Posada Real De Chiapas San Cristobal de las Casas

For my last day in Mexico - and my birthday - I decided to treat myself and not to return to the Centro Historico. Insteat I went to the more upscale Zona Rosa. A nice place, really, with dozens of good restaurant (and not that expensive), clean pedestrian streets, pink-colored pavement (hence the name) and a friendly, lively ...

... of families here. 6! And they traveled with us today! They had a great time with our cast.

And they highly recommend that all parents who have yet to travel outside of the United States to see their daughter AND have yet to experience a true day in the life of an Up With People participant, should do so immediately. Especially when the group goes to Germany or Poland.

Just sayin' :) Can I make it more obvious? :)

We had a great tour of ...

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Upon returning to San Cristobal we ate at Tierradentro, a restaurant area surrounded by more artisan shops and book stores, with all the profits going to the Zapatistas. It served great food and was a place we would return to frequently throughout our stay. Another evening we went to a tiny local cinema which shows Latin American films and regional current affairs programs. We watched an interesting documentary, simply entitled "Zapatista", which ...

... a bunch of his friends on BMX’s (they were adults) just standing around. It was about now we seriously thought we might get robbed. But we didn’t.
45 minutes later we reached the haunted Island of the Dolls. The Island of the Dolls was an island inhabited by a hermit. When a young girl drowned nearby he tried to appease her ghost by fishing dolls out of the canal and creating a shrine for her on the island. Before long, he accumulated so many ...

... cvetja, na tjeh so posute iglice (tistih prej omenjenih iglavcev)...da ljudje ne klecijo na kamnu. Pred oltarjem so svecniki v obliki zivali in kelih za aromaticna olja.

Vas ki je sledila, je veliko bolj pomembna in zanimiva. San Juan Chamula je vas s 70 000 prebivalci. Tu zivi najbolj cisto majevsko prebivalstvo na svetu, saj je kar 75 % prebivalcev cistih potomcev Majev. Te vasi niso nikoli zavzeli Spanci. Bili so zelo dobri bojevniki ...

... koorts was met vlagen hoog...en dan weer helemaal vertrokken. Dinsdag ochtend was de koorts wederom hoger waarop we besloten om via de receptie van onze hostel een dokter te raadplegen welke binnen 20 minuten op de kamer was. Na een volledig onderzoek (het is geen Mexicaanse Griep!)begon hij met schrijven...en hij bleef schrijven, schrijven.....wat resulteerde in vier vellen papier: een rekening voor de ...

... Mayafrauen mit ihren Kindern um hunderte von Kerzen versammelt. Eines der Kinder hatte wohl eine Krankheit, welche sie mit einem traditionellen Ritual heilen wollten. Es wurde die ganze Zeit gebetet (also das nehme ich mal an, verstand ja nichts;)), und ein lebendiges Huhn wurde ueber die Kerzen gehalten und umhergeschwungen (wahrscheinlich hatten sie es irgendwie betaeubt. Es lebte noch, aber es machte keine Greraeusche). Das Ritual ging so, dass ...

... tour in the “chapel” or place of worship that seems to be in every house. In this case it only took up a corner of a room, as there were items of a non-religious nature in the room. Nevertheless it shows the devotion that the Tzotzil have to their religion, which an outsider would view as a hybrid between Catholicism and Mayan practices.

I found this part of the tour of great interest for it provided a peek into the life of a local family and I took full ...

... je pense que si jétais pas en vacances ´j'aurais craque hier quand ca m'a pris 1h30 d'achter mon billet pour Cuba a l aeroport. CAR OUI CA Y EST JE L'AI le billet pour Cuba et j'y vais le 26 mars pour 15 jours le pied total, j'arrive meme pas a y croire. Vraiment, avis a tous les (ex) Californiens dont je suis y a tellement plus dans le Mexique que Mission, cést a pleurer- a mon avis y a vraiment plus d´histoire dans ce pays qu'en France-entre les Aztecs, les ...

... and after the 20th time you dont even notice them. They all sell the same stuff like obsidian staues, silver braclets, fultes...but out of nowhere this guy shoves a Green Glass dildo eqiuped with an apple bag at me and says "you like?" in a tone that can only be described as lonley. Moving on, I got my grub and drink on and headed back to the hostel in time for what was to be the funniest thing Ive ever seen...DUN DUNDUNNNN!