Crossing the border from Mexico to Guatemala
On Day 7 of our GAP tour - Jan. 25 -we crossed the border on foot at La Mesilla/Ciudad Cuauhtemoc. Incredible experience! Went through the Mexican border then into 4 taxis which wove in and out on dirt roads behind the market stalls -and then there we were changing our money and loading our packs on and then we hiked! Ducked under a wooden road sign and poof -we were in Guatemala! Hiked way up hill about 15 minutes past stall after stall of produce and handicrafts and really anything you could imagine! Then we reached the Chicken Bus! More on that later.
The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more 
