Crossing the border Honduras - El Salvador |S6-E58|
From which country are you? - The Netherlands My wife has a cousin who lives in The Netherlands - Ah yes? Yes, he lives in The Netherlands - You don't say, in which place in The Netherlands That I don't know Good morning Internet, it is eight o'clock in the morning and welcome back to the channel Welcome here in Marcala, I think it's called Marcala in Honduras and today I'm going to try to cross the border into El Salvador. I'll tell you more about that later in a bit. I'm just going to pick up Alaska now. I already had a breakfast, I didn't bring my camera because there's no breakfast in this place, so I had to walk into town and I kind of forgot how much attention you draw if you walk around a woman alone in a place like this.. the cat calling is really, really bad and everybody's looking at me. So I feel uncomfortable as is so I didn't feel like walking around with the camera as well that would just make things worse. So anyway I had my breakfast and now I'm picking up Alaska
*inaudible* - Sorry? Hotel Roxana? - That's here But are there conference rooms here? - I don't work here Hahaha, I'm sorry Reception is over there Some people do mistake me for a local.. they thought I worked here Ah, nope.. I don't work here Tip toe, tip toe, tip toe Goodbye! They key? - The key is in the door. Thank you! Bye Okay, which way am I going? It's market day today Very, very busy in town Okay, so here's the thing with the border. The border crossing that I want to take.. oh
just start raining a little bit.. is a very small border but that's basically all I know I tried to find information on whether or not it's open but I couldn't find anything so honestly I just don't know if the border is open or not. If it's.. if it's not open, I'll have to make a massive detour to another border crossing, a bigger one that then hopefully is open But yeah I'm so close to this one that I thought I'm just gonna give it a go. It would be nice to know up front of course.. but hey that's just the way it is Most of the time, I don't know up front anyway what's.. what's going to be happening
Which way? This way So I guess we'll just find out.. won't we. It's about 40 kilometers to the border So in that sense it's not very far but if it's closed then I have to backtrack to another border that will be an extra.. 200 kilometers. So yeah, let's see.. fingers crossed, it's open And actually also.. I hope it's open because I kind of need to make my way to San Salvador Without too many detours because Alaska here finally needs a service Service interval of Alaska is about twice as big as I used to have with the Royal Enfield So that's really good for traveling of course.. I have to do a lot less maintenance Um, so that's why a lot of people have been asking me for a long time Don't you do need to do maintenance? No, actually not. So but now just pass the service interval
mileage and in San Salvador there is a Honda dealer So I'm going there to get the service done so I shouldn't really make too crazy detours anymore Because yeah I've just now already passed the.. the mileage to get service done so.. What a beautiful area, it really.. well, I don't know if you can see it but look at those high mountains. That over there must be another volcano. All of that is El Salvador
Really, really stunning Okay, fingers crossed and that the borders open I mean it's not a punishment to ride here This is it. Yeah, this is it This is the border Good morning! - Good morning Where are you heading? - I'm going to cross to El Salvador Over there, is immigration - I'm going that way? Yes, continue. You can park the motorcycle there. - Okay, yeah Okay, I have good news and bad news It's.. oh
This is the bad news that.. .. The bad news is that um.. When I was waiting in line to get my passport stamped There was a big gust of wind that toppled over Alaska and broke off my left mirror I'll show you later how the mirror looks like but it's broken. And.. .. Where's El Salvador's side. I'm confused Oh, it was huh.. now I'm really confused now. Okay, the good news is the border is open, bad news is Alaska fell over, broke my mirror and my hand guard is bent So now my clutch lever is still functioning but it gets stuck But they only stamped my passport. See that's.. now my lever gets stuck. I'll fix that but um..
I'm confused because I didn't do temporary import.. only passport, so now I'm confused. Let me ask But here is the Honduras side and El Salvador? - No, this is Honduras, El Salvador is further down. One minute Ah, okay I need your passport - Yes.. eh.. where did I put it.. One moment! Many foreigners pass here or not many? - Yes, yes. A few foreigners
From various countries - Ah yes? The majority from Europe right? From Europe, yes? Okay, it's good that I came back because actually I had to do some police thing Um.. but the border the.. El Salvadorian is just.. .. A little further so in that sense I'm okay, I'm supposed to go this way then And then I really have to stop and fix my.. .. lever because this is almost impossible to switch gear now. It's a little bit annoying and I lost my mirror can you believe this! It's so stupid and these mirrors are supposed to.. well not break It just landed really unfortunate on the stones and it just.. it just broke here, right here
So the ram mount stayed and then the mirror broke off. So that's a shame It's always like these stupid little things like this right? You just park Your bike gets blown over by the winds and you break stuff.. anyway. Ah, I think this must be.. .. I don't know. One minute they say Okay, this is the El Salvador side then Hello - That's where the cars go to there. Put it behind the cones there. Over here? Ok. Of course Okay, well first the good news. That was the smoothest border crossing Ever.. I think. It took me about an hour and I was just mainly waiting in line because there were
some other people but it was really, really easy so first I'm gonna say welcome to El Salvador I made it. Um, the bad news is.. again there's some bad news, unfortunately is that there was no customs on the El Salvadorian side and I knew there was no customs on the Honduran.. Honduras side So but I thought, okay there's no problem because I already got temporary import permit and stuff But maybe I should have extracted from that, that on the El Salvador side there was also no customs I don't know I.. I didn't think of that and now basically Alaska is illegal here I said what about my bike and the temporary import and they were like well.. we don't have customs here
So just.. you can just go. So like, yeah but won't I get into trouble when I try to leave El Salvador And they're like yeah.. maybe but just say that you came from a border where there was no customs So yeah.. um, I'll see what I.. what I do with that. Um, I'll investigate a bit more what I can do about that but anyway.. I guess for now I'm here. I am in El Salvador and this is honestly a beautiful part
of the country. It's super mountainous, look at all of this and very green, so yeah.. this is good This is good. Another country and well the fastest border crossing in a very long time So I'll just.. I'll just take that hey? Let's see if I can buy a sim card here
It's one other thing that I need to be doing still and maybe I'll just uh.. do my levers See so.. because this is now loose and bent my clutch lever gets stuck here. So we'll just have to fix that Hello! - Hello! You sell simcards? - Simcard? Claro? Yes.. - I only have Claro. - Yes, that's ok Yes, yes, yes - And it's activated this simcard, or..? Yes, it's activated. You just put it in - Ok, perfect!
Here, this is what you are looking for This is how the company left it to me The company left it to me, its worth 1 dollar. And it's active It's activated. Here you have everything.. the sim You don't want this to see how to.. - How to..
You can.. You speak Spanish well. You understand Spanish - Yes Do you accept money from Honduras or only dollars? - Only dollars. It's one dollar One dollar.. Ok, I'm going to look for one dollar - One dollar.. it's little From which country are you? - The Netherlands My wife has a cousin who loves in The Netherlands - Ah yes? Yes he lives in The Netherlands. - You don't say, in which place in The Netherlands
That I don't know But yes.. she has a cousin. Looks like he lives there, in The Netherlands One dollar - Yes, he has documentation and everything Okay In the nineties he went there To The Netherlands.. he had a wife but it looks like they separated, Yes, they separated - Ah, how sad The Netherlands is beautiful, he says. very beautiful - Yes A developed country - Yes Yes, well developed. Because.. you have years of working a lot. To get development - Yes We are still missing much. - But, step by step. - Step by step Right. Bye, bye.
Alright, I got a sim card and I just quickly adjusted the hand guard so at least for now I can ride normally But um.. it's just a temporarily solution so this is another thing.. .. That needs attention when I do the maintenance or the service in El Salvador. Basically I just need new guards because these ones have been giving me issues since the beginning They're just not a good fit and it was just really hard to find guards that fit.. .. Perfectly because either they hit the windshield, they hit the tank or something else So I settled for these ones but they are also giving me issues so anyway Let's see where I'm going.. that's a good one Anyway first things first, I'm riding to Laguna Alegria which is 122 kilometers and it's now 10:20 so.. plenty of time This way. Longitudinal de norte Yoi, it is hot in between these mountains. Unbelievable. Hot and extremely dry
It always amazes me how places like this.. oh, what's that? Oh, an iguana. Look. Hi there Hi Passing through another small town.. not sure which one But I'm liking all these colorful houses. So cute Alegria, I'm here So I found myself a room, it's actually really decent. Look at that, it's quite nice and big Um, so I'm pretty happy with that. To give you an update on my mirror so this is how it looks like you can see where it broke off. Um and then the ram mount kind of just stayed here inside.. so yeah I'm
afraid that this is beyond saving. Um, so in the next ride when I go to San Salvador, I'm going to see if I can find a solution for my mirror and all the other things. So my main priority is just to get the service for Alaska done. That's actually my main priority here in El Salvador In Honduras, I already looked for a Honda dealer but there's not so many of them there and they only service like small little Hondas. They don't have the 300, so it's really hard to to get any
parts or impossible to get any parts even. Um, but here in El Salvador at least.. well I don't think they have a lot of parts either but they said the Honda dealer said they can service my bike I already asked them. Um, so I guess that should be fine then and yeah.. I just have like a lot of small things that hopefully they can help me out with. Like you know the hand guard which is bent and
I should replace it and the windshield.. you know it has like these.. the windshield is attached with these like little rubber things. I don't know what they're called, when you put the screw in they kind of extend And two of them are kind of ruined. Um, so that means that my windshield is kind of vibrating
a little bit which makes a noise and of course it's not good. I'm going to lose them at some point So I'm going to see if I can find a solution for that and.. .. Oh yeah and the little thing on the backside.. my little reflector that got damaged on the transport, um on one of the boats. No yeah, on when I crossed from Colombia to Panama on the little boat They're damaged. Of course my side stand is.. it's welded. That got damaged on the other boat trip And I think that's the reason actually why Alaska fell over today because the side stand is just not good anymore. But I don't think I'll be able to get a solution for that here
But anyway I'm gonna try and then I'm gonna look for some new tyres because my rear tyre is not so good anymore. There's still quite some profile.. but it just.. there's a lot of damage on the rubber I think I've been riding quite a lot on like rocks and sharp rocks.. so it's a little bit battered and um Yeah I can feel that it's not.. not so good anymore. So um, I'm gonna see if they have some tyres that
fit Alaska and that are.. that are acceptable and then I'm gonna do that as well. So yeah I have a long list of things. Um, it's pretty much the first big service that I'm doing on.. in this season so it's not bad at all and Alaska has received a beating. So yeah she definitely needs some uh.. TLC So yeah that's my main plan for El Salvador to be honest, to get all this stuff sorted so I can continue the ride towards Guatemala which is going to be the next country of course but anyway I'm happy I'm here. It was a beautiful ride today and yeah in the next one you're gonna see all of this work anyway that's a lot of blah blah. That was it for today, I really hope you liked this video
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2022-04-16 03:42
