Not Your Average Border Crossing...

With a bit of help from slow moving trucks (Karl!), we made our way to Frontera Corozal the next day, and paid 100 pesos for a boat ride across the river to Tecnica, Guatemala. It was a surprisingly easy crossing given everything we had read about exit fee's/bribes - although we wouldn't officially be in Guatemala until we biked 15 km from tiny Tecnica to Bethel where the Guatemalan customs office was located.Read more