Guinea Bissau - Guinea - Conakry | Customs and Immigration

March 16th, 2024 by adversetoenail54

As described below.
Small, easy and relaxed border crossing.
No bribes, very friendly staff.
Were done in 15 minutes.
Road to the boarder is quite hard, road after Guinea border even harder-but doable with LOTS of patience, also without 4×4.

February 14th, 2024 by Toby2101

Everything gets without problems. All people are friendly & helpful.
Super easy, took us about 15 Min. for Everything.

January 14th, 2024 by ontournow

When we leave the UK everything is chill. In the building on the right, the passports are stamped and noted. The CdP was stamped on the left side and the vehicle details were also noted at the police station on the left side. After a short time we are finished and a police officer drops the rope so we can drive through.

December 18th, 2023 by totointhewild

Btw they did stamp our passports in, not only the copy of the evisa!!

December 18th, 2023 by totointhewild

What a lovely and chilled border crossing. People on both sides very nice. It’s a sleepy border, we were the only ones there and the Chef of Douanes had to be called to stamp our CdP. He came after 2 minutes and knew what to do. Very friendly officers and we had a good chat about soccer with the guys on Guinean side. They did stamp our passports and the evisa printouts.
The road after the boarder is not a highway! Took us 2h for 40km but the guys at the boarder said it’ll take 1h. Not sure how that’ll work but we might just be terrible drivers.

November 26th, 2023 by travelove.org

Guinea-Bissau to Guinea:
Guinea-Bissau side was super smiling, super nice people. Had a good chat with them. Lovely! All clear.
Guinea side the lazy border police guys were annoying because bikes have to circle around the tree instead of using the track and they made us push the bikes backwards, yelling at us. Just watch where moto taxis go. That’s where you are supposed to go as well. 🙈
Customs is directly after the rope on the right side. Customs guy took the Carnets to somewhere else to register something, then came back to stamp them in his office. Was also a nice experience, he knew what to do.

Immigration at Guinea side is a bit further on the left side in a white-blue building. Guy was nice and friendly, also had a nice and longer chat with him. Very welcoming. They only stamp the copy of your entry visa, not the passport and keep one of the two copies.

First 40km of road to Koundara is a bit demanding for inexperienced motorbike riders, but if you know how to handle sand, ruts and washouts, it’s truly a fun day riding out. Beware of the trucks on the sometimes narrow track when racing around corners. :-) For those who struggle on loose ground: come very early as it will be very hot and the cooler the better.

November 22nd, 2023 by britta_borderless

Guinea-Bissau -> Guinea

Easy border. No bribes.

Have your Guinean visa printed out twice. They keep one copy and stamp the other one. They don’t stamp passport. Get your visa sticker in Conakry airport.

They told us to get a passavant in Sambailo because we didn’t have a CDP. But in Sambailo they told us that we don’t need one. Even talked to the big boss. We didn’t get a passavant. Visa is enough. Waist of time going to Sambailo. It’s a messy boarder post anyways.

October 14th, 2023 by benjamin.michaelis.net

Crossing Conakry to Bissau

Exiting Conakry; very very easy process. Took maybe 20 minutes at max. Immigration wanted us to have two copies of our e-visa but it worked out fine still that we didn’t, and he gave us the stamped copy back.

Entering Bissau:
First stop before gate and walk to first building on right to fill our vehicle and driver information. Then pass through gate and go to second building on the left. This is where the hassle began. We needed a VOA, which is fine with them, but it is 55,000 CFA/visa and in addition (this was the hassle for us because we don’t have a true third seat), then it cost 10,000 CFA for a immigration official to sit in our car with us and we drive them to Gabu while they hold our passports to get our visa stamp at the immigration office in Gabu. It seemed all by the books (no bribes or such) but was a hassle to try to squeeze a third person in for a 3 hour bad road car ride for them to hold our own passports. In hindsight if I knew about this process, I think I would have gotten a visa from an embassy or such first.

Customs is across from immigration, and straightforward, stamped our CDP.

June 23rd, 2023 by pmarroquin

Going to Guinea Conakry, You can stamp the passport and carnet de passage at this point. Very friendly people.

April 13th, 2023 by paulo-machado

For french People- pour les français : effectivement il y a un jeune douanier qui est assez désagréable avec ceux qui ont un passeport français. Il a d'abord vu le passeport portugais de moins conjoint, pas de soucis, pas de remarque. Puis le mien français et là j'ai eu un cours sur la responsabilité des français en Afrique, la lutte de la Guinée Conakry que la France a voulu continuer d'affaiblir après son indépendance, de Gaulle et tout le reste et que nous les touristes français il ne faut pas penser qu'on vient en terrain conquis et que lui la police peut décider si on a le droit d'entrer ou pas dans le pays etc .... j'ai gardé le sourire, profil bas et une fois le monologue terminé grand merci monsieur et bonne journée. Il n'y a pas grand chose d'autre à faire. Toutes les autres personnes sont charmantes et en restant calme avec cette personne ça passe.

February 13th, 2023 by thefilmppl

Easy and calm border. Everyone is really friendly, took us about 1,5h for both sides. Remember to have two copies of the Guinee visa.

December 12th, 2022 by polarsteps.com

Bissau to Conakry.

Easy border. Nothing to pay. The road is not very good when you arrive in Guinea Conakry.

November 27th, 2022 by leptitreporter.com

Bissau to Conakry

No problem on both sides, everyone was super nice.
Bissau side, first immigration then douane then military. Cross the no man’s land for 1 or 2 kilometres. Conakry side, first immigration then douane for CPD if you have one.

If you don’t have CPD like us, the passavant is done in Sambaïlo, they couldn’t give us one in Koundara and can’t do it at the border.

Don’t forget to print your Guinean visa twice as they need to keep one at the border. We did it in Bafata !

Nothing to pay on both side at the border :) easy border

October 3rd, 2022 by Lemontree

In case you applied for the Guinea Conakry Visa online, bring 2 copies of the visa confirmation. This is a small border post and they do not have the equipment to make the proper passport sticker. So, they keep one copy of the visa and stamp the other one for you to keep it in the passport.
We only had one copy and they gave us first some trouble for it, but in the end arranged the copies for us.
Also they asked for a "fiche" with all our personal data, so they wouldn't need to write it themselves into their books. However, the one we made for Morocco was not good enough for them...

October 3rd, 2022 by travelburners

From Bissau to Conakry
No problem on Bissau side. Friendly people. Easy access, stamp and passport super fast.

BUT !
Arrived in Conakry side. The first policemen we saw was super annoying us. Ultra nationalist against French people, we were super close to go back. the guy insult us and tried to use his small power to trouble us. be careful frenchies friends ...

October 4th, 2019 by geoffreythisis

Boarder formalities fine, the road either side wasn't great but in particular the road through 'no Mans land' was terrible, it had rained heavily last night and the road was essentially had a gully/riverbed down the middle of it.

May 29th, 2019 by gritschontour.com

very easy border crossing, both sides are very friendly maybe 15 minutes in total. Carnet both sides no problem.

March 6th, 2019 by ben.patrick89

just a little update, also lacking information on this crossing so figured I would share. My experience is leaving Bissau to Conackry.
Customs and passport stamping out done in the same place. They weren't sure about what to do with the passavant. They stamped it and gave it back. I didn't really care because they let me leave the border so no problem. The Conackry side was also easy and friendly. I guess if you already have your visa sorted you won't have a problem. They will tell you to park at the douane and then walk up the road 30m to immigration. Go to immigration and get stamped in, friendly dude. Go back to duoane, he just records your details, says you don't need a passavant but I will be getting one tomorrow morning here in Koundara since I've had some unfriendly experiences with cops and customs a few times now and could not be bothered with the argument about the passavant.

The road...at least for motorbikes is totally fine in the dry on the Bissau side from Gabu. The usual potholes and broken road for a while, which bikes can just avoid off the side. last 20km or so is easy piste, averaged about 70km/h. The Conackry side is a bit of a laugh, would not enjoy it in a 4x4 due to the probable slow progress, but on a bike in the dry it's generally fine but a bit slow going just taking a bit of care. The road on the Conackry side maaaaay be possible in a 2wd but you would be needing a lot of spotting I think to get through without a problem. I guess the ferry may be the easier route for cars. Fine for 4x4 but slow progress in spots. There, all the information you were ever wondering about this crossing :)

June 25th, 2018 by slava

Easy border. No problems, no asking for money.

May 1st, 2018 by mail

Very unfriendly border. Haggled on the visa price and wanted more than one hundred euro for a transit Visum. We just decided to leave the border and go back to guinea to go directly to Senegal...

April 2nd, 2018 by irene

This border closes at 6pm.

We didn’t had problem but we also didn’t had a car.

Bad road from Gabú to here, and bad road from here to Koundara. Koundara-Labé (April 2018) asphalted except 25Km in the middle.