Mata-Mata border post | Customs and Immigration

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Fuel station Mata Mata in Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park

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Hi please take note there is a change crossing RSA TO NAMIBIA. No meat, no milk.butter and eggs. Lady said only vegetables.

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Exiting SA, Mata Mata into Namibia.

SA gate opened at 8am. No one else crossing and no waiting at all.

Immigration primary person super friendly. Required 3 addresses in Namibia during your stay.

Cross border Charge for Toyota hilux - (Type 2 vehicle) was NAD371 for 3 months, cash only, Rand Ok.

Police checked vehicle registration only - no vehicle search.

No carnet stamp available at border post but we were referred to Customs at Keetmanshoop (location per iOverlander).

Australian registered vehicle travelling on carnet, SA police at Twee Riverien insisted on stamping carnet out of SA even though we were remaining in SACU.

No problems having carnet stamped in Keetmanshoop.

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No firewood from Namibia into South Africa but meat and fresh veg ok. Nam side check you have a park booking before they will stamp you out. Friendly guy on Nam side , so nice to see a smiley guy on passport control.

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nice small border crossing crossing where you can exit Namibia directly into transfontier national park. do know if you come from Namibia, you need to book two nights in the park if you want to exit in twee rivieren. we made that mistake, as we thought to enter South Africa via here and take the park along the way.

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Exiting S.A entering to Nam- no need for TiP
(at least for south African registered cars)

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This border is open! You must full a formulier where you going in Namibia.
No carnet stamp here! The check your car for if you have meat, fruit, eggs, firewood it is not allowed to take it with you at the border! You must pay roadtax!

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As described before. No meat or firewood allowed either way, in and out. Have never heard that they don‘t allow fruit, vegetables or dairy as someone wrote below.
You need reservations in the park, book via Sunparks website or walk to the Sunparks reservation across the border in SA, they are very friendly.
Note that they cancel your road permit, you need to pay for a new one when you enter NAM again. It happened to us that their printer and cc machine didn‘t work, so we asked them to write it out manually and we paid in cash, otherwise they wouldn‘t let us leave.

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The border post is open now. Going from Namibia there is no visa fee, they stamp your passport. They would not let you take in meat, fruit, vegetables, dairy or firewood. Because of South African requirements they said we had to eat it there or put it in bin. When we went through the South Africans said no such requirement only meat and firewood. Going from South Africa to Namibia there is a charge for foreign vehicles 377 N$. You cannot take meat or firewood in.

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The embassy in Capetown reported this border crossing is still closed for going into Namibia.

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A sanparks camp, great ablutions same as other Sanparks camps in Kgalagadi.
Very little shade or lush tree coverings, and obviously sites are only sand.
swimming pool is great.
no network, have to buy camp wifi that's expensive.
Great game viewing on all our drives.
This border to Nam is closed

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We don’t like the way, but I think it’s better to book in advance. It was hard to find a (camping) spot somewhere. And you have to be two nights in the park because they think if you are shoter you use the park as a shortcut. You have to go out at the same gate as you enter if you have only one booking in the park.

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The gate is open till 4.30pm. You need a reservation in the Nationalpark but they just asked us and didn’t check. You have to stay at least two or three days in the park.
Make sure that you receive a „leave Namibia“ stamp. For entering South Africa you have to go to Twee Rivieren but it’s not a problem if you’re doing it after some days.
They don’t check if you have alcohol or food with you.

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Coming from Namibia:
- we had to walk at the Mata-Mata reception desk and pay at least for two nights in the park (you can also do the booking before via internet),
- show the receipt at the Namibian immigration to get the passports stamp out
- no stamp on the carnet
- no control from South African immigration (no entry stamp on the passports)

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