Blogs from San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, North America - page 32

Muchos holas a todo el mundo, life is good and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Everything changes, and if you pick the right position, its easy to just kinda flow, ya know? yeah. So I've returned to city life. People in the streets, multi-culturalisms, markets and really good live music. I know my life will be a mix of the urban and the rural, as I miss each so much when I'm away too long... San Cristobal de Las Casas - Its a real crossroads here. It's reletively equidistant to the Yucutan Peninsula, the South Pacific Coast of Mexico, the Mayan riviera that stretches into Guatemala and Belize, and a kind of base of support for a variety of neighbouring indigenous populations, including the autonomous Zapatista communities to the south. How'd I get here? I ... read more

Finally a lazy day. Travelling can be hard work. Bus journeys that last 24hrs or more. Trekking through humidity and heat. Worrying about not spending much money, and therefore staying in hotels that you wouldn't normally tolerate because they're cheap. A lie in at the nasty hotel followed by a day spent wandering around the markets and churches of San Cristobal. I brought some random fruit, a Papaya - large green, smelling of melon from the outside, orange and tasting like a cross between melon and banana inside. Pachuyra (I think), green scales on the outside, inside succulent milky flesh surrounding seeds, I can't describe the flavour but it was sweet and pleasant. Panches, small yellow cherry like fruit that tasted of cheese. I didn't like them. In the square we were accosted by a small ... read more