Left
Leon after picking up emails over breakfast. 100km
out to the border on Ruta 12 up to Chinandega
and the Nicaraguan – Honduras border. The
exit from Nic was fast enough but getting into
Honduras was a pain in the ass. We arrived at
12:30 and the Aduana was on lunch and the office
locked. They came back at 1:35pm. They then spent
435 minutes filling out just three forms.
Shit
it’s expensive to get a vehicle in. Weather
you’re entering for weeks or like us just
transiting for an hour ½ it’s going
to cost US$40 per bike/car…yep 40 bucks.
Here’s the breakdown: US$20 for ’running
in’ which effectively means the right to
use the roads.US$10 for the Aduana guy to complete
the 9-A-1 form. It’s going to cost you another
US$7 form the 9-A-1 itself and finally another
US$1.50. We paid US$30 direct to the small bank
desk and got our 9-A-1 form printed with an official
stamp, this also acts as your receipt, which you
need to keep as it’s what you show the police
if you’re stopped. The other US$10 we paid
into the small window for the remainder of the
paperwork
We
needed to get to the El Salvador border by 5pm
because it closed. (The Lying …..Oops sorry…
Lonely Planet again) We made it in 1 hour and
5 minutes only to find the border is open 24/7.
Met a bunch of Mexican guys on BMW’s who’d
been there 5 hours because one of them had lost
his paperwork. Rode into the night and onto San
Miguel. We finally found a hotel at around 8:30pm
