Boarder Crossing # 1

So back to the rest of the day. Once we got to Chetumal as a group the Australian guy, English guy and Ryan and I decided to continue onward to Belize City. This was another 4 hour ride so we bought our tickets for the next bus. Goodbye Mexico! Ooohhh almost, first we had to go through immigrant on the Mexico side. Needless to say this was not as exciting as we had anticipated. The bus stopped at the board, we all got off and handed our passports to the guard. He blabbered something off in Spanish which was translated by the bus driver and our friends that we need a tourist card. WHAT?? A tourist card we never needed one for Mexico before, I don’t remember having one last time I came here and when were we suppose to get it. So our friends showed us theirs and we realized we did get one at the airport when we arrived but threw it away at our first hostel. Oooppps. Then the guard blabbered something more pretty much saying we had to pay an extra $30 for lost documents to get out of the country. The rest of the ride including the Belize board crossing was fine. When we got off the bus in the city we realized there was also another guy and two girl travelers on our bus. So as a group of 7 we crammed in a van taxi with all our bags, pretty much sitting on top of one another, in a van which Ryan said it needed new shocks. Regardless he was really cool with stories and took us to our hostel on the North side of Belize City, the SEA Breeze Hostel.

Dreadlock man in Belize City

Boarder Crossing # 1

Belize City, Belize