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Originally Posted by dstehouwer
just got ripperd of at the border at Copan Ruins, Guatemala to Honduras.
Bank closes at 11:30am on saturday, closed on sunday. They managed to slow down the process enough so we had to pay....42USD each.
Took 5 hours in total
Mex-guatemala was 1 hour, no issues.
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Strange story, usually it is pretty easy and yes if the bank is closed, it is closed, but obvious, it was open otherwise you couldn't have paid the $42,00 in Lempiras and probably you added the immigration fees of the 2 countries, photo copies and that is more or less the fee to get into Honduras and yes it takes time on both sides, but that is part of the fun in Central America!
Actually they upgraded all the facilities on the Honduran side and it looks pretty efficient now compared with years ago and immigration is open 24 hours
I crossed at least 100 times @ that border and doesn't take me more as 5 minutes, but then i have Honduran plates!! and a little longer if I passes with USA plates. I thought it was the easiest border crossing of whole Central America
Last edited by scooper; 18 Sep 2011 at 13:12.
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