Visa requirements on Tour de Africa

As a series of post and things to clear out, collection of visa requirements for possible countries to visit from citizen of Finland point of view.

Morocco

No visa required for tourist trips.

Finland has official representation in the country: http://www.finlande.ma.

Mauritania

Visa is required and can be acquired through French embassy in Helsinki: http://www.ambafrance-fi.org.

Finland has no representation in the country, closest one is in Abuja, Nigeria.

Senegal

No visa required for tourist trips.

Finland has no representation in the country, but embassy of Sweden in Dakar is helping. Also same as for Mauritania from Abuja, Nigeria.

Gambia

Visa is not required for stays up to 28 days as tourist.

Finland has no representation in the country. Closest Gambian embassy is in London.

Guinea-Bissau

Visa is required, closest embassy in Brussels, Belgium.

Finland has no representation in the country. Embassy of Portugal in Bissau is helping.

Guinea

Visa is required, closest embassy in Moscow, Russia.

Finland has no representation in the country.

Mali

Visa is required, closest embassy in Berlin, Germany.

Finland has no representation in the country.

Burkina Faso

Visa is required, closest embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Finland has no representation in the country, Royal Dutch Embassy in Ouagadougou is helping.

Algeria

Visa is required, closest embassy is in Stockholm, Sweden.

Finland has representation in Alger: http://www.finlandalgeria.org.

Tunisia

Visa is not required.

Finland has representation in Tunis: http://www.finlandtunis.org.

 

For Vehicle

CPD (Carnet de Passages en Douane) is not required for the countries on my list except for Senegal and this requirement is only for vehicles older than 5 years. I can imagine why this is…

So for this purpose I do not have to contact Swedish Motormännes to get the CDP.

 

Summary

So it looks like that some of required visas can be acquired from Finland, but probably the place for the rest of those is again our friend VES visa-Express service in Berlin, Germany: https://www.expressvisa.de. I have used their services now for couple of years and have always got just perfect service in agreed time period!

Can highly recommend this company.