Hotel Posada La Media Luna San Cristobal de las Casas

... mountainside, surrounded by beautiful pine forests. The buildings are all covered in murals depicting revolutionaries like Marcos, Zapata and the Latin American staple, Che Guevara. The school was the centrepiece of the community, for education seems to be the primary weapon in the Zapatista arsenal these days. There was even a basketball court and a small co-operative selling produce made by local artisans, including wooden Zapatista dolls with balaclavas and ...

... del poganskega verovanja iz majevske kulture. Poskusila sva tudi njihovo domace zganje (POSH), ki pridelujejo iz sladkornega trsa in koruze, tortilije z zdrobljenimi bucnimi semeni, sirom in omakami. 4 vrste koruze, ki jih v tem predelu pridelujejo, so v 4 razlicnih barvah in predstavljajo 4 cloveske rase ( rumena, bela, rdeca in crna) in 4 snovi v cloveskem telesu ( kri, kosti..).

Hisni oltar je na prvi pogled podoben krscanskemu, okoli njega je ...

... regions in the country. Interestingly, most of the immigrants coming to the US looking for work are from Chiapas and Oaxaca. More than once men stopped us on the street - after asking where we were from - usually in very broken English - they would proudly tell us they' d been to California or Arizona or Washington. Wish we could have had more in depth conversations with them. The city is a delightful mix of the old and the new all at once. Women in traditional dress carrying ...

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 ...

... in Chamula in appearance but lacking the most important ingredient – people. My only thought was that the order of this excursion should have been changed to save the best for last.

The last turned out to be a visit to Artesanias “Ramo Textil” which was a great opportunity to observe how a Tzotzilian extended family lives and makes a living by producing beautiful textiles that are probably sold throughout the tourist destinations in Mexico.

We began ...

... romanttisen ränsistyneitä ja värikkäiksi maalattuja taloja. Kadut ovat seesteisen rauhallisia ja tyhjät kadut tarjoavat loistavat mahdollisuudet keskustan omaksumiseen. Näin siis ainakin jos satutte kävelylle joulupäivänä. Erikoisesti oikeastaan ainoa asia mikä keräsi runsaasti ihmisiä oli suunnaton, useille kaduille levittäytynyt lelutori. Kenties Meksikossa lapset saavat itse valita lahjansa jouluna. Kertokoon joku asiaa tuntevampi. Joulupäivän toreiluista ja joulupäiv ...

... said cinquenta pesos which is about $5 and I paid, and he motioned to have the planks move back. Before I took off I said, regreso en dos horas, and he said I should keep the paper and I'd get though free on the way back. As I rode away I gave a couple of Black Power fist pumps to the people lining the streets, which they seemed to appreciate. It seems kind of odd to protest poor government by imposing your own tax, a little bit like 'the king is dead, long live the ...

... the boat turned round and headed back. It was on the way back that we saw howler monkeys and several crocodiles (one was about 8ft) about 10 feet away from us on the banks of the canyon. After a short stop in the town centre, the tour bus dropped us off at the bus station in San Cristobal in plenty of time for our bus to Palenque but also in time for some of the worst torrential rain I have ever seen. Luckily we didn´t get too soaked and could board our bus dry.