Posts Tagged With "Border Crossings"
We spent about 3 hours at the border between Honduras and Nicaragua, but since we got stuck there over lunch time, we were sitting doing nothing from noon till 1pm. We proceeded to the nearby town of Esteli where we stopped for the night. We didn’t clue into the fact that we were crossing the […]
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Today we crossed over from Guatamala to Honduras. What an ordeal! And what a ton of money! We do not plan to spend any real time in Honduras, as we would rather get to Costa Rica and spend a bunch of time hanging out there. The border crossing was a bit of a zoo. After […]
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It took about 2.5 hours to cross the Belize border. All the border officials were really friendly, and it was great to hear English for the first time in over a month. Vehicle insurance is mandatory in Belize, and we were easily able to purchase the necessary insurance at the border. We headed south and […]
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We crossed into Guatemala this morning after going to see 1,000ft falls this morning in Belize (not all that exciting, as the fog set in just as we arrived and it was hard to see the water!). The border crossing was a breeze, and before we knew it, we were heading into the Guatemalan interior. […]
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Well, we got packed up and proceeded to the Southern Mexican border to cross over into Belize. The usual confusion with the language complicated matters again, and R&R had to pay more money for obtaining a multiple entry visa which they will need on their way back. The trouble with these ‘officials’ is that whatever […]
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This crossing from USA to Tijuana was quite simple, though it caught us a bit by surprise. After all the messing about, the whole process took us about 2 hours. From San Diego on the I-5 South, you start seeing border signs about 2 miles prior. All of a sudden, the border appears. Expecting to […]
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Eager to reach Bolivia, we zipped past Lake Titicaca and dashed for the Bolivia border. But, we were stopped one last time by the Peruvian police, and also had to navigate our way through a protest,
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A mid-morning border crossing from Ecuador to Peru proved to be very stress-free and relatively quick. We spent about 45 minutes standing around waiting for the boss to arrive to sign our Peru vehicle importation permit.
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