Hotel La Noria San Cristobal de las Casas

... young population.
Met Elias at the hostel (Hi !) who was very kind and showed me around. Too bad I was too tired to really enjoy the nightclubs...

Next day, my plane for Bogota took off at 3:50pm. I accidentally broke a piece inside the -cheap-plane, and was kindly asked to not destroy it during the flight ^^.

... a number of cities in Chiapas, the Zapatistas were driven out by the army and retreated into the forests, where a degree of low intensity warfare continues to this day.

Sarah and Puneet had stayed in a couple of the Zapatista communties and told us how to get to Oventic, a comparatively accessible camp where they would be taking a two week language course. The following day we took a battered old minibus, which dropped us outside the camp after an hour's ...

... the bone of Aztecs the Spaniards killed when the moved in a took over. Seeing some of the bones was a bit disturbing.
Around the corner, and pretty much in the centre of the biggest city in the worlds was a ruined temple. Being a student I got in for free and wandered around the temple. It was just the base of the temple, the rest of it had been destroyed by the Spainiards, the reason the base was still there was because it had built over so many times ...

... schwingen musste, naja... Aber ich habe es zumindest versucht. Und nach ein paar Bierchen gings dann auch ganz gut...;) Am Samstag haben Alejandro, Iñaki und ich einen Tagesausflug gemacht. Alejandro, der Mexikaner, hatte gluecklicherweise ein Auto. Ich habe ganz vergessen wie angenehm so ein Auto doch sein kann... Sind zuerst zum Cañon del Sumidero. Echt sehr eindrucksvoll. Haben auch Flusskrokodile und lustige Affen gesehen...;) Danach gingen wir ...

... the price of your ticket. If the price isn't the price the locals pay, it's probably pretty close to it. So far as we can tell for trips of 2 hours in duration, it's around 20 quetzales. People can get on and got off at any point, the bus operated like a taxi with a fixed route and can be flagged down from the side of the road.

We arrived in Huehue at 8:30 in the evening. It had been an incredibly hectic day of disaster defying travels. We discovered there ...

... discretion was the better part of valor.

As part of Raul’s subtle and gentle way of doing things no one was rushed to leave and we easily lingered for half an hour trying to just let the scene envelop us in that realization that this was a unique maybe once in a lifetime experience.

The only “crisis” was when Barbara came over and whispered in my ear, “I knocked over a candle with my foot, should I tell Raoul?” I quickly glanced ...

... plaza and becomes Avenida Insurgentes. The main point of interest along the way south is the Templo y Arco del Carmen. The arch is absolutely cute and very reminiscent of Europe.

The focal point of the Plaza 31 de Marzo is the cathedral as it is special in its ability to attract tourists. In the evening of our first day we were lucky enough to catch it in the warm glow of the evening sun. While the cathedral indeed is special the four sides that border the Plaza ...

... comprends mieux alors. Et sinon le Mossad il m a dit que ta mere elle chausse du 2. Cretin. A part ca Mexico ca a tellement cartonne que c'est inimaginable - vraiment la premiere bonne surprise du voyage, En fait je pense que c'est une ville qui doit beaucoup plaire aux Europeens (surtout Francais) parce que y a vraiment un sentiment europeen, avec en plus une bonne couche de bordel latin par dessus qui fait que c'est marrant tout le temps. Enfin je dis ça ...

... pyrimid of the Moon (huge in its own right) then we all wandered off. I climbed as many pyrimids as I could (Like 6 or 7 counting the little ones) and saved the biggest for last. It takes a while to get to the top and the Altitude is high up there (Central Mexico I mean) but I sat down pulled out the uke and took in the view. Oh and when you walk around, all these merchants try and sell you stuff (Senor, one dollar, or te ...

I arrived when the sun went down, the lights from Mexico City where fantastic when I flu into this huge city. I went by METRO, into the center and there I stay in the new and very good Backpacker, Hostal AMIGOS, in the street, Isabel la Calolica. Tomorrow I'll fly I into the south of Mexico, exactly to Tuxtla Gutierrez.