Thursday, September 20, 2007

Belize/Guatemala Border Crossing

The manual bridge at the border




The guy who checked our visas




The dirt road at the border that took us to Tical
Entering Guatemala was really exciting. I think this country was kind of a mystery to us and I was really looking forward to meeting the artisans and seeing their crafts. This border crossing is the easiest of them all. Even easier than crossing into Mexico from Arizona. haha
It took us no more than a half hour to cross. Everything we needed is in one office here. They did not care about Ivy at all.
Before crossing the manual bridge we had our papers checked by the man above. The road immediately turned into dirt from here. We stopped into town and noticed right away how nice the locals are. Everyone had joyful expressions in this rural border town.
By this time Dorian and I were freaking out. We were in Guatemala in the middle of Central America on a dirt road. We were on our way to the most significant Maya pyramids we intended to visit. We were in amazement that we had made it this far.

2 comments:

Nina Lawrence said...

Dearest Angelina and Dorian,

I am amazed with your blog, you have been doing a great. It is truly a pleasure to receive updates and exciting stories from you. I absolutely loved your pictures too!! You guys rock =P
I miss you very much - God bless you kids.... tell Ivy I said Auf Auf!!
Ciao

Nick said...

Wow.... I am putting in my 2 cents now .... Lets publish this now, I have to say I you two are perfect and the path you are taking is amazing... Please see if you can give me a GPS cord on next entry, I would like to see it on my GPS.. Stay safe and have fun..PS my fav picture is the church with the clouds in the sky...