Hotel Posada El Paraiso San Cristobal de las Casas

... ich dann saemtliche Bohnen, den Kaffee und das Muesli ins wund**schoene Tal habe fliegen lassen. Imm**hin haben die Hunde sich an diesem ungewoehnlich reichhaltigem Fruehstueck **goetzen koennen, waehrend ich mit Fieb** fu** knapp 2 Tage flach lag und mich mit Paracetamol vollgepumpt habe. Viele haben sich nach mir **kundigt, wie es mir ginge - und zwei Maenn** haben es schliesslich bis an meinen Schlafsack geschafft, in dem ich schwitzend od** fri**end gelegen habe. Die beiden ...

... there. The village is called Chamulla and they practice catholic-animalism. They are catholics but in the church the don´t have any masses, marriages, funerals or even benches. The have a priest that come once a month to baptise.

The floor in the church is filled with candles and people sitting in small groups drinking soda if they are there to heal someone, mainly coca-cola or Pepsi, because that is a part of the healing process. Then they say something and spank the sick ...

... tent that I had lugged along with us for 6 weeks and put it up in a designated camping area in Glady´s back yard, for 80 pesos a night (US$6). Clare wasn´t feeling so good on the second day so we moved into a room, which was still only 160 pesos so we stayed there for the rest of our week in S.C. There was a lady there running the hostel and a hair dressers next door, we thought she was Glady´s, however after a couple of days we found out that she was ...

It was our first stop inland and it surprised us how chilly it was. Made for a nice change to be able to wear socks and shoes, pants and even a jacket and for the babies, a toque (Tyler,Josh). San Cristobal is definitely worth the stop, with lots of artisan and food markets, good places to ...

... plants is a little shrine containing the most sacred religious objects. Also on the table is a goblet used to drink the famous “posh” – a sugar cane based alcoholic drink. Raul made the point that unfortunately overconsumption of “posh” is a common problem in the town particularly during festivals when everyone is expected to participate by drinking posh in every house that they visit.

It would have been priceless to have actually seen the ...

... war against the narco traffickers who have proven to be a much tougher adversary.

Like with Che, there is a certain revolutionary romanticism that is connected with the name of Subcomandante Marcos. Unlike the Comandante whose face is known the world over, the subcomandante has always worn his trademark black balaclava and his face remains unrecognized.

Che Guvera was shot in 1967 by the Bolivian army while fighting in a leftist revolution in that ...

... of gold (yet) despite lots of trying and that having more than a few words of Spanish is a definite advantage... Also enjoying having the time to read, sleep, and, well, it's amazing how quickly the days go when you have a full agenda of reading a sleeping. We started off in Playa Del Carmen on Mexico's Caribbean coast, we'd thought it would be a Spanish style Barbados but it's more of a Costa-Del-Yucatan stretching from Cancun all the way down to Tulum. Concrete creeping ...

... a bus out of Palenque all the way to San Cristobal de las Casas, in the mountains with a stop on the way at the Misol Ha and Agua Azul waterfalls. Misol Ha consists of one 35m drop waterfall, but unfortunately it had too much current for me to swim there. Nevertheless, I was able to swim at Agua Azul, which as its name indicates is normally deep blue water. During rainy season, the water tends to be chocolaty but it did not prevent me from going ...

... this one is my amigo from costa rico, a little further south, he informed me of the second bag containing pure rock cocaine, as i put the first line of the guatemalan up my right nostril, redlining my heart rate. the room shifted, blocking out the distractions from the kitchen and restaurant. i poured a glass of wine for each of us and re-corked the bottle. roman crushed the rock and continued - you are in the perfect position here to make a little money. you have ...