Honduras border is open. I recommend el Florido very nice and efficient staff but make sure it’s not a holiday see below.

Went to el Florida border crossing to begin with looked very promising. Everything in one building Guatemala and Honduras so just go from one wicket to the next. Not many people there at 8am when I got there. Processed through both migrations and on to temporary vehicle import. Some sort of problem but the workers seemed very earnest to try and solve it. Apparently the guy who takes the money was not there it’s a holiday Jan 1. One of the three workers spoke some English and I speak some Spanish so the message was communicated. The Guatemalan agent was very helpful getting me photocopies no charge and really seemed like he wanted to help. He said they were asking the boss for some kind of exception. In the end I had to turn back. I offered to leave the money and they could email a receipt but that was a no go. They said I should come back tomorrow but I really wanted to get going so I processed through migration going to Guatemala and went to the aguas caliente border. I laughed when the official used google translate to tell me to use aguas caliente because it said “you go and then you will be in hot water” at first I though I couldn’t go but then it was clear. I had to explain what was so funny. At the AC border I was told to go in line 1 then to line 3 and finally to line 2 after standing in each line for a while. It turned out most of line 2 got the same run around and I think I was the only one not fluent in Spanish. We were all chuckling about it. Processed out of Guatemala smoothly and then the Honduran guy wanted the fee for the stamp but only exact change would do so off to the money changer. I asked the guy sitting in SAT booth what the charge was for importing the Moto but he said no charge which was funny bc that why I couldn’t get through el Florido. Got the Honduran stamp all paid up and on to bike import. Lots of conversations amongst 4 officials finally decided that I would get a temp export from Guatemala. I think this means I will have an easier time returning and then the Honduran guy went to work, as well as the Guatemalan guy at the same time. Honduran guy wanted proof that temp export was done but Guatemalan guy said he needed copies, I’d only been there 1 hr doing nothing. Honduran guy gave him a hard time about that. Ok so copies made and it’s all done and I’m asking if I pay at the bank but Honduras official says I pay him $35USD I got an official receipt and story jives with El florido so I pay him in a mix of lempira and USD bc again needs to be exact change. After that I was on my way. Took about 2hrs at aguas calientes


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