Egypt Holiday - Equipment & Customs

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Hello all.

I'm lucky enough to be going on holiday to Egypt on Saturday. I plan to take my gear with me. There seem to be some restrictions on taking valuable equipment back out of the country. I.E. you need to be able to prove that you did not buy it there.

Some websites suggest that it will be recorded on my passport on entry. Is this correct? Do I need to do anything before I go or will this all be automatically handled when I arrive.

Just struggling to find decent sources of info on the net so any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
I always (when travelling to less developed countries) take a list with me of equipment and serial numbers included the flight numbers of where and when I will be leaving the country again and take a few copies with me. If you are worried, you can get it stamped by customs on the way in and the way out again.

I had to do that in South Africa as they were concerned I would be selling the kit out there.
 
This is probably going to sound ridiculous.
You could take a photo of yourself with all the gear, and todays newspaper.
 
djs said:
This is probably going to sound ridiculous.
You could take a photo of yourself with all the gear, and todays newspaper.
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Surrounded by piles of cash?
 
The newspaper thing doesn't really stand up in this scenario. As you could just take the newspaper with you, buy a load of gear then take the photo ;)

For proof of life its the other way around (for time), used to prove they haven't killed you yet.
 
I've been to Egypt twice recently for work and have never been stopped or questioned on this. No one checked anything, that was via Cairo
 
Take a photo of all your gear, then put it in an envelope and get it stamped at the post office? depends how far they want to go for you to prove prior ownership I guess!
 
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