Puerto Barrios, Guatemala Travel Blogs

nr Puerto Barrios
Sep 24, 2006

Travel up to Flores.

Guatemala day 1
Jun 5, 2007

Dr T surfed the net, last night, while I chatted. No success on 'what to do in Puerto Barrios'. Livingston is a fisher village, 10 minutes boat ride from here, which looks very nice. We stopped by yesterday on our way here. Everybody got out but us. We are ...

We are in Guatemala!
Jun 4, 2007 (9 photos)

... a little breakkie and: the owners of the B&B take us to the ferry! We got on our fancy yacht and after an hour: Guatemala. Luckily Hubby is a bit better informed then me: the immigration office is NOT at the harbor. If you do not sign in, you are ...

Back to Puerto Barrios by ferry
Jun 6, 2007

For the night

Borders, Buses and Boats
Jun 13, 2009 (9 photos)

... best to have a conversation with (the search got everyone talking to each other) starting saying Guatemala, Guatemala! We had told him we were heading to Puerto Barrios, he whistled at the driver, then yelled to him we were going to Guatemala. The driver ...

Guatemala (no log, i just wanted to map it)
Feb 20, 2007

I just wanted this log to pin the location on the map

Farewell Guatemala
Dec 4, 2006 (10 photos)

... tiny town accessible only by boat. Not a great deal here, though certainly prettier and friendly than the dodgy town of Porto Barrios, where I spent the night in order to get to Belize. Would have loved another week or two in Guate, guess I'll just ...

Into Honduras
Apr 1, 2008

From Livingston, we took a 7:30AM  lancha (colectivo mini ferry) to Puerto Barrios for 30Q each, or $4. Itīs a beautiful ride! We were the only tourists in the lancha, which was a nice change...

New carburetor.
May 10, 2007 (2 photos)

... , we caution anyone from buying them if not for the sheer garbage quality. We lounged around the entire afternoon and evening in Puerto Barrios as there was not much else to do. Bedtime was early as we were expecting to get up early the next morning to hit ...

If this boat is rockin'....
May 8, 2007 (13 photos)

... toward the border at Honduras. We had made arrangements to give Jeff a one-way ride to the propane fill station on our way to Puerto Barrios. After breakfast and cleaning up 'Nilla a little bit, we were ready to hit the road at 7:45am. Not bad after a ...

Leaving Guatemala
Feb 28, 2007

Puerto Barrios

Boat down Rio Doce voted down
Jan 26, 2002

Because of a very late start the planned boat trip down the Rio Doolce to Livingston a village only accessible by water was voted down by the group anxious to get to the swimming pool at our next camping stop. I would have preferred seeing Livinston ...

The Carribean, Guatemala-style
Mar 23, 2007 (10 photos)

... spent all day on a non air-con bus on dusty roads and are shattered by the time we arrive in tropical Puerto Barrios on the north coast of Guatemala. It is a typical port town, trucks thundering past at all hours, everyone seems in a hurry to get somewhere ...

The house is FINISHED!
Jan 18, 2008 (2 photos)

I just received pictures of the houses that we built in Guatemala and it's amazing!!  Sandra and her family are now living in their home that we helped to build.  It's so great to see a picture of them standing beside and in their new home.  ...

Buses, boats, and new stamps
Sep 23, 2006

... boat from Placencia to Independence, then a 2-hour bus ride to Punta Gorda, then another long boat ride over the Carribean to Puerto Barrios. This is a dirty, bustling town, but we will only be here for a few hours. Tomorrow morning we will rise early and ...

Never Again.
Aug 29, 2006

Never again will I ever step foot in Puerto Barrios.. Place was a straight up slum! After walking around, getting lost for about an hour, I finally found the bus station, and booked an overnight bus back into Guatemala City.. So not having to leave until ...

Overpriced hotel
Aug 16, 2007

... 6 AM on this trip than ever before on a vacation. I was at the Livingston boat dock at 6:00 AM to buy my ticket to Puerto Barrios. The town is hot and sticky and about a 45 minute boat ride from Livingston. I wanted to catch the 7:30 AM bus to Guatemala ...

Puerto Barrios- Spanish and English
Jan 4, 2007

Puerto Barrios is not much more than a sailor's port of call, and not much of that. There’s a newer port down the road, so PB is merely a minor crossroads growing more minor every day.  There are blacks here, in addition to the Latino and Mayan ...

Border Crossing into Guatemala
Feb 23, 1998 (1 photos)

Our first attempt to find a boat to get us across the border ended in failure. Hit Omoa but there were no boats going to Livingstone. So we over nighted in Omoa. Where the highlights were a lunch of BBQ fish with banana chips, dinner of fish kebabs by ...

a Puerto Barrios
May 24, 2008 (2 photos)

de Puerto Barrios ha lanchas rapidas para Belize (pequeno mas belo pais), dura cerca de uma hora . Passei a noite la. No caminho a aduana. O oficial de honduras nao estava ja fazia duas horas... bem , passei para a Guatemala meio informalmente . Do lado ...

A Complicated Route
Oct 2, 2009 (1 photos)

... a regular bus.  The following series of map pins describes our route between the two. Punta Gorda, Belize to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala:  By boat Puerto Barrios, Guatemala to the Guatemala/Honduras border:  By minibus/collectivo.  We ...

Arrive in Guatemala (again)
Dec 6, 2007

We took the boat from Punta Gorda to Puerto Barrios in the morning and then caught a bus.

Puerto Barrios
Aug 15, 2008

Unexciting town that only serves as transit stop. No story about this place.