Bonampak San Cristobal de las Casas

Dear friends,

I was in Oaxaca on the day 199 years after the priest Hidalgo first preformed the Scream of Dolores in the town Dolores. We, it was six of us in the couchsurfing-room plus our two hosts Gaby and Tim, prepared to scream Viva Mexico! by acquiring mustaches and drink a couple of bottles mescal - the tequila-like drink produced in the state of Oaxaca and famous for it´s worm in the bottle. And that´s how the night went, we went around town sipping mezcal and ...

... Mexique à avoir vécu ici.
Le troisième personnage associé à Chihuahua est Miguel Hidalgo, curé et révolutionnaire qui fut fusillé dans le palais du gouverneur, aujourd'hui orné de magnifiques peintures murales represantant l'histoire du Mexique.

... whatever groceries that they need from the town as the husband does what ever work that he can to provide for his family, its a little rough to see at first but then i realised that you perhaps have to not see it through western eyes and try to take it on face value. I admit impossible but if you try then you can at least you dont have the overwhelming sense of pity and guilt that to be fair they do not want or need. I mean the villages were very clearly poor with the ...

... centre to a hostel near the station in the hope of snaffling some suckers but the place was empty and the owner a complete nutter, who seemed to think we were trouble making party animals - time for him to get a new career!! The Pancho Villa museum, with it's appalling English translations(maybe I should hire myself out to proof read for government bodies e.g. tourist offices, museums, etc as they all seem to need a lot of help!), was a welcome diversion.

... So what popped up was Coke lol lol off i go to the local tienda and purchased 6 2.5 L of Coke and carried them back to the Posada to present them to Lupe. Lupe thought is was very funny as i did i told her it was time for me to go in broken english/spanish. Lupe and Andrea gave me big hugs and their business card what i could understand is they would see me again soon. January 21/2009 I am taking the cadillac of buses to San Miguel De Allende the ETN is the exec class bus ...

... with photographs simply because photography is strictly forbidden.

Therefore a thousand words will have to do but therein lays the problem. I don’t believe I have enough knowledge about this profoundly cultural and religious moment to write a thousands words.

Let me backtrack for a moment to the start of the excursion. To join in all, you have to do is hang around the cathedral square between 09:00 and 9:30 looking for a group that might be going on a ...

... has left it off the well-beaten tourist path in Mexico, which made a visit all the more inviting.

The very sound of it – ‘San Cristobal de Las Casas” and “Chiapas” has a certain ring of mystery about it. Adding to this mystery is a large indigenous population and the special politics of this region.

When it comes to politics nothing stirs the imagination like the name of Che Guevara, the Argentinean, who fought alongside ...

With Bartek visitting us in Mexico we drove overnight to Chihuahua (turnes out to be quite an exhausting trip from Monterrey) to catch the famous Chihuahua-Pacifico train - ChePe. The train crosses almost 700km via Copper Canyon mountain area from the desertly north-central Mexico to the Pacific Coast at the Gulf of California. Some of the views are breathtaking ...

... of the rain. We're finally chased inside by the weather. Then the lake appears. I'ts huge and moody. We finally arrive around 7:15, more than an hour late due to the rain delay at the train station. We're miles from town, in the middle of fields. A sigh of relief, our bus is here. But with the lower elevation, the humidity is smaking us in the face, and steaming my glasses. It's not a long ride to El Fuerte and tired from hanging on the handhold of the train, I ...