Although Bali has plenty of shipping agents who "Can Do Anything" finding a reliable one was areal challenge. The one we had relied on till the last day decided to raise the shipping cost from $1100 to $1550 on the morning of the shipping.

This does not include any insurance!But fortunately we had met Mr Falah (by far the most reliable and helpful shipping agent we found in whole of Indonesia) form AirTiger Shipping in Jakarta while we were there and had initially advised us do all the custom clearance ourselves to avoid the money grabbing and baksheesh by the middleman and he would organise the container space.

So we gave up trying to ship the bike from Bali and rushed to international port of Surabaya in east Java to get the bike shipped with in the next week as our visa was running out.Surabaya has absolutely nothing to offer in terms of attractions but most of the week was spent sorting out the paper work and explaining packers and haulagers how to do their job.

And the rest of the time was spent running between custom offices to get the export permit. There is actually no need for any export documents as the bike is brought in to Indonesia under the "Carnet De Passage" which allows temporary import. The cost of shipping the bike to Spain was, with out the middle man was around $860, quite a bit less than the agents were offering. The bike will head to Spain from Surabaya (Java) via Singapore.

After all that effort we waited till the bike was in the container before making our way to the airport to to take the flight to Singapore