Casa Na Bolom San Cristobal de las Casas

... frequency of 180 degree curves because it´s downhill from Oaxaca and then uphill to San Crist; not every person can handle the walk through the bus to the toilet without falling in somebody´s lap.

San Cristobal is hippie heaven, it is full of hippies and probably top 5 in the world on the Hippie shops per capita list. Hippies are friendly so finding a place to sleep wasn´t a problem, but they can at times be too deep and boring. The worst thing is the weather because now ...

... 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 ...

... ce fut une triste journée pour la langue de Shakespeare! <br> Et pourtant, <br> 1. I love English <br> 2. Pas ma faute si la langue de la (peut-être ex) superpuissance de ce monde est l&#39;anglais <br> 3.Les US ne sont pas le seul pays dont la langue officielle est l&#39;anglais, mon cher! <br> 4. Tous les Américains que j&#39;ai rencontrés jusqu&#39;à présent se sont avérés etre des gens très intéressants, de l&#39;esprit ...

... plants is a little shrine containing the most sacred religious objects. Also on the table is a goblet used to drink the famous “posh” – a sugar cane based alcoholic drink. Raul made the point that unfortunately overconsumption of “posh” is a common problem in the town particularly during festivals when everyone is expected to participate by drinking posh in every house that they visit.

It would have been priceless to have actually seen the ...

... unique designs and deep colors we were eager to see the region that produced such beauty.

Not only were the handicrafts beautiful but also the Chiapen indigenous people selling them. They had a distinguished calm look about them that must have been rooted in their Mayan ancestry.

The clincher for me personally was that Chiapas was also one of the three great coffee growing regions of Mexico. Like a wine region, a coffee region is something to behold.
San Cristobal de las Casas, Central Mexico and Gulf Coast, Mexico lobo

... Maedels! Ich verstehe euch!" Oh nein, gleich wieder blamiert! In dem Sinne - Ein frohes neues Jahr euch allen! Nachtrag: San Cristobal liegt uebrigens in Suedmexiko in der Region Chiapas, die zu den aermsten Gegenden des Landes zaehlt. Sehr interessant ist die Bewegung der Zapatistischen Armee der Nationalen Befreiung, kurz der "Zapatista". Es handelt sich dabei um eine indigene Guerillaorganisation, die sich seit dem 1. Januar 1994 unter der ...

... we chat to an english guy, adam who we met on the bus, who is travelling mexico for a few weeks before he heads off back to france to propse to his girlfriend. hew says there is some great bike rides around, and i volunteer that we tag along, just the kind of thing i want to get involved with. the finding of a bike rental place becomes more of a wild goose chase (we later find a guide pinned to the ...

... to walk around and take pictures of things also to try to organise some things. Buy some medicine to replace the stuff I had used or given away out of my first aid kit. Check my flights and accomodation etc. I drank some coffee, went online. And towards the end of the day sat and practised spanish. You would think I would be getting good by now. But not yet. Soon though. I then took the ngiht bus back to Mexico DF.