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CHIAPAS 2: San Cristobal de Las Casas

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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

North America » Mexico » Chiapas » San Cristobal de las Casas

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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