Crossing the border from Puerto Barrios in Guatemala to Corinto, Honduras. 17Feb22


The border station is an integrated station between Guatemala and Honduras, this makes it easier.


First stop on the Guatemala side was a document check. The officer radioed the facts of the TVIP to customs and the passport info to Immigration and once they were confirmed he sent me to the COVID check just to the right of the entrance.

I had a COVID screening/test in the town of Puerto Barrios for about 25USD, this is a must do as there are no places to do it near the border. Again, the person at the border checking your inoculation documents, US or Canadian, can not read anything except Spanish. All she looked at was the COVID rapid results and then did a quick temperature check before she hands you a useless slip of paper that no-one else at the crossing will look at.



The immigration/customs flow is a bit different to normal borders. Go to Guatemala immigration, get stamped out, free. Go to the very next line, Honduras immigration (literally 3 meters away, in the same building) present your passport and the online per-screening document on your phone, (this is very impotent to do, a PITA but must be done) pay the 325 Quetsales (all the services will accept Quetsales or Limpera, or of course USD) and then head for the customs building about 150m to the South.

This building has a number of windows with different names and functions, Ask your way around (I did, my Spanish is not so good) The process is a bit long and tedious. Clear Guatemala customs, turn in your TVIP, it takes a while as they will photocopy your documents. The 4 documents they will scan are your drivers license, the bikes registration, the passport data page and the entry stamp page. Free.

Go around to the other side of the building and get your Honduras TVIP, again this takes a while, Photocopying, paper-shuffling and rubber-stamping....Pay 35USD, the officer will look at the bike's VIN and then go back to his cubicle to finish the document. Leaving the station there will be a final customs exit document check (TVIP) and you are done.

No fumigation here.


Total price is: 78USD
Total time is approx 2 hours.

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