Hotel Ciudad Real Teatro San Cristobal de las Casas

... Jackson, Medusa, bees, hunchbacks, etc etc and all the children, especially the boys were wearing tyre tubes around their bellies and covered in enormous old granny type dresses. It was crazy. There were men dressed as women and they took a special fancy to Brian - he got destroyed with lipstick and everyone got a good ol´laugh. At one stage he was surrounded by about six guys all pushing and shoving to give him a kiss, lovely trashy pink lipstick too!!!<br ...

... company, and when travelling by ones self, the company can change the experience of a place. I was tempted to skip the Mexican Carribean Coast but I had heard there were whale sharks up there now and they were something I had always dreamed of seeing. Besides, part of the reason for travelling myself was to not follow anyone and try to carve my own path through the continent. <br> Dave turned up at the hostel today, he went to see the guerrillas while ...

... 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 ...

Today was an early start as we hopped on an ADO 1st class freezing cold bus to San Cristobal de las casas. The journey took over 5 hours on a very windey mountainous road taking us higher and higher through alpine scenery, a bit how I would imagine the alp's to be like in the summer but with a Mexican touch as we drove through little villages and see pigs and chickens on the edge of the road. On arrival we had to ...

... Yikes Factor&#8221; in this town in the sense in which I used the term in other parts of Mexico.<br><br> The city is located at nearly 7,000 feet of altitude, which would make it higher than Zacatecas. As I wrote in my blog, Zacatecas is beautiful but the cool nighttime temperatures make a long term stay in the winter months something only for the hardy. The same can be said for San Cristobal de Las Casas. The rain and cold temperatures we encountered ...

... katuquesadilloista oli luonnollista siirtyä eteenpäin joulupäiväkänneihin. Oikeastaan tarkoitus oli vain päästä maistamaan pulqueta (agaven mehusta käytetty ikiaikainen inkkarijuoma, eli jonkinlainen tequilarankki), josta löytämämme juottola ulkona ilmoitti. Juoma itse oli varsin maukasta, jotakuinkin hapahkoa piimää muistuttavaa. Koostumukseltaan tavara tosin muistutti sitä kuin kurkusta tulleita ysköksiä olisi saanut litran kannussa. Tarton espanjan peruskurssistamme ...

... small herds of sheep. We finally stopped at a limestone bridge. Not sure whether this really actually qualifies as a bridge but either way it is quite cool. A river flowing through a limestone cliff face which probably allows you to pass over the top. Saw that a few rock climbers have made good use of the rock walls already. At this point Ursula gave us the option of the short trip (20km) or the long trip (25km), with the additional 5km being an additional ...

... but taxes have a 2500 year history here, just as everywhere else in the world... In fact, how else can anything be done for the public good? For a moment here I'm loving taxes! But... wait, can- not... There, it's passed. But I did feel good about it, there's something energizing about public protest. Anyway, the ruins at Tonini were very cool. Tonini was a Maya city state, and the heart of the ruins is a pyramid that is one of the 3 tallest in the world, taller ...

... are not here but we are here to move the course of nature is nature in itself transmitting happiness achieved through natural spontaneity and intuition feel the universe is dynamic. that space and time are one fractal: open the door to all this love and be love love and be loved you are created by energy and will vanish into energy - in gravity endless changes are natural and spontaneous the opposite of opposite is opposite an equilibrium of the mind within the mind and ...

as alex dipped the needle into his favorite imported chinese ink for the first line, i drew a breath of air deep into my lungs and on the exhale, pressed play on the dvd player. after bonasera begs for retribution, don vito tells him - someday, and that day may never come, i'll call upon you to do a service for me. but until that day, accept this justice as a gift on my daughter's wedding day.<br><br>i first walked into las calaveras skate shop, tattoo and piercing parlor with blanca ...