Ti'Village Creole Ste. Anne

... workshop just outside Juchitan, with a nice shady tree outside and did my service with the assistance of Carlos a young boy at hate MC shop. He got rid of all my waste and supplied some rag!
The road had turned a bit boring long and straight and flat, mainly cattle country. I passed my first Mexican wind farm and it was huge.
I had been toying with going to Tuxtla Gutierrez to look at the Somidero Canyon but was ...

... Zipolitega huvasti j2tta viis Jade ja Jorge kiire otsus ka oma teekonda Guatemala poole j2tkata...kellel samuti illegaalseks muutumise oht v6i kellel lihtsalt maastiku muutust vaja... j2rgmised kahe p2eva jagu aega mooduvad maanteid kulutades ja poidlakuuti puudes, omades omajagu p2ikesekuumust, kuivusest kipitavat kurku ja kripeldavat n2lga...tunde oodates ning tunde r2ndavas "camionetas" veetes, samm j2llegi kuhugi l2hemale... esimene 66 v66rsil viis meid rahulikult ...

... Spiels dem Sonnengott geopf**t. In d** Anlage findet sich auss**dem auch ein astronomisches Obs**vatorium, das die Zapoteken für die B**echnung ihres 260-Tage umfassenden Kalend**system benützten. Am Nachmittag machten wir uns dann auf den Weg durch die Si**ra Madre del Sur zum 600km entf**nten San Cristobal de Las Casas. Dabei üb**nachteten wir jedoch auf halb** Strecke in Zanatepec, mitten im Urwald.

... entailed getting there by small local bus and the guide only spoke spanish....suprising really as we were in Mexico ! so had to listen hard and use all of our vast vocabulary to understand....the village had a market with an amazing old 16th century church...you would hardly recognise it as christian and catholic, more like pagan as we saw chickens sacrificed and no furniture at all, the floor was covered in pine needles and burning ...

... of buisnesses, since traffic slows merchants sell anything from fruit to cold drinks. Some will stand in the middle of the lanes to reach both drivers of the traffic. It also seems the place to catch a ride, or just watch traffic as the continuing circus of vehicles and unaware drivers parade by. You become accustomed to watching out for the reductors in a way I have never have looked for anything else on the ...

On to Puerto Arista, a relative metropolis, plenty of shops, some of them even open! Out of high season seaside towns tend to only fully open at weekends when the city dwelling Mexican hordes descend. Found a nice little place near a smelly lagoon and not far from the beach, but sadly, as often happens in Mexico, the workers started banging around at 6am - because it´s really hot later, they start work early but with no concern for their sleeping clients.

Just a stop over in this small town, where a Saturday night is spent drinking until falling asleep in the streets. It was quite funny arriving there so late, everyone just coming to us so drunk and talking to us and then after one hour seeing them sleeping outside. This time has not much apart from good hot dogs, we went to eat them at a stand where they were showing a Mexican boxing game, and i had to stasy the whole 11 rounds and cheer up with the locals...

... Margo and Vern towing their 5th wheelers. This beachside town rarely visited by gringos gave us a real taste of how the Mexicans spend their weekend on the beach. We spent Sunday afternoon under a palapa watching the kids mess around on the beach, sipping $1 cervesas (Corona) and sampling the different sweet and savoury delights that the local vendors were hawking at the tables. The Fish empanadas were delicious and cheap too. There were no ...

... map, and we knew to go the entrance of the city and look for a certain restaurant, and then to go down the street and ask for the Castillo family. So we found some Castillos but the guy seemed to not remember the names of his nephews that had gone "to the other side" or "al Norte" (to the North). So we continued on to the other ...

... hostal (we are loathed to pay more than $15/20 for a room - its all relative remember). La Crucecita is the best place we've been. Its about 10mins away from a whole string of beautiful playas, really bustling and everyone is smiling. We've also arrived on a big festival day (lots of fireworks). Always good fun. So we'll probably stay around here for a few days, then make our overnight trip to San Cristobal.