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If you want to travel right now in SA, the best bet is to fly in to a country, rent a moto, and explore that country. Seeing your plans are Dec 2021 > March 2022, that's a LONG way in the future. My understanding is there is extensive public willingness to receive vaccines in many SA countries. Chile I believe has a fairly high level of vaccination already (80% +) with corresponding lower infection rate. I know of countries where international tourism is important do recognice the importance of controlling covid. It will be different, and likely better when you want to travel.
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Land Border Crossings vs Flying
It's important to remember that there are often different rules for land borders and flying into the same country. This applies during the current Covid restrictions but also in more normal times.
There are many online resources that are great for planning, but it's a good idea to double check with the country's own customs/immigration site a few days before you plan to arrive at the border. Things change rapidly and frequently these days. Also, some countries are banning nationals from certain countries and not others, and these restrictions are updated constantly. Vaccine status, nationality, etc. will make everyone's situation unique.
International travel involving multiple land border crossings has always required the long-distance traveller to be flexible and adaptable to the ever changing situations (politics, conflicts, disease, etc). Covid is another factor and will probably be with us for some years.
Santé,
Robert
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USA to Costa Rica border
I am planning to go in December and this is what I have been able to find out. I found the best source of information is the US embassy website for each individual country of interest. They had links to the relevant country website from there where I confirmed the information posted. Nicarauga is the country I am least confident about the accuracy of the information. Any confirmation by someone actually crossing these borders would be nice to hear.
So for a Canadian going to USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Elsalvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicarauga, and Costa Rica I found.... All countries on this list will let you in without a quarantine period if you are fully vaccinated except for Nicarauga where it seems you just need a negative pcr test before entry. Might also need a test to go from Mexico to USA by land border but it wasn't totally clear to me. Probably when US land borders open on Nov8 it will be cleared up.
Costa rica has a website that they require you to fill out a form on before entry https://salud.go.cr
Honduras also has an electronic form to fill out before entry https://prechequeo.inm.gob.hn
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5 Nov 2021
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Originally Posted by MRToba
I am planning to go in December and this is what I have been able to find out. I found the best source of information is the US embassy website for each individual country of interest. They had links to the relevant country website from there where I confirmed the information posted. Nicarauga is the country I am least confident about the accuracy of the information. Any confirmation by someone actually crossing these borders would be nice to hear.
So for a Canadian going to USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Elsalvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicarauga, and Costa Rica I found.... All countries on this list will let you in without a quarantine period if you are fully vaccinated except for Nicarauga where it seems you just need a negative pcr test before entry. Might also need a test to go from Mexico to USA by land border but it wasn't totally clear to me. Probably when US land borders open on Nov8 it will be cleared up.
Costa rica has a website that they require you to fill out a form on before entry https://salud.go.cr
Honduras also has an electronic form to fill out before entry https://prechequeo.inm.gob.hn
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Crossed from Mexico (Baja) to the USA in April and breezed right through. No test, no request for vax, no nothing.
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The whole object of letting non essential people to cross borders is based on the Canada USA objective, every country south is looking at what is going on in northern political agendas.The math and statistics is based on Canada USA Mexico, what are the exceptions who knows because the tourist industries here In SA depend on what other counties deem acceptable > in other words the governments central & South America are relying on first world decisions then they will follow
there are no reliable resources in Latin America to make good logical decisions
try next year forget about this year 70% vac is needed sorry for all you people with ichy feet, It is not going to happen unless you want a adventure that is going to turn into a nightmare wait it out is my advise
I live in Colombia I dont need to see anything more
SA is at my fingertips or throttle
Your prom night will have to wait to experience South America
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I am planning to go in December and this is what I have been able to find out. I found the best source of information is the US embassy website for each individual country of interest. They had links to the relevant country website from there where I confirmed the information posted. Nicarauga is the country I am least confident about the accuracy of the information. Any confirmation by someone actually crossing these borders would be nice to hear.
So for a Canadian going to USA, Mexico, Guatemala, Elsalvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicarauga, and Costa Rica I found.... All countries on this list will let you in without a quarantine period if you are fully vaccinated except for Nicarauga where it seems you just need a negative pcr test before entry. Might also need a test to go from Mexico to USA by land border but it wasn't totally clear to me. Probably when US land borders open on Nov8 it will be cleared up.
Costa rica has a website that they require you to fill out a form on before entry https://salud.go.cr
Honduras also has an electronic form to fill out before entry https://prechequeo.inm.gob.hn
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I rode from Mexico (Baja) in April back into the USA. No test, no vaccine proof, no nothing required. (I'm a US citizen.). But I had a friend fly to the USA from Guatemala in August (he is a Guatemala native) and he only had to have proof of a negative test in the last 72 hours. When I got off the plane in San Francisco, he went straight to a Pharmacy and got the vaccine.
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