San Ignacio to Flores Guatemala

To get from San Ignacio to the Guatemala boarder you can take a taxi or you can take the chicken bus to Benaue Vicjo del Carmen and a taxi from there to the boarder. The general feeling was that you don’t save much by taking the bus. The owner of our hotel told us to stand in front and a collective taxi would show up and take us to the boarder for $5 B each. Much less than the $20 B each we would have to pay if we got a taxi by the main square. He was correct.

The Guatemalan family we met on Glovers told us it would take an hour to cross the border. We arrived there and were surrounded by money changers who told us we would have to pay to get into Guatemala and they would only take Guatemalan money- They lied and we did…