San Critobal de las Casas

Our next stop was San Cristobal de las Casas, a small town where we slept in a nice hostel called Iguana Hostel. We took our first salsa class and we met interesting people. There was a korean girl travelling alone, an italian cook and photographer and a guy from Sevilla who wanted to go to Brazil last December but his flight was cancelled and travelled to Mexico instead. He has been in the conuntry since then. The hostel was decorated with an intense green which matched our camping gear. The only drawback was that there were the local festivals and in front of our hostel, they were celebrating the "mañanitas" with fireworks, a music band and bells every 20 minutes, even at night!

We took a colectivo to San Juan Chamula, a town with a peculiar religion a mix between catholic and indigenous religions. They didn´t let us take pictures of them because they think that if you take a picture of somebody you are stealing his soul. Inside the church they put pine leaves and candles on the floor and they drink coca-cola and posh, a local spirit.

We also took a two-hour boat trip through el Cañón del Sumidero where we saw alligators! It looks like El Capitan in Yosemite but even bigger.

And NEXT STOP: Palenque!