Since 2008 the border entry from Subteniente Lopez, QR, Mexico into Belize has been changed a considerable bit .
The approach road is now a wide expressway which exits west off the highway to the old bridge before you hit Subte Lopez village , and it goes through a modern and spacious Mexican customs facility . No longer is it a hectic bit of shopping street and a crowd of vendors walking about . There is a large drive-through arch for "fumigacion " of vehicles . (Formerly Mexican fumigacion was done at roadside a few km north ,almost at the junction with Mex 186).The old downtown border bridge crossing is best left to the pedestrians and the folk with an interest in going through the big "Duty Free Zone " in Belize .
From the new Mexican customs facilities the road loops south with concrete walls at the sides as it crosses the Rio Hondo floodplain and then there is a traffic circle where you exit south into the Belize border facilities yard which remains mostly unchanged . Its next exit gets you to the Duty Free Zone .
Belize immigration and customs are dealt with in a common big building , while outside the entering and departing car- and pedestrian-traffic is segregated each to a side .
Belize may require its "Fumigation" spray of the vehicle and it is done at the new Mexican facilities of Jalacte for ALL traffic .So even if you cross at the old bridge you will be directed to go back the 500m to the exit of the Mexican NEW terminal .You need have no contact with Mexican customs there , just get the bike sprayed ,pay and return to BZ customs with your Receipt for the spray.
The Belize Insurance Corporation sells the requisite BZ insurance in a tidy white building ,clearly signed outside the south exit of the customs plaza , not inside the main shed .
The other BZ border crossing is into Guatemala at Benque Viejo /Melchor de Mencos . It is not a big facility and has a straightforward arrangement with a main customs building and a smaller separated white building handling insurance standing off by itself on east side of the parking area .

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As for my impressions of Belize , I rather enjoy travelling around the small country with no great interest in doing the presumably usual tourist things . I make a point of snooping around in the backroads ,as through the Shipyard and Spanish Lookout regions . These are big Mennonite colonies with strikingly different ways of living . The shipyard area is at the southwest side of Orange Walk and is occupied by the more regressive persuasion who insist on using horses' power as much as possible .They also employ some big diesel machinery but appear to eschew automobile ownership . The white-limestone dirt roads are fine in the dry season but clearly show the results of wet wet season bogs and petrified deep ruts .
The Spanish Lookout Colony is a totally different approach with modern agricultural machinery and commerce being prevalent . Many of the gridded roads are being paved with blacktop . This colony has relatively big field crop farms ,dairy, beef and poultry operations which supply most of the food for the whole country . All the modern farm equipment and commercial activity would not look out of place in Canada or the US . Indeed many of them have dual citizenship and they migrate and interchange to other countries with with similar colonies ,Mexico, Bolivia, Paraguay ...
These colonies are still expanding and ,sadly , there is still the attitude that the jungles surrounding them are to be chopped clear for more farms .
The Hummingbird Highway from Belmopan to Dangriga is a gem ;it winds though some jungle covered mountains . Blue Hole National Park , orange groves . Placencia is a bit of a wealthy gringo magnet on a sandspit dangling off the coast ,but fine for a visit . Punta Gorda at the far south is another mix of Garifuna-Euro-and- whatever came through .

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