sorry, only google translate
After the longest (but very comfortable, which should still change …) bus ride of barely 5 hours, we arrived at our last destination in Mexico, Bacalar. Bacalar is known for the Laguna Bacalar, also known as “Lagoon of the 7 Colors”. But later on, we were picked up by our supernetten AirBnB Hosts Georgina (Mexican) and Andy (English) from the bus and transferred to their super nice house. Quasi inclusive were 4 chickens, 3 ducks, a Mexican squirrel and 4 cats, 3 of them only 6 weeks old 🙂
On the first day we chatted a little with our hosts, before we just relaxed with an ice-coffee in the lagoon, let the sun burn on the fur and after a refreshing bath in a hammock.
But now more to the lagoon. It is so called because the water here actually occurs in the most diverse blue tones. This is due to the different deep but incredibly clear water, on the other by several shallows, bays and cenotes. There are cenotes in the middle of the lagoon. The biggest difference is the water depth from 1.5m to 100m. Of course, we took a small chartered boat on the second day and we also swam in the cenote!
But before we did the boatstour on the second day, something happened, which has not yet happened to us. Tobi just came out of the water when a former fellow student from the bachelor came by chance. The world is just smaller than you think. With him, his girlfriend and his ride from Vancouver we chartered the boat.
In the evening, we informed ourselves about our planned transit through Belize to Guatemala and were a little bit surprised. Because when we wanted to book the bus, we were supposed to have 500 pesos (~ 25 €) for departure from Mexico, as well as 20 USD for entry and exit from Belize. I beg your pardon??? Georgina could not believe it and offered to smuggle us against the border. Sound funny and so we agreed.
Ok, fun aside, of course this should not be an illegal border crossing. Georgina simply said that the departure fee from Mexico was illegal and that she took us around the “free-zone” between Mexico and Belize around this fraud. And so it was then, we drove into the free zone, and actually the station stationed there wanted us also the 500 pesos abluchsen. But not with Georgina, after an approximately 20-minute discussion with the official and additionally his manageress, we arrived without payment. No idea how she did it, but it worked. And we did not have to pay the “entrance tax” to Belize, just the departure. But next time more 🙂