109 - Documents to travel round Central America

109 - Documents to travel round Central America

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Welcome to Mexico

• Passport with a minimum of 12 months of validity (in some cases they ask only 6 months).
• Vaccination card against the yellow fever (they do not ask for it but it is better to have it)
• If you travel with a vehicle the roles must be to your name (or to take a notarial power with the authorization if the holder is another person) and current driver's license. If there is more than one driver for the same vehicle it is convenient that the authorized driver appears in the Permission of Temporary Import.

We recommend to do exact copies of your driving license (you do a good one I scan of both faces, you cut them away, the snags and plasticize it) since in some countries the police are tremendously corrupt (Nicaragua, for example) and sometimes they invent infractions. And if you do not pay a concubine to them they retain the driver's license to you. That collect them.

Next there are all the valuations of entry, exit, visas, use of routes, fumigation and different taxes that they can receive from you when you cross the countries of Central America mochileando or in your vehicle. In almost all the borders you will find intermediaries who can help you to do the entry steps, but they are not necessary. Asking one comes to Prudhoe Bay. To Vladivostok. To Samarkanda. To Finisterre. And finally, to Barcelona.

PANAMA

• Obligatory insurance for vehicles: when you enter the country from Costa Rica you must buy an insurance that costs 15 dollars a month with the company APSA. It is not demanded when you enter ship from Colombia.
• Fumigation of your vehicle in the port of Columbus: 6 dollars
• Valuation of exit of the country: 1 dollar for person on the border with Costa Rica, which is applied only to the foreigners.

COSTA RICA

• Obligatory insurance for vehicles: 12 dollars for three months, it sells on the border.
• Fumigation of your vehicle on the border (attention, possible rip-off): there approached a boy who said that we had to disinfect obligatorily the furgo before happening for customs so that they were giving us the permission of temporary import. We him did not pay attention and in customs they did not demand anything.

NICARAGUA

• There exists a common space of persons' transit between Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala for that they give you an entire visa of 90 days.
• Migration: 2 dollars more 5 dollars of tourist tax for person.
• Obligatory insurance for vehicles: 12 dollars for one month.
• Tourist tax for vehicles: 5 dollars.
• Fumigation of your vehicle on the border: 3,75 dollars.
• In the same large door of exit of the area of border a not identified person wanted to receive a local tax for 1 dollar from us for person. It is possible that it is a question of another local tax to the foreigners' transit. It looked like to us another rip-off, we continue of length.
• Valuation of exit of the country: 2 dollars for person.

HONDURAS

• There exists a common space of persons' transit between Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala for that they give you an entire visa of 90 days. On having entered Honduras only, they sealed the passport to us because we request it. Migration: 3 dollars.
• In customs they receive three different valuations from you. Transport examination: 1,50 dollars; valuation of public routes: 20 dollars; it forms 9A-1 for customs: 135 lempiras. If you have no lempiras it is very probable that they round the price of all the valuations and charge from you between 30 and 50 dollars, your face depends.

EL SALVADOR

• There exists a common space of persons' transit between Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala for that they give you an entire visa of 90 days. On having entered El Salvador only, they sealed the passport to us because we request it.
• Migration and customs: free.
• Fumigation of the vehicle: 3 dollars.

GUATEMALA

• There exists a common space of persons' transit between Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala for that they give you an entire visa of 90 days. Migration: 10 quetzals.
• Fumigation of the vehicle on the border: 42 quetzals. We enter the step of The Hachadura and they neither fumigated us nor charged from us.
• Customs expenses for import of vehicle: 40 quetzals.

BELIZE

The information will be here after July.

MEXICO

• Visa: 262 Mexican weight (that only charge from you when you go so far as to the country for ground) to pay in any bank during your demurrage in the country with a role that they give you. If you request it, the visa is valid even for six months.
• Tax of entry of vehicles: 398 Mexican weight, approximately 29 dollars. There lasts the same as your visa. It is paid in the same customs position and only with card of debit or credit in the Banjército position. In case of having no card you must leave a deposit to customs of Mexico of between 200 and 400 dollars, according to antiquity of the vehicle. The deposit they return it to you when you go out of the country with your vehicle.
• Fumigation of the vehicle: 60 Mexican weight.