Hotel Casavieja San Cristobal de las Casas

Bored sitting here waiting for my flight to Seoul (scheduled to leave @ 0050 hrs.). Catching up on some emails & research in the meantime. Still have a few more calls to make before the flight; will check in once I arrive in Seoul as it may be last contact 'til the return trip (not sure how technologically savvy our base camp will be). Happy holiday, everyone! Sent from my BlackBerry Tour

So true to form.<br><br>I've been running around this last week trying to complete everything I put on my 'Must-Do' list; and with only two days left, I'm feeling fairly confident that, yes, I will complete all tasks as assigned! However, I do have one (minor) concern at this point: I left getting my visa for entry into Indonesia 'til the last minute! Although, when I ...

... Mandela was held 12/5-12/9<br>8) Return to US 12/10<br><br>Of course, not having been in the country, don't know how much I'll get done and how much I'll not have time for. From what I gather, it's a country not unlike America (for the middle and upper classes anyway)--gleaming malls, affluent suburbs, internet and ATMs. And then there's the needs to be improved bit: limited public transport, destitute ...

... only go in and out of Hantsport with the tide and can only stay there while the tide is high. So the next morning, about 11am, we literally went in with the tide. There were little markers that the pilot used to check we weren&#8217;t beating the tide, like a rock on the beach which, as long as the water had reached it, we were OK. They started loading the gypsum almost before we had tied up. This took about 7 hours and as soon as the tide turned we headed ...

... t I take out my sleeping bag do you ask? Too cold to walk across the room to unfold it...thats how cold it was. So for all of you thinking Mexico is only hot desert and humid mountain ranges come to San Cristobal. <br>I spent today walking around the town and getting my bus ticket for tomorrow to Guatemala City. So far this place is the most indigenous place I have been which comes as no surprise as it is ...

... in Paris but caught on, two hours later. Unknown to me they don't put your check bagages on your new flight, so had to wait in Madrid for four hours. Good note it is a really nice day in Madrid, so enjoyed that. i must say that the French and the Spanish are really friendly even though I am butchering their language

... life - a low point - that he left the United States and moved to Mexico to once again pursue his passion for the Mayan civilization.<br><br>It was the jungle dwelling Lacandon, unique among the Maya because they had not fallen to the Spanish conquest, which caused the paths of Gertrude Duby and Frans Blom to cross. This led to further combined expeditions to the Lacandon jungle and their eventual marriage.<br><br ...

... heavy travelling (only 1 night in each location), decided to base myself here for a while. As Chiapas is a poor state, despite the above, it remains comparatively cheap. Spent a relaxing few days exploring the town on foot - no more buses for a while please!Climbed up to a few churches for views of the city, went to the market, enjoyed a variety of good restaurants and bread not found in Cozumel and went to the amber museum.  My last full ...

... drivers tend to be overgenerous with the a.c., and I really wish I had taken that more to heart. There is no way to describe how friggin´cold that bus was. And even though I was able to doze, I kept waking up as soon as my body temperature dropped or whenever the bus lurched around a mountain curve.<br><br>As soon as I got to San Cristobal, I headed to the Backpacker´s Hostel, which seems to be pretty popular. It´s cheap ($6.50 USD for a bed), and there´s a bonfire each night it ...

... mass media and fear. these top job yanks are selling weapons to both sides, but since the israelis have high tech money, more so than any of their neighbours, and are strategically more likely to comply with yank demands, they collect and discharge the biggest guns and have killed more palestinians and lebanese than have lost their own soldiers. without the sale of arms to the countries in the middle east, the united states will not record profitability. without selling ...