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== Border Crossings ==
=== To [[Paraguay ]] ===
User [[User:MOAH|MOAH]] hitchhiked over the Guaíra/Salto del Guaíra border to Paraguay, but as it is a major shopping area for Brazilians to buy cheap Chinese products in the noman's land, you won't get a stamp at the actual border. Instead, you have to go to the office of the Brazilian Policia Federal in Guaíra town, at the roundabout (Address: Praça Castelo Branco, s/n - Centro, Guaíra - PR, 85980-000, Brazil. Telephone: +55 44 3642-9100), which has super irregular opening times. If you press the bell, someone might open the gate and you can start the check-out process. The people here speak good English (!!!). From there it's a short walk to the 3600m bridge crossing from Paraná state to Mato Grosso state, where there's a semi-functional police control from where one can hitch the 12km to the actual Paraguayan border. A sign saying "PY" will do the trick. The noman's land is about 6km long, but you can catch a ride in between with friendly Paraguayans to Salto del Guaíra, where you again have to find some office to get your check-in stamp. This is a tiny shitty office with a well-hidden "Migracion" sign located on Avenida Bernardino Caballero c/ La Paz, Ciudad de Salto del Guairá (Telephone: (595) 046 - 243 536) with a permanently bored employee who will ask you how long you'll stay. Again, there's very irregular opening times, so you might have to stay the night to get your stamp. Don't cross this border on a Sunday. Enjoy the amazing kebab-like streetfood (about €0.90) on the Paraguayan side!
===To/From [[Bolivia]]===
* Cobija – Brasileia
Hitchhiking in Bolivia to the border is quite easy. Just be careful from muddy roads.
If it gets rainy many vehicles will struggle to cross the way.
Hitchhiking in Brazil to the border is a bit more difficult but possible.
If you came from Peru hitchhiking usually takes a very short time.
But if you coming from other places it can be a bit more challenging,
but certainly possible.
The crossing between this two cities is very easy.
They are separated by a river that have many bridge crossings.
You will almost never be asked anything when you cross.
You can go from Brazil to Bolivia with barely anybody talking to you.
As the rumors say, You can spend the day in the other side for the day,
But at the evening legally you should go back to the side where you are stamped.
Usually nobody will check either way.
If you wish to cross the border and get stamped you should search for the Immigration on both side.
There are set in Brazil at -11.029337,-68.740088 (Google Maps) and in Bolivia at -11.026769,-68.752186 (Google Maps).
It’s important to get stamped also in the country that you are leaving in order to avoid fines in case you ever come back. Theoretically if you leave a country without getting stamped they consider it like you never left. And when you wish to enter again the country in the future they will charge you for any other day pass your visa time until the date you re-entered.
The fine in Bolivia for example is 28 Bolivianos (about 4 US Dollars 2022) a day of over staying.
If you came back to the country before your visa expired you shouldn’t have any problem.
* Guaraja-mirim – Guayaramerin
Hitchhiking in Bolivia to the border is quite easy. Just be careful from muddy roads.
If it gets rainy many vehicles will struggle to cross the way.
Hitchhiking in Brazil to the border is a bit more difficult but possible.
You can freely cross between the two cities, Guaraja mirim and Guayaramerin.
The crossing costs 13 Brazilian reals or 20 Bolivian Bolivianos (true for July 2022).
It takes only few short minutes to cross when the boat leaves.
People say that there is some boats on the river that will charge even less.
If you wish to continue your travels legally beyond the city in the other country you crossed to you should get your passport stamped.
For exiting Brazil you should go to the immigration office which is located not so close to the port, In "Justiça Federal Subsecção De Guajará Mirim" (-10.783061,-65.317563 Google maps).
They are open from 8:00 -18:00 but not every day.
I came on a sunday and had to wait for another day. I'm not sure if it's every sunday or that I just had bad luck.
The proccess over there was quite easy.
No papers or documents were asked beside my passport.
In about 15 minutes got my exit stamp and continued.
For entering Brazil I'm assuming you'll have to go the same place, but maybe good you ask the people in the Brazilian port. The taxi drivers usually know.
In Bolivia the immigration office is just where the boat drops you.
They ask for photo copies of your passport and the stamp of leaving Brazil.
They also want your covid vaccination passport two dosages or a negative Covid test from the last days in paper (on your phone does not count).
You need just one of the two. (Again true for July 2022)
There is a photo copy in the coffee place next by. It costs 1 Boliviano per page. But they don't have a printer, in case you want to print some documents from your phone.
I paid a motor taxi to take me to a place with a printer.
Passed them the Covid passport with Bluetooth and came back.
Cost me 11 Bolivianos in total, 10 for the taxi 1 for the paper.
Later they asked me for my phone and where do i go.
Told "La Paz" and my number and got 30 days visa which i can extend in other migration offices when time comes.
* important: it is recommended to check the entering process to Bolivia in the [[Bolivia]] page
===To/From [[Peru]]===
* Puerto Maldonado – Assis Brazil
Hitchhiking in this area towards Brazil is very easy. Many people offer rides and try to help even if you don’t ask.
Of course there is always the chance to fall on a bad spot where nobody stops. But in general it is easy to hitchhike.
The Peruvian side is a classical jungle. Tends to be hot and humid. Many parts of the road is not shaded so you should be prepared in case of a hot day.
Many people come to work in the mines here, which some times brings shady people that came just for finding gold. The locals warn [[User:SonOfaHitch|SonOfaHitch]] from the town Pampas, which is on the way.
Puerto Maldonado is quite a big city, but once you are close to the exist points of it it is quite easy to get rides, But also inside the city sometimes people offer rides if they see you walking.
On the Brazilian side you should know that there is barely any jungle left next to the road.
It is all flat grass. It is also less populated and there are big distances between villages, with some houses along side the road.
The crossing itself is kind of weird. The two cities Iñapari and Asiss are kind of a buffer zone between Peru and Brazil. You can move between those little towns like you are not really crossing a border. In the entrance to both towns from both sides there is immigration police.
But they are not the official Immigration offices.
They might check you to see if you are legal, but also many times they don’t.
The immigration office in Iñapari is open 24 hours they told me, but I wouldn’t recommend coming really late or early. It is located inside the town (-10.955238,-69.577738 Google Maps).
If you don’t manage to find it ask the mototaxis, most of them know where it is. You will probably won’t notice it if you just walk through the town.
The process is kind of normal. They ask you questions if you want to leave or enter Peru, And if you are vaccinated to which they only want to see some papers but barely check them.
Not very friendly and speaks mainly Spanish but in general not too difficult.
On the Brazilian side the immigration office is on the road towards the rest of Brazil.
It is the first window to your left when you try to walk towards Brazil crossing the big gate.
They are open from 8:00 – 12:00 and from 14:00 – 18:00 but maybe better not coming towards the end or begging of shifts.
Also kind of normal crossing process, They were really kind and gave 90 days like nothing.
They might even give you access to Brazil before you officially left Peru.
So if you don’t want to have a fine when you come back don’t forget to visit the Peruvian office first. They didn’t ask for any Covid papers.
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