20/21/22/ Belize - San Pedro / Caye Caulker / San Ignacio
Du 8 au 23 Mai 2017 COROZAL In order to get to Belize, we needed to travel to the border town of Chetumal on the Mexican side where we spent the night in Downtown Hostel. There, we met a very nice Bostonion called Mike who gave us some advice about crossing the border and a scam the guards try to pull to make you pay 500 pesos tourist tax! Pour arriver au Belize, il fallait nous rendre à la ville frontalière de Chetumal du côté mexicain où nous avons passé la nuit au Downtown Hostel. Là, nous avons rencontré un américain de Boston, Mike, qui nous a donné des conseils pour le passage de la frontière et mis en garde sur certains gardes qui essaient de vous faire payer 2 fois la taxe de séjour de 500 pesos! It is true that you have to pay a tourist tax of 500 pesos when you leave Mexico - however, what many people don't know is that if you fly in or out of Mexico and then leave over a land border, the tax is often included in the price of the flight ticket ...