Yes you can go to Belize for a few days.
Mexico will now let you retain your TVIP so that saves you and them the bother of cancelling and refunding the deposit , only to have to take out a new one and deposit > Got that ?
You will however be asked to cancel your Tourist Card. Then when you return to Mexico you need to apply for and pay for a new tourist card . This is a regrettable expense, but not the end of the trip deal breaker.
And mikey, in the case of your potential plan to travel to South America before returning to Mexico it makes no sense to even think about keeping your TVIP going. The helpful lady was right. Would you actually get back to Mexico and exit to the USA before the six months expires ? Unlikely. You would just be asking for problems of having an expired TVIP and that means also that you would have THROWN AWAY YOUR SECURITY DEPOSIT.
There are indeed several border crosings into Guatemala with no Banjercito service , even with no Migracion.
If you cross those you are supposed to have your papers already in order by visiting one of the other points where those services are available .
or if you cross without that precaution you should limit yourself to a short exploratory trip but not carry on deep across Guatemala
Once you hit the Belize side of the border you MUST buy their liability insurance for bikes , they do check at roadside.Reasonable price, get the week, it costs no more than it does for three days.
You wil not regret it, once you start exploring the back roads you will find a week is used up pretty quick .Take the long ride down to Punta Gorda and back, out to Cayo, the ruins of Xunantunich and or Caracol, a ride up through the modern Spanish Lookout Mennonite colony and by contrast the other much more conservative old fashioned horse-and buggy colony around Shipyard.
Take a short trip through Belize City, it can look a bit of a dump but is interesting because of just that.
Last edited by Sjoerd Bakker; 10 Nov 2012 at 23:49.
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