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........... my wife works over there and she's finding out too regarding this matter ...........
forzac, what method is your wife using to "find out" on this matter? Because be careful that she/you don't fall into the vicious loop of asking someone (border bureaucrat/consulate, archies, lawyer, etc...), who takes your "pressing question" and finds something pressing to apply to say "no". Believe it or not, that has happened, at places that in actual practice, no one cares, and you can detect till you're blue in the face.
Such was the case for example (don't get "lost in the example"), of someone getting ready to vacation to a mexican beach resort. They did the instinctive understandable thing: asked desk-bound persons. They got a "no". Perhaps because whomever they're asking is morphing shipwreck salvor laws, exporting gold bars laws, raiding the pyramaids, or whatever. Ok, so the person leaves the detector at home in-lieu of the "no". (an understandable reaction). Imagine their surprise, when they show up at their tourist beach destination, and see other plying their luck on the beach w/o a care in the world.
Thus as I say, depending on whom your wife is asking, how she's asking it, and the mood and image-of-your question, will often dictate answers. Hence I would go by what's already written, which you can clearly see in the link. And of course, like ANYWHERE in the world: you use common sense and don't go snooping around obvious historic sensitive monuments.
Heck, even if someone there could cite an ACTUAL LAW that truly said "no metal detecting" (which as you can see from my link, isn't the case), yet even if they *could*, it still doesn't necessarily mean it applies to private property. Ie.: a farmer can do whatever he wants on his own land. That is true of England for instance, where the primary search places are almost exclusively private row-crop-farmer's land with permission. While almost no one in England hunts federal and/or public lands (d/t laws).
So too can the same be true of countries that appear to have "dire sounding laws": Those would, by definition, apply to public lands, and not necessarily private lands with permission.
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. once againg thanks guys and HH
