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They hitchhiked from [[Punta Gorda]] to [[Jalacte]] without any real difficulties. The traffic is poor, but they got rides from one village to a next one and reached the destination point in about 3 hours, which is not a bad timing.
The road was completely paved and in great condition. Seems like the works are almost finished.
About 5kms before Jalacte there's customs where the guards first ask where you go. [[User:El Chulito|El Chulito]] and [[User:Shamcore|Shamcore]] asked about a legal way to exit [[Belize]] and enter [[Guatemala]] and got bad news. The only way to leave the country legally is to find an the only police officer in Jalacte who owns an exit stamp. Actually he's only authorized to put exit stamps only in guatemalan passports, but it seems like he can be convinced to help travelers as well.But the only problem is Now it's impossible to enter [[Guatemala]] legally, because there's no any kind of customs or control when entering the country. This means that it's impossible to get an entry stamp and stay in the country on a legal basis.
People say that [[Guatemala]] doesn't really participate in making a legal border crossing point because of a territorial conflict between two countries. Let's hope that in 2017 travelers will be able to cross the border legally. At the moment you can only enter [[Guatemala]] at your own risk, which is never advisable by HitchWiki community.
