So you did cross at Corinto into Honduras from the Entre Rios way from Pto Barrios and CA9. Solves that question. And this also means a new development as the GT side had absolutely no GT officials as I came out thru there this April'08,Good to know.
Now for the other crossing , you still leave me wondering where it was- I know absolutely nothing about the maps you consulted so maybe they totally screwed things up. Did you come out of Belize from Cayo/San Ignacio then west 15km to the GT Border? There is no way that any map should be giving any other name than Melchor de Mencos for the town on the Guatemala side of that border.
Then I decided to finally see what this googlemap thing had on line so I got around to chasing that lead - and lo! - there at the BZ/GT border crossing of the Western Highway is a clutter of names including Melchor de Mencos - THE big town in Guatemala which everybody refers to for this border, and to its right "Los Achiotes" - Never heard of it in all the times I have used that very crossing.Must be the goat farmer's place at the border post. Just goes to show that google is not quite as useful as is assumed.
Checking the stamps in my passport and they reveal only the names ,as noted earlier, of Melchor de Mencos and Corinto. This raises the question of how trustrworthy the info on the google map source is if they cannot be bothered to supply travellers with accurate data. Trust your own eyes to read the names of towns on site, don't blindly assume every map is dead accurate in giving this kind of stuff.I have seen locally an example of somebody who got a googlemap routing suggestion printed out to the company I work for.Problem was, the google service totally picked a different address, a family with a similar last name , but kilometers off target.
Last edited by Sjoerd Bakker; 15 Dec 2008 at 18:37.
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