San Cristobal de las Casas

The third day we headed further up into the mountains to San Cristobal de las Casas. Its a smaller town with a rich history and still fairly traditional. The city is also surrounded by many small villages of the indigenous people (Chiapas is known for its rich culture and strong indigenous population).

This is Becca and I in front of the main cathedral in the center of the city. I loved the small feel of this city and its traditional culture.


The city was full of artisan markets full of booths run by the indigenous people from the surrounding villages that come into the city to sell their hand-made crafts. It was a great place to do some souvenir shopping.


Since the city is clear up in the mountains, it was surprisingly quite chilly there even though it is the middle of the summer. To heat up a bit, we decided to do a large bonfire at our hostel and roast hot dogs and marshmallows! I think all the Brits that were staying at our hostel thought we were a little weird but thats okay because it was a ton of fun!

Here´s Brinley, Megan, Marea, and our bus drivers enjoying the fire and roasted marshmallows.


I think I´m getting pretty good at this whole roasting hot dogs thing!