Good decision to cancel your Mexican papers, as you say you will probably exceed their 6 month validity after taking the time to mozy down through Mexico, then doing GT and BZ.

Yes , the Mexico exit to Belize I was describing is the only big 24 hour road crossing from Quintana Roo state, 20km west of Chetumal .It is at the south end of highway Mex 307 at the town called Subteniente ( "Subte.") Lopez, 4km south of the main highway Mex 186 to Chetumal. . The location on the other side of the border is called Santa Elena Corozal,BZ. This BZ "village" is now turned into a big duty-free shopping zone , access only for foreigners and Belizeans crossing to Mexico.

There are no restrictions on the time between cancelling and getting new tourist cards and import permits to re -enter Mexico. This can be done at Subte.Lopez. There are a few other small border crossings into Guatemala where the Mexican customs personnel are only authorized to check passports and even a few with no official presence at all. If you were to cross at one of those it would ,officially, be necessary to first visit a full-service crossing to do the business , tell them when and wher e you are going to cross and only then could you go. On the GT side you would then have to go to the nearest SAT office to announce your arrival and get "papered".
The crossing east of Tenosique,Tabasco, at El Ceibo has, I believe, now been converted to a full service office with limited hours , and the road into Guatemala has been upgraded into all-weather gravel ( soon to become paved) to El Naranjo,with SAT office . Pavement was laid a few years ago connecting El Naranjo to all points in GT .

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Thanks for the quick reply Sjoerd.

By the way, I have just sent you a letter and a cheque requesting a copy of your hotel guide. I am hoping it gets to you in time to receive the book back before we leave September 28.

Cheers.

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hello there im planing a trip to nz via the normal route iran in about 1 years time! on a handa transalp 650 the ptoblem seems to be that im only 21 at the moment and one of the spesifications for international insurance is that you have to be 25. (at least that is what it sais on here)
i cant find any threads on this,
my question is to. DO YOU NEED IT OR IS THERE AN ALTERNATIVE? or what are my options??
thanks a lot

Giona, try reposting this question under trip planning. The information given in this thread is correct and is aplicable to Mexico and Central America, which I don't think fits in your route from Switzerland to NZ via Iran. Perhaps later in your RTW .

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