El Paso is about 70 km from Las Cruces. It's the place where the international airport is and where I arrived in the beginning of September. I hadn't been in El Paso other than one bar one weekend and in a concert other time. El Paso is in Texas and just next to the border of Mexico. The city on the other side of the border is called Juarez. When you cross the border you can really see the difference between these two countries. The traffic changes immediately to "everybody is on their own" as soon as you cross the border. To go to Mexico is very easy, you just basically drive through the border. But to come back...well it's a bit different :P Americans seem to be really paranoid about letting people cross the border. They stop every single car in the border and ask IDs or passports from everybody. Occasionally you can get into an inspection where they search the whole car. So you can imagine that the lines to cross the border to US are huuuge, you have to wait every time something like one hour to get back to El Paso...
Anyway, I really liked Juarez. Although everybody said to me that Juarez isn't real Mexico because it's in the border and that I should go further down to experience the real Mexico. It's good idea to go to Mexico with a Mexican because you never know what's going to happen. So it was good that we did go there with one :D We went there two days, had really nice dinners, went to the market and glow bowling :D First evening we had dinner in a really cool restaurant:
Anyway, I really liked Juarez. Although everybody said to me that Juarez isn't real Mexico because it's in the border and that I should go further down to experience the real Mexico. It's good idea to go to Mexico with a Mexican because you never know what's going to happen. So it was good that we did go there with one :D We went there two days, had really nice dinners, went to the market and glow bowling :D First evening we had dinner in a really cool restaurant:
There were shows, dancing etc with a host, some traditional Mexican things. It was really cool!! And plus the food was excellent, some meat and tortillas
The second night we went to a sea food restaurant. I can't remember how the fish was called but it was really tasty. We also had some oysters:
We were going to vip movie theater to watch a film. The theater was really cool, because the were waiters to get your order inside the theater. So you could just lay back and relax when wiaters bring you sushi, drinks or whatever you want. The chairs were like huge arm chairs where you can lift legs up, really comfortable! Sound nice doesn't it? Well, there's a but...As soon as we got inside the electricity went down from the whole movie theater. They couldn't fix it so we couldn't see the movie.. Instead we went glow bowling which was really fun! :D
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You should try the Russian border from Finland. You are very lucky if you can get through it in 4 hours on normal weekend day.
They also inspect your car always.
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