[S1 - Eps. 53] Crossing into Iran

So as you can see I am now on the ferry and already here on the ferry I have to start covering my hair so from now on when I arrive in Iran I have to cover my hair either by my helmet or like this so so many things have happened Good morning Internet it is 11.50 in the morning still and welcome back to the channel today is the big day I will be taking a ferry to Iran the ferry only leaves at 9 o'clock in the evening and then it'll be an overnight ferry but I already have to be in the port at 4 p.m. to arrange the paperwork to do the custom clearance and all of that it's about an hour ride to the port but before I go there I'm first gonna ride past Royal Enfield shop and the free spirit motorcycle shop because last week I met loads of people there and I just want to say bye before I go because I went to the Royal Enfield shop on Tuesday I think and they invited me to the Royal Enfield bikers gala which was on Friday which was really cool and I met so many new people and we did a lot of talking about motorcycles and they gave me several presents they gave me a new set of gloves these ones which I'm super happy with because they're quite a bit tougher than the ones I had and I'm using them well yeah almost every day so they wear quite quickly so I'm super happy with these new ones and they gave me a t-shirt and they gave me some spare tubes and in the free spirit motorcycle shop they checked Basanti, they checked every little screw on her and she got fully cleaned and they also insisted that I didn't pay them so it was all it was just an amazing week in Dubai I met so many cool people so before I'm leaving I just want to say goodbye to all of them so let's go Hi, how are you? I'm good, how are you? Good, good to see you. So this is the Royal Enfield shop in Dubai I'll show it to you because so last I think it was Tuesday I came here with Basanti and they did a full checkup and I decided to do an oil change it was a little bit early but it is the last Royal Enfield shop until I don't know a very long time so better be prepared so they gave Basanti an oil change and checked everything so all is ready to go so this is the shop it's quite big oh I didn't see this one yeah same engine nice so is this one is that from somebody this one wow that is so cool people do like sidecars in Dubai yeah people put sidecars on the bikes it looks like he took it for a ride in the desert so this is their workshop so Basanti was standing right here last week so we really wish that you have a great journey and we have a little good luck over here oh that's awesome this goes on your Royal Enfield oh cool goes on your jacket cool yay I will, thanks for everything Good morning Basanti Good morning, hi How are you? I am good and you? Welcome back Today I leave no? Yes So they got a lot of different bikes in here they have some Ducati over here and dirt bikes and all sorts of things baby Basanti and they also do custom custom made bikes so they build them all from scratch this is the workshop so they are building this one all the way from scratch completely custom I will just go right to the port now I have to go to Sharjah to port Khalid or something so I am just going to go there it will take a lot of time to do all the paperwork anyway so it is better to be there a bit early the visibility is really poor by the way I think it is windy over the desert or something the air is just full of dust so that is a bit of a shame because Basanti got cleaned yesterday completely but I think by the time I reach the port she will be full of sand again but anyway let's go so as you can see I am now on the ferry and already here on the ferry I have to start covering my hair so from now on when I arrive in Iran I have to cover my hair either by my helmet or like this so many things have happened I will try and explain everything that happened so I arrive at the port and at the entrance gate the security says where is your red paper I say what red paper they say go to that building so I go to another building and I say can I have a red paper they say where is your white paper I don't have a white paper so turns out that I have to ride 10 minutes back into Sharjah into town, go to an agency buy a ticket there because I thought I already had it arranged but apparently not so I go there, buy the ticket race back to the port again then I get my white paper then I got my red paper so they eventually let me in then I had to go to another office and then they gave me a blue paper and another white paper and I don't know it was quite complicated and I was just running around from place to place in the end after quite some waiting they picked me up to go to immigration to get my stamp and my passport at that point there were a lot of people I think we were total about 100 passengers and after some 20 passengers the whole system shut down so nobody could get stamped out of the Emirates anymore so we waited, we waited, then a bus came and they took us to another office like a 10 minute ride system was also down there so they said okay go back so we all went back again then waited more, waited more several hours later because now it's already I think 8.30 at night we are supposed to leave in half an hour but I don't think that will happen eventually they collected the passports of everybody, they took them away and 15 minutes later or half an hour later they came back gave my passport back, I have a stamp of the Emirates so I am officially stamped out of the Emirates and I am now waiting on the ferry for the rest of the passengers but then we probably still won't leave because it's really bad weather it's been raining and very windy so it's likely that we have to wait until the weather improves and then we can go so Basanti is downstairs at the lower deck she's all tied up so that's okay oh and then they made a mistake with the Carnet so by accident they stamped the Carnet in the wrong place costing me another page of the Carnet so I am really bummed about that and I hope it's not going to give me problems later because now it's completely messed up and stamped in the wrong place anyway I don't know what they have to say about that in Iran but anyway so far so good I am on the ferry, Basanti is on the ferry and hopefully we will leave soon and then it's going to be an 11 hour ride or ferry ride and in the morning I will hopefully arrive in Iran and this is where I will be sleeping tonight so yeah I am just going to stretch out on these chairs and then hopefully I will get some sleep and that was it I am in Iran oh I am exhausted it was a long night at the ferry I think I slept maybe 4 or 5 hours or something so not very much and then when the ferry finally arrived so it took in total it was 11 hours sailing then when the ferry finally arrived we first had to wait on board of the ferry for another hour and then we had to go to immigration that actually went pretty quickly, that was a matter of stamping the passport because I already had my visa of course and then I had to get Basanti cleared and that was again a whole process and getting stamps and then going to this office and then going to that office and wait here and wait there so in total that took another 4 hours but I got it done my Carnet is stamped and I just rode into Bandar Abbas so from the port to Bandar Abbas was another I don't know 15 minute ride or something and I couldn't really book anything up front so I was just riding in the first sign of a hotel that I saw I thought okay I see a hotel, let's go there because I want to shower and just relax a little bit so this is my room it's pretty basic but fine, perfect I didn't even check the bathroom yet so this is the bathroom so all pretty good so now I'm going to have some rest then I have to go and change some money because I brought US dollars with me and I have to change them here to Riyal but it's not really a good idea to do a big amount at once because one US dollar is 100,000 Riyal so yeah then you're going to end up with a lot of money so I'm just going to change a little bit and I'm also going to look for a local SIM card so I have internet on my phone anyway for me the main thing is that even though it was a long journey and it took a lot of time and paperwork and stamps and stuff everything went fine there were no difficult questions or nothing, nothing really so it was just a matter of going through all the procedures but other than that it was absolutely fine so I am now in Iran, I'm super happy and yeah I have a 30 day visa so I have plenty of time to see something of this country so anyway even though I couldn't record a lot of it because I didn't want to risk it with authorities and you're not allowed to take videos or photographs at ports so I couldn't record anything but anyway I still hope you liked this video if you did please give me a big thumbs up and subscribe down below and then in the next video that will be the first riding video in Iran so I am looking forward to it and I hope you too!