Juan, the hotel manager said that the street should be safe but it's better to drive earlier in the day. So we set out to the Mexican - Guatemalan border at 07:30. The drive was pretty good until we reached the state of Tabasco where the streets suddenly started to get super bad, apparently Mexico's way of telling us not to go 😅 The border crossing was pretty confusing because there were so many turns but we managed and then waited to get our exit stamp. Meanwhile Julia checked the main building for canceling the temporary import permit of Ruedi. And she returned with unfortunate news, the cancellation is just possible in a small bank called Banjército which has it's free day on Monday 🙈
But we continued with the exit and drove to the Guatemalan border to import Ruedi already. This process also took more than two hours due to some issues with the system. We spent the time chatting to the border guard who was very nice 🙂
Afterwards we drove just a few hundred metres to a hotel to stay there in town for the night and finish the cancellation tomorrow morning. The hotel was really nice and clean with a rooftop terrace and hammocks. We had some time to work on our luggage, stuff and relax there... Today is also already the halftime of our vacation 😱 It sometimes feels like we just started and other times that we still haven't processed everything we've seen already if that makes sense 😅
In the evening we walked back near the border crossing to exchange our remaining Mexican pesos to Guatemalan Quetzal. Luckily there were some people around and the exchange rate was pretty good. There we also found a small comedor that was open and had some basic meal options. I've had a fried chicken with rice, fried beans, a coleslaw salad and tortillas. All of it was really good, a basic and very satisfying home cooked meal to enjoy 😍 We also tried the local Guatemalan beer, Gallo, which is a decent crisp lager. Afterwards we went back to our nice hotel ☺️Read more
December 12, 2022 in Guatemala ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C