On Sunday morning October 18th I presented myself around 7:00 at the border post of Mexico of recent construction. But large disappointment it did not have there electricity, therefore not computer… In Banjercito which delivers ten-year valid temporary importation, the employee agreed to take the “permiso de importacion” of my vehicle by putting two stamps of Concelado and Retornato, by ensuring me that the recording would be carried out as soon as electricity would have returned. On the other hand, at immigration the employee took the entry card and stamped my passport. Phew, the procedure lasted nearly one hour of discussion in Banjercito and immigration. A few kilometers further in the Belize the procedure was promptly dispatched with immigration and customs without visit of my truck with only the statement of the n° VIN in the cabin of my truck. I did not pay anything, free. But alas a pouring rain fell down. Finally at the exit I bought a compulsory insurance for four days at the cost of BZ$20 is US$10.
I thought of visiting on the way Corozal as well as the site of Altun ha, but I gave up wading in mud under cloudburst. I continued to Belize-City where I arrived after lunching around 1 p.m., Mexico time, i.e. 12:00 Central America time. The streets were flooded making the progression slow. I arrived at the edge of the Caribbean Sea on a carpark under water. I warned a police officer who gave me his consent to spend there the night ensuring me that water would have disappeared in two hours and that there would be no tsunami. Entrusting I installed my bivouac.
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It rained all night on Sunday. The carpark was under 3 to 4 cm of water. Yesterday the police officer had told me that the rain was on the coast of the Caribbean but that in the interior and especially in Guatemala, the rain was less abundant. Around 9:00 I decided to leave for Tikal.
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On Monday, October 19th in the rain I left Belize around 12:30 by paying the departure tax of BZ$35, look at the border crossing on Guatemala page.
