Hotel Ciudad Real Teatro San Cristobal de las Casas

... guys at the hostel so it got quite messy. Its been a really good crowd here and have met cool people from all over the place. There are a couple of German guys here who have been stuck here for 2 weeks. They hired surf boards for the day from the last place they were at and the woman gave one of them the wrong passport back and they didnt realise until they got here (14 hours by bus)! They managed to contact the other guy who has his passport and he sent it by post but it still ...

... ki seveda cez noc zgine, ker jo je pokojni pokadil...hahaha. Barve krizev, ki pa niso krscanski, so razlicne. Krize so imeli Maji ze nekaj tisoc let pred Kristusom. Beli krizi so namenjeni otrokom. In zakaj jih je bilo toliko? Ker Chamuli ne priznavajo sodobne medicine. Svetlo modri za male deklice in svetlo zeleni, za male decke. Temni krizi so za odrasle.

Cerkev sredi trga je na videz krscanska, vendar je njihovo verovanje v 85% cisto ...

... we gezellig naar een DVD zitten kijken over de wijze waarop Maya vrouwen bevallen (wel even anders als bij ons!!)..ondanks dat hadden we toch nog trek in eten en zijn 's avonds voor het eerst ' uit eten' geweest. Inmiddels zijn we beide weer boven Jan en besloten we in plaats van het bed te verschonen een ander bed aan de andere kant van de stad te gaan huren. Voor minder dan de prijs van de kamer in de ...

... gings dann weiter in ein anderes Dorf, San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Auch hier leben die Tzotzil. Hier wurden wir von Einheimischen in ihr haus eingeladen. Dort fabrizieren sie traditionelle Kleider. Auch das war ecvht eindruecklich. Und da durfte ich dann Fotos machen...;) Wie gesagt, San Cristóbal hat mir echt super gefallen! Einfach durch die Gaesschen gehen, ein gutes Kafi trinken, flanieren und shoppen! Uiii ja, habe mal wieder ein bisschen Geld liegen lassen...

... were by Collectivo - which here are van/buses. It's a fun/easy/ inexpensive way to get about and you get to ineract with the folks, too. Once you get to city center, you can walk to just about all the interesting places.   A wonderful mix of indigenous groups gather in the central area of the city from surrounding villages to sell the art/crafts each village produces. Some pottery and wood products but most do magnificent weaving and hand embroidery. Very good beadwork is also ...

... there hand made jumpers and scarf in front of the cathedral we decided to check out the salsa scene in Latinos, choosing a table right on the dance floor to be able to see the band and garentee us a few dances. It was great fun, the band were very good and played the most popular latin songs that we all knew, and the play was seriously crowded, I got some good dances but did miss my new found friends from Cancun.

... non-indigenous people in the town that made it difficult to keep a low profile.

We found the typical white church but again it was mostly empty which considerably lowered the visual impact. What was very evident in this town was the assembled groups of “mayordomos” or religious leaders who seemed to be, for lack of a better expression, “just hanging around”. Most fascinating but in no way was I tempted to pull out a camera to take a photo ...

... alkoholin ja suolan risteytyksessä. Kapakan jukeboxin kuumentuessa entisestään päätimme poistua, ennen kuin asia menisi aivan tanssiksi. Ja poimimme vielä snägäriltä iltapalaksi paistetut kaktukset. En tiedä kuka on päättänyt, että jouluun kuuluu nimenomaan lumi ja talvi. Mexico Cityssä asia otetaan joka tapauksessa tosissaan ja keskusaukion teemana on "talvi pääkaupungissa". Eli paikalla, jossa ennen sijaitsi Montezuman palatsi saa tänä talvena luistella ja laskea m ...

... a corner of the bar. So I'm watching them and it's a drummer, a congo player, a bass player, 2 keyboard players, 2 trumpets, a sax and a trombone, and a singer, and they launch into a set of deafening but amazingly kinetic salsa and merengue, and several couples somehow found the room to dance - really well! - and we were mesmerized and totally into the whole thing for the next 90 minutes. After the set we stumbled out, brain buzzed and ears buzzing, and headed back to our hotels.

... Juan and looks completely normal until you go into the church. Inside, it also looks quite normal - statues of saints against the wall, lots of candles etc - until you notice the dead chickens on the floor, and that each local person is carrying a small box with a live chicken in it. You can guess what the fate of those chickens was. We watched for a while and a woman on the floor was chanting and waving a ...