Hotel Parador San Juan De Dios Boutique San Cristobal de las Casas

... comprati dei maglioni che stiamo gia' usando, perche' a 2200 mt quando va via il sole fa proprio fresco.<br>Nota per chi verra' a San Cristobal: non andate a mangiare al Gato Gordo, sebbene consigliato dalla Lonely Planet, si mangia veramente male.<br>Domani si parte alla volta di Palenque. 5 ore di bus, ma questa volta siamo attrezzati per le temperature glaciali.<br><br>

... a chair to watch them go about their timeless daily activities. I didn´t see any men around all day (perhaps they were working a field or store downtown?). The house was not far from the town center so don´t imagine we were out in the jungle. The women busied themselves making handicrafts for the tourists, blue cornmeal to make tortillas for themselves and watching over the children. The Tzotile women marry young and have many ...

... The old church that sits there boasts to be the only one in the whole of Mexico that has retained its original format from when the Spanish invaded, and to be fair its not hard to notice as its colours almost warrant that you slip on your glasses its that vivid. Vibrant yellows and greens make up the paintwork that looks as though it has seen plenty of years already but that only adds to the beauty of it all. The rest of the town follows its example with almost every ...

... bride and groom (myself and Daryl) and the godparents (Sam and Where´s Simon). We later visited San Juan Chamula, a very interesting township that practices autonomous local authority as well as some highly bizarre customs in its church. Locals are very superstitious and wary of cameras as some believe that to be photographed could capture or steal their soul. Photography inside the church, or of one of the local police, is ...

... to be travelling to emmerse themselves in the local culture and broaden their point of view on life, but apparently for a certain flea infested hippy an Ipod was also on their agenda. It grinds me to think that if they (who can afford to take buses and stay at the same places as us) are willing to take from another traveller, what are they willing to do to the locals or deprive them of in order to save a buck or two?? The worst part about this whole episode is that I Have ...

... beans, light red kidney beans, dark red kidney beans, pink beans, Mexican chickpeas, Lima beans, mung beans, pinto beans, soybeans and of course there were coffee beans, but that is another story.<br><br>Come to think of it, I have a love affair with beans. I love eating beans. Being somewhat stilted in my enthusiasm for red meat, I have this idea that beans are a good source of protein in a quasi-vegetarian diet. I say that I am somewhat stilted in my enthusiasm ...

... kaikissa maailman ahtaiden putkistojen maissa). Lähikaupan ainoa viimeinen hammasharja sattui lisäksi olemaan 3-5 -vuotiaiden extrapehmeä (ja extraminimaalinen) Sponge Bob -harja, jolla joiduin hoitamaan hammashygieeniani seuraavat kolme päivaa paremman osuttua kohdalle. Kaiken rehellisyyden nimissä matka jatkuu tällä hetkellä jo hyvän matkaa Meksikon etelänaapurissa Guatemalassa, mutta jotta blogi ei jatkaisi venymistään niin jätämme Guatemalan tovereineen seuraavan päivityksen murheeksi.

... a daily basis these girls spoke very good English, which made me laugh considering where we were. I hadn't purchased anything up until this afternoon, but I couldn't resist a hand crafted Mayan calender that had been carefully burned onto animal hide. After just finishing a book on the Maya and their calender I thought this would be a perfect memento. Tomorrow we are leaving with our friends Keith and Pao and heading north east, to Palenque, the ancient Mayan ruins that ...

... schedule is pretty tight and we had booked a bus to Palenque on Thursday afternoon but which arrived there at 11:00pm. After a few hours hassle where we couldn´t phone any hostels in Palenque because the phone numbers in the guidebook were wrong, we changed to an early bus to increase our chance of finding somewhere to sleep in Palenque and to allow us to go on a canyon tour in the morning before we left. The rest of the evening was spent in a little bar near the ...