San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico

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Ryan's Takes a Trip to a Zapatista Community and Rants About the Environment

It's been a dream of mine to visit a Zapatista community for years now - ever since I studied them in uni. I learned of EZLN, their guerrilla army filled with indigenous farmers wanting nothing more than what Mexican legend Emiliano Zapata fought for: land and liberty. He was a man not unlike...

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ryanmyers on November 17 from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico

from the travel blog: Ryan's First Sabbatical

Día de los Muertos

Day of the Dead turned out to be a bust. Not to the fault of Mexicans mind you. Movies always gave me the impression it was a wild street party with James Bond chasing a mysterious woman through crowds of dancing skeletons. So ol' Ryan started out the day like any other. Slowly. I got up by...

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ryanmyers on November 16 from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico

from the travel blog: Ryan's First Sabbatical

San Cristobal de Las Casas

Hello! Last night we took the night bus down to San Cristobal de Las Casas which is a really cool small town surrounded by jungle. We took the bus at 18:50 and arrived like 13 hours later at 7:30 in the morning. Our first plan was to get a bus the same day and go up to some waterfalls and...

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Steffi & Chris on September 13 from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico

from the travel blog: 212 days

San Cristobal, la vibra positiva!!!

Los cuatro para San Cristobal. De Palenque a aqui hay un poco mas de 200 kms. y nos costo llegar 6 horas. Imaginaos la carretera!! Todo cuesta arriba y serpenteando. Asi que cuando llegamos ya estaba medio anocheciendo, buscamos una posada y salimos a echar un par de chelas y a cenar...

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Eka on July 23 from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico

from the travel blog: Ekaren bidaia

3 Days in San Crisobal de Las Casas

This was our third day in San Cristobal de Las Casas. Population is around 100,000. It´s a cool city, literally and figurativly. It has a very distinct arts culture here with a somewhat progressive attitude about the environment, at least that what I got from the hostel I was staying in. It is...

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Chris Pagett on February 28, 2009 from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico

from the travel blog: Chris and Em's Adventure

Land of the Zapatistas

Arrived here yesterday afternoon in San Cristobal de Las Casas, in the Mexican state of Chiapas, after stopping over for a day in Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Took the chicken bus from Quetzaltenango to Huehue but a private shuttle service from Huehue to here. Not that much difference in the...

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cjones on July 14, 2008 from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico

from the travel blog: so-journ

San Cristobal de las casas and Palenque.

Hello everyone! So after the sunshine of Oaxaca, and its busy markets, we arrived in San Cristobal de Las Casas... and it started to rain pretty much the next day, and didn´t stop until we left! but the town is very very pretty... it is full of colonial houses and full of colors as well. We...

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agnesola on October 21, 2007 from San Cristobal de Las Casas, Mexico

from the travel blog: Baby and Baby's around the world travel...

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