San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico Travel Blogs

A grand finale to Mexico
Oct 9, 2006 (9 photos)

... use plants and animals for cures and it showed the traditional birthing practices, including a very graphic movie on birthing. Very interesting. San Cristobal is a very cool and beautiful town, and the locals were nice and helpful. Next stop, Guatemala!!!!

On the hunt for Amber
Sep 3, 2008 (5 photos)

... you're getting desensitised when you sit in a canoe and say "oh, another crocodile. Meh". We couldnt resist staying in San Cristobal another night, so we spent the third day exploring the town properly, taking in lots of museums on Mayan medicine, ...

Viva Zapatista
May 12, 2006 (9 photos)

We are currently in San Cristobal de las Casas, in Chiapas. It is an interesting time to be here. Last week, there was a protest over the expulsion of flower vendors in a town near Mexico City, Atenco. The Zapatista (leader? spokesman?) Subcommandante ...

Colonial Mexico at its best
Sep 12, 2007 (37 photos)

... to be aware of it and really want to make things change. At this point, my time is counted as I need to be in Yucatan in a few days.  After 3 days in San Cristobal de las Casas, I am now heading east to Ocosingo.  Talk to you later Eric

Zapatista Territory
Jul 19, 2006 (8 photos)

... water and freezing outside! We couldn't check-in until 3pm, very odd, so we wandered off into town to see the sights. San Cristobal was a pretty cool little colonial town. Built in 1528 and its cathedrals are still standing today. Not that we could see ...

This country is big!
Jun 9, 2003 (36 photos)

... England? Didn't do much writing lately. Had a bit of a difficult week. First the crazy bus transfer from Ometepe, Nicaragua to San Christobal de las casas, Mexico. Two days and a half and two nights (one in a bus) it took me to go to Mexico. Four borders ...

San Cristobal de las Casas
Sep 18, 2006 (7 photos)

Alex: San Cristobal de las Casas is a very pretty town with lots of nice churches, pretty streets and plazas. It is also home to lots of indigenous people who still wear their traditional dress (or at least the women) which is interesting to see, each ...

San Cristobal de las Casas
Sep 19, 2006

Back to San Cristobal at the end of the day.

San Cristobal de las Casas
Feb 13, 2004 (2 photos)

We survived our 12 hour, overnight journey to San Cristobal de las Casas with neither of us managing to get much sleep. Arriving at 6.30am, we stumbled, like a couple of zombies, into the town where we found our hotel - La Noria. Unfortunately the front ...

Dia de los Muertos y mucho mas
Nov 5, 2007 (20 photos)

... are from the ancient civilizations of the Mayans and other indigenous peoples. There is plenty of decoration and celebrating in San Cristobal for Day of the Dead, but most people choose to visit the indigenous villages on the outskirts in order to ...

I Just Canīt Get Enough: San Cristobal
Aug 14, 2007 (6 photos)

... Mexican music and then serenaded us with singing along to all the words..again, on repeat...It was so adorable! The distance from P.E. to San Cristobal is only 645 km, but the road is just like the road to Tofino!! Super windy with lots of hills as ...

On the Road Once More
Feb 16, 2008

... ready for action. After twelve hours on an OCC first class bus with erratic air-conditioning we have arrived in San Cristobal de las Casas, the old capital of the state of Chiapas which borders Oaxaca (a border at which an earthquake was apparently felt ...

San Cristobal de las Casas
Dec 24, 2008 (4 photos)

San Christobal de las Casas hit the world headlines in 1994 when it was taken over by the revolutionary Zapatista movement, who held the city for thirty hours. It's mellow now, but recent history and the fact that it's now very much a backpacker's haunt ...

Grungy Euro Backpackers' Mecca
Jul 21, 2004 (6 photos)

Could there be any more grungy Euro backpackers' here? We arrived in San Cristobal de Las Casas in Chiapas Monday morning after an almost 10 hour night bus ride from Veracruz. The ride woud not have been bad, had it not been for the air conditioning ...

Hiding out from Hurrican Dean
Aug 19, 2007 (13 photos)

I was so bummed out to be so far away from where I want to be, and with the thought of no more Caribbean. But now we are here and it`s a nice town, and we have English travel buddies and bumped into a Slovenian couple that we get along well with, so ...

The highlands of Chiapas
Dec 21, 2007 (12 photos)

San Cristobal de las Casas is positioned in the highlands of Chiapas.  It is a community that is very colorful and is surrounded by lush, green mountains.  Its elevation reaches approximately 2100 m (6890 ft) above sea level. San Cristobal is ...

Moving on
Nov 20, 2008

So I've decided to move my blog from here to another website to avoid the advertisements and fact that no one can comment unless they're a member. I liked the maps and fancy stuff on this wesite but I like hearing from friends and family more... so check ...

Chiapas At Last
May 2, 2006

... . I want to spend more time there- this trip it was really just a passing glance. The indigenous populations in Guatemala and Southern Mexico are very very strong and the culture is a main part of what makes up this part of the world. I have seen more ...

San Cristobal de las Casas
Dec 19, 2008 (5 photos)

Z Palenque jedu se svymi kamarady do San Cristobal de las Casas, coz je mesto v mexickem state Chiapas, ktere je nejchudsi oblasti v Mexiku. Mesto je to velmi krasne s hezkymi kostely a prijemnou atmosferou. Odpoledne si prochazime mesto, kupujeme par ...

San Cristobal de Las Casa
Apr 25, 2008 (3 photos)

 

Dice Mission to Cancun
Dec 23, 2007

... post might be a bit disjointed and rambling.  Oh and probably full of spelling errors as well! So i find myself in San Cristobal at the moment, a very quaint little town about half way in between the west coast and the east coast.  Previously ...

City of colour
Apr 29, 2009

... last month it was a real treat to just sit back and to be told where we were going. So arriving in San Cristobal de las Casas was a real treat, even in the pouring rain whilst searching a hostel that had been recommended to us and getting likely soaked i ...

Flowery Villages and Crispy Canyons
May 4, 2006

... yesterday on a tour to a really beautiful canyon nearby. It was a gorgeous busride to get there and it was really nice and sunny. San Cristobal is quite cold right now which is NOT what Iīve been used to the month or so. It is a refreshing change, but ...

San Cristobal
May 25, 2008 (21 photos)

Stormingly good city.

San Cristobal - Mountain thrills and chills
Oct 1, 2008

... 20C during the day here it's a far cry from what we have been used to for the last three weeks. However, despite my cold, San Cristobal has been a real pleasure to visit and be part of. It's a very colonial looking town with a great look about it. It's ...

San Cristobal de la Casas- Flooding Streets
Jun 27, 2009 (32 photos)

San Cristobal is the last main stop in Mexico before we hit the boarder of Guatemala. The City lies at 2100 meters above sea level in some of the most beautiful mountain ranges in Mexico. The countryside really has a feel of Oregon, with green undergrowth ...

A Grand Canyon
Jul 16, 2007 (15 photos)

... from amsterdam and watch a very good spanish film called Volverize i think. Was up early this mornin and went on a tour of the San Cristobal canyon which was interesting but not worth the time&money as we also went to a crapish town where i'd to buy ...

Wonderful old colonial city
Mar 15, 2007 (3 photos)

I made it to San Cristobal yesterday, a wonderful old colonial city high up in the pine-covered mountains.  I spent 2 days here soaking up the atmosphere, a much more touristy place than Comitan. The state of Chiapas is famous for its amber ...

Another small Mexican town
Jan 21, 2008

San Cristobal, had awesome fun here.

why when bugs bite do they always go for the ankle
Aug 30, 2009 (5 photos)

... him a kiss, lovely trashy pink lipstick too!!! We continued on into the town to find our bearings and see what was about.  San Cristobal, like all the other towns weīve been into, has a zocalo at the centre and all the other streets kinda feed from ...