I usually was stopped once each time. I gave less than 10$ in product
bribe
--- In travel-to-honduras.....com, Norman Garner
wrote:
>
> Yes.. How many times did you have to pay off the police along the
way and how much?... I realize that each time might be different...
Norman
>
> kevinkuschel wrote: The drive across
Mexico took 4 to 5 days depending on what we wanted
> to see. We drove from Brownsville to Victoria to Tampico. We stayed
> in Tampico at a hotle/motel San Antonio. We drove to Vera Cruz
> because I wanted to see it. There is a shorter route skipping the
> city. One time we drove to Oxaca, again for turist reasons. We
> crossed into Guetemala at Tapichula. We spent a night there to go
to
> the border in the morning. We once took the pacific route to
> Guatemala City and once took the Central Highlands through
> Chichicastenango. I am fluent in Spanish and my wife is Honduran. I
> think this made it easier. We were warned about bandits. We saw
none
> of it but then we travelled only in the day and on busy roads. We
> entered Honduras through Esquipulas into Nuevo Ocotepeque close to
> Santa Rosa de Copan. We then drove to Danli which is another 8 to
10
> hours. We stayed in hotels with inside garages as we had a car top
> carrier. It was much more fun after the trip was done then during
it.
> I mean the trip was an adventure and during an adventure you may
not
> be able to enjoy it as much as one would like because of stress
etc.
> I am glad I did it but all three of my trips down and one back had
> happy endings even when I had a break down outside of Matamoras in
> the middle of nowhere and ended up being towed by a Federale. I
would
> be happy to answer any questions but it has been a number of years
> since I drove.
>
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