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is to have the certificate of ownership (preferably ehowing

you ®8 owner or part owner, or & letter from the owner). They
will. iseue you & poliza provisional, or provisional permit for
the time desired. A tourist card‘is required and serves the
purpose even better than a pase-port. A drivers license end
registration certificate should be earried, Any documents
yielding colorful seals and bold signatures tre impressive -

and the more you cen present, the more: you are vedpected and.
aseisted. A certificate of preesnt helth, police record, and

a half a dozen pess-port-photos wigh help eliminate unnessasary
deleya if involved under exeeptional eireumetances. The inter-
national hdlth certificate ia. required, of course. I would also
investigate Mability ageident insurance for Mexico and Guatemala.

Getting your fiesrms legally into Guetemala ie reaommended.
You should write the Minesterio de Defensa Kacional, Palacio
Nacional, Guatemal City, Guatemala, inmedietely, asking for
a firearms permite In the letter you should explain the quantity
of arma, exmunition, types and purposes for which you wish to
bring them in, It is absolutely necessary to have the permit
before leeving Provo, lest ihe gune be impounded on arrival.
You can get them out of customs sfter you reach Guetemala Jity
but thie I do not recommend except as a last resort. Lot me
also point out the advissbility of checking with the nearest
Guatemalen Consulate about the trip se he will have the latest.
offichl word. It never hurts to get. further esaurances from
@ Guatenalen representative. Any letters signed by these offie~
fale about your trip might prove useful on the customs-inspestor
level. When in Guatemala avail yourself of the services of the
American Bubassy as they ean direct, you to individuels who will
be the moet useful to yous In any event sign in with them and
have ell your mail sent to you in care of them. Air~meil takes
from five to mine days to reach Guetemala Oity from Provoe
Never send correspondence except by air-meil unless the tine.
fastor is unimportant. Pan-American Airways provides reguler |
plane service and is quite reasonable in price for fare. My
telephone-shortwave dalle to Lawrence, Kansas were approximetely |
$8.00. per three minutes.

_ For your initial stay in Guetemala City I would recommend |
the Pan-American Hotel which is conveneintly losated to the |
Palacio Nactonal (two blocks away) where you will be required
to spend considerable time (83 your permits have not already.
been presrranged. It is located on the exclusive Sixth Avene
whieh. de the famed shopping street where nearly all of your. needs
ean be obtained such as film, groceries, extre field equipament,
alothing, ete. Although expensive (75.00-312.00 per dey American
plen) it ie where American needs of hdlth end sanitation are
satisfied, | ‘ -

The moat desirable part. of the year for goileeting in Guat-
emala (at moderate altitudes) is between the months af November
and Aprile .The days are generally comfortably wars: to cool and
are generally supported by brillient sunshine. At one of ay
camps @h-Zttwmel, 12000 feet., the temperature dropped to 12 Pr.
and et other sempe in lower elevations the temperature becane 80
high that I wae foraed to withdraw from the field between the.
‘Hours of 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 pam. A permanent antifreeze in your