In Reply to: bringing carvings home? posted by Tia on Tuesday, 20. July 2004 at 08:49 Bali Time:
for the wood when you buy them... I brought a heap of wood back, Chess set, a large elephant , wooden jewellry boxes, carved wooden bowls, but make sure you check out that there's no holes in the wood, I had a large bowl taken off me cause there were some small holes in them.. try and have all your wood in one bag and declare them all when you go through customs... they check them out thoroughly...anything to do with animal skin, dont bother bringing them back cause they'll take them off you.. eg. bongo drums, they have elephant skin on them. also elephant ornaments, make sure the tusks are wood, otherwise if there the real thing, they take them off ya aswell....If you have any holes in your wood and they go straight through to the other end they usually pass them, but otherwise dont bother...