Casa Na Bolom San Cristobal de las Casas

... gemacht. Dort angekommen stehen ploetzlich Alexandra und Juan Jose vor mir, die zwei, die ich die ganze Zeit versucht habe zu erreichen. Grosse Ueberraschung - und fuer mich auch eine Erleichterung! Die Beiden hatten grade vor mir ihre Plaetze und sind bis Campeche mitgefahren. 10 Stunden spaeter, gegen 6Uhr, ist der Bus in Palenque angekommen. Von Palenque fueht nurnoch eine kleine Bergpassstrasse rueber nach San Christobal de las Casas, die ganze 5 ...

... Mexican foods I like the best (not a burrito, fajita or enchilada in sight), was take a tour out to the nearby Mayan communities of Chamula and Zinacantan (both of which are anti-Zapatista, by the way, according our guide). Here we saw how the indigenous Mayans have blended elements of their traditional beliefs with the Christian heritage forced on them by the Spaniards.<br><br>The most remarkable demonstration of this was in the ...

... looking girl I was eyeing off on the bus, but we got stuck sitting with this Mexican guy. He could speak pretty good english, and was telling Brendan and myself about Chipas and Mexico in general. Once we got to the river, we were herded onto a boat for the trip up river to the canyon which was going to take about two hours. We had been reading the lonely planet the night before which said that in some spots the canyon was up to 800m high. The canyon was ...

... déjà des groupes pour demain?&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt; Bien sûr, personne ne s´est encoreinscrit. Fichue basse saison! Il me propose de m´envoyer un mail avant 10 heures le lendemain s un groupe se presente. Si je ne reçois rien de lui avant 10h, je peux toujours venir et louer un vélo et faire un tour toute seule. Je suis d&amp;#39;accord avec la proposition ... mais ... &lt;br&gt; soudain, je me rends compte que depuis le debut il s adresse a moi en espagnol. Je comprends ce qu ...

... have been quite happy if Stanley had not come bursting through the jungle to &#8220;rescue&#8221; him and greet him with the now famous &#8220;Dr. Livingstone I presume&#8221;.<br><br>http://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone<br><br>I n the same genre I have to think of Albert Schweitzer (1875 &#8211;1965), the Nobel Peace Prize winner, who pursued a life of intellectual and musical excellence in gentile Europe ...

Und schwuppdiwupp gehoerte 2008 der Vergangenheit an. Puh, was fuer ein Jahr! Ganz schoen turbulent, aber gut. Viel schoenes erlebt, alte Freunde wiedergetroffen, die durchschnittlichen zehn Laender bereist :) und, auch nicht ganz unwichtig, an der Uni einen Riesenschritt weitergekommen. Da 2008 wieder mal so ein Aktionsjahr bei uns beiden gewesen war, tat es uns wohl gut, das Ganze eher gediegen ausklingen zu lassen. So der anfaengliche Plan ...

... the bugger. Next up a caiman (small crocodile), an iguana, some pelicans and many other birds. The canyon is 1000m at its highest point on the tour and at the end there was a hydro electric dam. Non stop money-shots all morning! After that we paid a short visit to the oldest village in Chiapas, like most small villages/towns there is not really much to do or see. (For those Dresdner people reading it was ...

... he has but I don't think it is in me. I had already decided that my sleeping bag was not really getting used enough to warrant the weight it added to my bag. And so I gave it to him to make better use of. I spent time looking around the town. Drank some of the rather nice coffee and looked at the colonial buildings and churches. The pace of life up there in the hills is much slower than the rest of mexico. It ...