Time to leave Mexico!
Edwin and I packed our things and set off at midday to Palenque town to catch our cheap 60 peso bus that took us on the road for 3 hours towards the border. The journey at first was very cramped with 15 people in a van that’s only suppose to have 9 or 10, it was such a relief when some of the passengers hopped out along the way because sitting on the very edge of the seat was not comfortable at all.
We then had to get a taxi to the river boarder crossing Crusera Corazol to Frontira Corazol on the Guatemalan side by a 30 minute boat ride costing an expensive 150 pesos.
On the Mexican side I was ripped off because I again had to pay 262 pesos to leave the country… they put another stamp in my passport but I found out later that this wasn’t nessesary and I could have just crossed the boarder into Guatemala. Damn corruption!
Guatemala!
Another country, another currency.
This always gets me, having to change to another currency and figure out the conversion so you don’t get ripped off. Which is exactly what happened when buying some bus tickets from the boarder to Flores… thankfully I managed (and with Edwins Spanish) to sort out some confusion with incorrect change.
We took another 3 hour bus journey where we met a German/Swedish couple and enjoyed the bumpy dirt road to our first destination of Flores.
Arriving at the hostel by taxi Edwin and I found a cheap room costing a nice sounding $5 each a night, sleeping on comfy double beds. The tacos I ate for dinner too where much better than Mexican standards, cheaper too.
Didn’t do much else for the evening but I like this place.
The cramped bus
The boats to the Guatemalan Border
On the boat (Edwin and I)
Guatemala!
Out of Mexico, another country another Chapter
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