin to Brisbane(we were determined to do OZ overland, if not on the bikes)
Things went very slowly for a few days and then all hell broke loose, can you meet me at the docks Mr Yap says on the phone, yeh sure I said, when? NOW he asked so off we went to meet the cargo forwarder who had his carpenter standing by to crate the bikes up, I was still getting off the bike whilst he was measuring up! I,ll put some pics up of our time in Jahor bear with me as I,m using a new format for the pictures, it must be easier as I did them twice at the last attempt, ho hum
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
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