Hotel Maya Sol Tuxtla Gutierrez

... as the original guy swung in his original place with just a few more empties next to him to give any evidence of movement. We thumbed down a bus to take us down to the next town of Chiapa de Corzo, We had about 4 hours until we had to get another bus to the next town of Tuxtla to then get the overnight 8 hour bus to Oxaca. So we spent the time to eat and have a wander around the village only to be halted when we came across a bar that over looked the entrance to the ...

... been at "home" in the afternoon speaking with some friends of a friend of Pablo. They were there leaving somebody at his place, and they recognice us and started shouting at us. For luck!!! Because it wa ssomething wrong with the telephones and Pablo couln't contact us and, even if not at all cold, I was not at all feeling as sleeping on the street that night!! Then, at home were some frinds of a friend of Pablo, and they take us to a Karaoke, we went in a "furgoneta ...

... dreadful stomach cramps were coming and going so it wasn't always terrible. Finally, I have no idea what time it was, we stopped picking up passengers. I got to "sleep" for a while, as well as one can sleep in a bus seat. When we finally arrived in San Cristobal at 11am I was exhausted, it was cold and just wanted to lie down. I just kept saying "I can't believe I left the beach for this..." San Cristobal looked, from where I stood at least, kind of like a poor man's Oaxaca City. Its ...

... and it went through fine. I ended up using the attendants drinking water to wash the windows on the car. We were looking good it was about 3:30 and we were ready to move south as far as possible. There were some major highways heading out of town. I had two different people give me relatively the same directions . There were two options one go back and access a road that would take us around town, the other was to go trough town and access the ...

... that he would take us to the boats in his van or something. I could barely understand him. We declined and found that the boat launches for the river tour are downhill and to the right. It took all of 5 minutes to walk. Tickets are purchased at a counter near a bunch of waiting room-style seats overlooking the muddy brown river. The cost for the 2 hour boat trip is MEX$120. Our boat departed at about 4 pm. It was very hot and sticky, as it had been all ...

... been sort of traveling together with an Israeli couple, Roee and Noa, since leaving Oaxaca (along with Pieter and Michelle, from Belgium and Ireland respectively). In Palenque Roee put up some signs and got the restaurant to pick up the necessary foods, etc. Well, lo and behold, it turns out that of the 100 or so people in El Panchan at that time, who all came to Don Mucho's every night to eat, drink and listen to live music (cool place), approximately 45 of ...

... not listed on the map. Tossing the map aside, we followed the major flow of traffic and hoped for the best. We drove up one side of the inner-city mountain and then back down the other side and voila....a sign to Monte Alban. The road then led through a somewhat impoverished neighbourhood on the outskirts of town before reaching an area of open vast farmland. The remainder of the drive was a climb uphill to the parking lot as the ruins are located at the ...

... Pirates of the Caribbean 3', but we are both happy with the result. This made us a little late for breakfast, so had to settle for some pastries from the local supermarket bakery. The pan-au-chocolat were awesome - we'll definitely being buying a few more of those babies while we're here! The ride to the Canyon was amazing - we descended along the side of a mountain range about 2000m - and was very pleasant indeed as we chatted away to a Brit who ...

... of the earth, including Chiapas, 40 to 50 million years ago. Over time, forests of now extinct conifers were buried as a result of natural catastrophes. Great quantities of resin were produced from many of these trees and through a process of petrification, this resin transformed into a golden, hard and brittle material known as amber. Amber is basically ...

... sake. blanca, translate for me. stop dragging your scrawny old digit across the screen pendejo. one tap on the icon will do it. tap it. tap it good. if i see you drag your finger like that again, i'll chop the ****er off. no ****. back in san cristóbal after we all napped in the bus home, i shouted the girls a chocolate milk at a quiet café and we discussed our favorite animals, tortas and what a privilege it was to be in the company of such a worldy old marimba git.