Hotel Posada La Media Luna San Cristobal de las Casas

... expensive and the lecture would have been in Spanish so I chose the gorge. There were three German girls from the hostel going on the same tour. <br> The gorge was cool, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I have seen better ones in outback Australia, I think the Europeans were pretty amazed by it. There were alligators, but the crocs in Kakadu are twice as big. There were monkeys up in the trees but they were very far away and it was hard to make them out. The thing ...

... 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 ...

... to go but I am pleased that I did as it was fascinating to see the people in the local dress of sheep skin tunics for the men and colourful skirts and capes for the women, most of which were in bare feet as the soil provides fertility. We had to be quite careful to not take direct pictures without asking people as many believe that it steals there spirit. The tour was really interesting as were learnt ...

... not everybody&#8217;s cup of tea but I suspect that it would be culturally rewarding for anyone who would make the effort to spend some time in this beautiful place.<br><br> In my previous blogs I have often used a self-coined phrase - the &#8220;Yikes Factor&#8221;. I used it with reference to the cultural shock that we experienced in parts of Mexico due to the degree of chaos, lack of basic cleanliness and orderliness, etc. In such circumstances a &#8220 ...

... varaukseen. Vaikka se, että latinot pyörittävät maata ei suorastaan tullut minään yllätyksenä, niin erikoista oli ehkä siltikin tajuta asian laajuus. Kielitaidottomat hotellisiivoojat eivät ole mikään uusi asia, mutta käytännössä kaikki kielitaitoa vaatimattomat työt hoidetaan tuontityävoimalla. Kun vielä baarin tarjoilijat ovat paikallisia neitejä niin keittiössä all-american burgereita käännetään puhtaasti espanjankielisessä työympäristössä. Oikeastaan näiden näkymättömien ...

... t feasible for South Africans to go traveling on the South African rand and also because our passports are so restrictive. Back in San Cristobal, we took another walk to the markets to find another amber ring - this time for Nix. 21 October 2008 - Tuesday Early rise again. This time to be at 'Los Pinguinos' cycle shop. We'd booked to go cycling around the outskirts of San Cristobal for 4 hours. We met up with Ursula (our guide from Switzerland - and also part ...

... road, then stopped, cars, big trucks, pickups, tourist buses, all of it. Traffic coming the other way was very slow. So we sat in line for about 15 seconds before deciding to ride up on the left to see what was going on at the front. At this point I was leading, and after about 50 yards I saw a large group of men on both sides of the road, some shouting and cheering, others watching, but everybody focused on the road ahead. There was also a person shouting into a ...

... collective, Zapatistas limit government terms to 2 weeks and involve all companeros in decision-making until they reach consensus. <br><br>So, my visit. Upon arriving to the Caracole Oventic, you first walk up to a locked gate guarded by a young girl with a red bandana covering her face. She takes your passport to a little office, and if everything´s ok, you can come in. Before you are allowed to wander, you have to visit three offices, and in each they ask you your name ...