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CHIAPAS 2: San Cristobal de Las Casas

September 28th 2006
If you ever wanted to go to Europe but didn´t want to flit across the Atlantic, then just come to San Cristobal de Las Casas in Chiapas. That´s an exaggeration of course, but it does have the feeling of a smaller colonial-mexican-european city with interesting characters and all the mayans and mestizo locals and german, french, and italian visitors to boot. San Cristobal is in part named aft ... read more
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Mexican Flag The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations, Mexico came under Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst... ... read more
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