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In San Christobal de las Casas habe ich Mexiko mal von einer ganz anderen Seite kennengelernt. Chiapas ist der aermste Staat in Mexiko. So bald man die Stadt verlaesst und in die nahegelegenen Maya-Doerfer faehrt, kriegt man das deutlich vor Augen gefuehrt. Ich war hier in Chamula. Die Leute sind so glaubig, dass sie keine Fotos von sich machen lassen. Das raubt ihnen die Seele. Die Kriche war sehr beeindruckend. Ueberall sind Kerzen und der Boden ist mit Heu ausgelegt. Leider sind keine Fotos davon moeglich. San Chris ist sehr touristisch, doch dafuer immer noch sehr billig. Es hat eine wu [View Full Entry]

ulli unterwegs - Ulrike | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 2nd 2009 | 40 Views | [diary=457785]

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My favorite place for part 1 of the journey. We spent 3 weeks here. It is a tiny little colonial town in the midst of the mountains smack in the middle of no-where. The streets are cobblestone and there were many beautiful churches, and an amazing daily market. We took some Spanish lessons here and I volunteered at a women’s clinic with a Mexican obstetrician who spoke no English. Dana and I learned lots of Spanish quite quickly as we had to use it all the time. It was here where we met are musically inclined friends from the UK. Tom [View Full Entry]

carriemcq - Carrie McQ | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: September 30th 2009 | 85 Views | [diary=441045]


So how is everyone out there. We are now in Oaxca, Mexico. A very wonderfull city full of colors. We vsited Monte Alban today. I think Im Odeed on ruins untill Mexico City. [View Full Entry]

Slukaduka - Patricia Johnson | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 23rd 2009 | 92 Views | [diary=421249]

spider monkey in trees at Tikal, Guatemala
El remate
Brigitte eat mangos

leider hat sich die aufrechterhaltung des travelblog als unmoegliches unterfangen erwiesen. erstens sind die cpu hier in mexiko alle dreckslahm und zweitens erleb ich momentan jeden tag soviel, dass ich einen ganzen roman drueber schreiben koennte. ich habe in meinen 3 wochen mexiko bisher folgende route zurueckgelegt: tijuana - guadalajara - puerto vallarta - oaxaca - veracruz - xalapa - mexico city - puerto angel - zipolite - puerto escondido - san cristobal als naechstes gehts wohl weiter nach palenque bevor ich versuche, ne woche in guatemala zu verbringen. in den letzten b [View Full Entry]

El Desaparecido - Marco Warth | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 17th 2009 | 54 Views | [diary=419297]


Hey everyone, I hope you all apreciate the 2 hours I just spent writing this whole blog for you all only for it all to disappear when I pressed save. Off to cry in my hotel now! xxx [View Full Entry]

Jen goes latino - Jen Coombs | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 10th 2009 | 52 Views | [diary=417265]


Sleep required We arrived on the overnight bus from Oaxaca at 6:30 in the morning and took a cab to a not so nice hostel not far from the town centre. The location of the hostel was good and the price was cheap, so that was enough to make us stay there for 3 nights. The ride on the bus was very uncomfortable and so we went straight to bed for a few hours when given our room, safe in the knowledge that things don't really kick off anyway until afternoon and evening and we wouldn't be missing out on anything. [View Full Entry]

RaeDan - Rachael and Dan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 17th 2009 | 75 Views | [diary=419494]

Buying a woven piece
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Travel blog is starting to annoy me as there is always a problem with uploading the photos, so photos for this to follow. I wasn't looking forward ro the 12 hour bus journey from Oaxaca to San Cristobal de Las Casa as I never sleep on moving vehicles and it wasn't ro disappoint any of us on that score. Agter plonking myself beside Aoife on the bus, we settled down to try and sleep but this wasn't going to happen, particularily as the bus raced round hairpin bends as we winded our way further up mountains. The weather had put on [View Full Entry]

Deemaguire - Dee Maguire | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 1st 2009 | 87 Views | [diary=413950]

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Me beside her

After a relaxing day in Merida, sleeping in and swimming in the sister hotel's pool, we jumped aboard an overnight bus to San Cristobal de Las Casas, which was a town on route for us to catch another bus to Oaxaca, our next official destination. We had read the warnings about theft on overnight buses and so carefully put our backpacks at our feet under our seats, thinking that that was the safest place to put them if we nod off for a while. We had heard that the bus to Palenque, a near by tourist destination, always had reports of [View Full Entry]

RaeDan - Rachael and Dan | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 6th 2009 | 83 Views | [diary=415560]


In total Lynn did four weeks of Spanish classes at 'La Casa en el Arbol' but I just can't pick it up as fast as her so I'm doing five. Its time consuming and there isn't really time to fit much else in, so there's not really all that much to tell here. The days, particuarly my days, are more or less full with the lessons and then the homework. By the evenings all I feel like doing is staring at the TV, which is really just another type of Spanish lesson in itself because now I understand a little Spanish [View Full Entry]

workshyandshameless - John & Lynn | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 13th 2009 | 86 Views | [diary=406537]

Lynn with our teachers, Gabriella and Minerva
why can't all bars be as good as this one
San Cristobal

Two aeroplanes we boarded in Los Angeles suffered technical difficulties before take off. We had to exit the first aircraft before it moved off from the terminal for reasons nobody explained. No problem, although we knew a delay of over two hours or more would probably mean weŽd miss our connecting flight from Mexico City to Chiapas. But the second incident that caused us to have to disembark an aircraft before take off was more memorable. As the plane accelerated during take off I was looking out of the window when in practically the last moment before the aircraft left the [View Full Entry]

workshyandshameless - John & Lynn | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 28th 2009 | 151 Views | [diary=400302]

Lynn
San Cristobal
View from our balcony


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