San Cristobal de las Casas Hostels - Reviews and Rates

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Mexico: 23 Destinations to Spend the Winter Months

San Cristobal de Las Casas
no. 19 of 23 destinations (this is not a ranking)

Mercado Municipal and a Hill of Beans
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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 and a beautiful mix of pine and coniferous trees. The experience in San Cristobal was quite...

what a bus journey........ The first few hours were windy windy windy with a bus driver who was crazy going so fast around some of the bends..... I felt just horrible coupled with a nightmare that the whoel 13 hours would be like that...... luckily it wasn´t and I did manage a few hours sleep...... felt pretty ropey when we arrived and we couldn...

Nice and cool here. 20 cel. at day, 15 at night. So here i recover myself and give some final attention to my beaten car. it needs some care too. its fun to service your car in mexico. the labor is so cheap, that the parts are actually much more expensive. prpbably stay here for 10 days to get things done before heading o guatemala.

Here I am in San Cristobal de las Casas, in the state of Chiapas. It took me a while to get here. I missed original bus from Huatulco because the time on my ticket was different from the time on the board at the bus station. I stupidly believed the time on the board. I was very upset. It was midnight and no hotels had space. One hotel clerk was ...

San Cristobal was next. Only one night here on the way to Palenque but we went to the massive cave near by and to the village of Zinacantan. The cave was really massive, 750m of path into it, it is actually more than 2kms deep. In the afternoon we went to Zinacantan, this was quite a surreal experience. The locals here still speak their native l...

SOOOO- Today with my small group of two others, I traipsed around San Cristobal in search of the three national political parties local headquarters, as well as a second hand store fabled to sell $10 Peso/ $1 dollar threads. In our search under the dry, hot, february sun, we probably asked directions from a good 1/8th of the local population, be...