Is it an island?

The taxi driver from Pune told me it would be best to leave early because of the Ganpati Visarjan and that traffic might get crazy in Mumbai. Finally, the biggest traffic jam was near home, and we were probably stuck for 5 minutes. It turned out that I had never ever seen the streets of Mumbai with so little traffic. I reached well before time, and that may have been a blessing, because in Mumbai Airport I was asked a thousand times where my Guatemala visa was and made to wait until they photocopied my passport, the Spanish school registration, and the print I had of the law that states that Indians can indeed receive a visa on arrival in Guatemala. I had to go through this at the check-in counter, and then again experienced the same ordeal at Immigrations.

At the check-in counter, the officer asked me if Guatemala was in Europe. At immigrations, I was asked if it was an island.

After the Indian immigrations, it was all smooth sailing.

In Guatemala, the immigration officers sang to me “No problem! Welcome to Guatemala!”

I already love this country.