I arrived in San Cristobal Friday afternoon and welcomed the cool, crisp air! Walking around in the hot sun all day sweating makes you feel pretty tired and makes you wonder if you are actually really lazy! Here, I felt energized to do lots of walking!
San Cristobol is a much smaller city than Tuxla...about 87,000 people. It is well known for the Zapatista movement that took place in the 90's...and is still lingering today. If you don't know much about Marcos or the Zapatistas you should read, it's interesting!
The city is rested in the mountains and full of indigenous woman and children peddling their goods. They are pushy...buy this, buy this, buy this! Their clothes are beautiful and traditional but their lives are sad. They live in extreme poverty and the woman in particular carry the large burden of too many children and not enough money to feed them. It is common to see children who are probably 4 selling goods. It is sad.
We are staying at a great Hostal here in the city. We have met some fabulous people. Cynthia and Will both of whom are working for the Peace Corp and have lived in Guatemala for the last 2 years and Carlos is from Veracruz, Mexico looking to marry a foreiner :) We all went out last night and had a great time...we went to a Lebanese restaurant and smoked the Hooka! We shared some really interesting conversation regarding poverty and the indigenous population.
Been speaking a ton of spanish...even with Americans cuz it's the common language we all share!
We're sharing a room with 2 Polish woman who are noisy and wake up early.
Today our plan is to visit a local Mayan Medicine museum!
We're also going to cook our own food today...my specialty...pasta with fresh tomato sauce! We'll see how that goes over....
The best food we've eaten so far has been the cheapest. Street tamales for 10 pesos a piece (mole and chipilin...mmmmm) 1/2 a chicken and rice for 38 pesos...elotes for 8 pesos! QUE RICO!
Really enjoying San Cristobal! It's truly beautiful!
Adios...Besitos...Nos Vemos Pronto!
San Cristobol is a much smaller city than Tuxla...about 87,000 people. It is well known for the Zapatista movement that took place in the 90's...and is still lingering today. If you don't know much about Marcos or the Zapatistas you should read, it's interesting!
The city is rested in the mountains and full of indigenous woman and children peddling their goods. They are pushy...buy this, buy this, buy this! Their clothes are beautiful and traditional but their lives are sad. They live in extreme poverty and the woman in particular carry the large burden of too many children and not enough money to feed them. It is common to see children who are probably 4 selling goods. It is sad.
We are staying at a great Hostal here in the city. We have met some fabulous people. Cynthia and Will both of whom are working for the Peace Corp and have lived in Guatemala for the last 2 years and Carlos is from Veracruz, Mexico looking to marry a foreiner :) We all went out last night and had a great time...we went to a Lebanese restaurant and smoked the Hooka! We shared some really interesting conversation regarding poverty and the indigenous population.
Been speaking a ton of spanish...even with Americans cuz it's the common language we all share!
We're sharing a room with 2 Polish woman who are noisy and wake up early.
Today our plan is to visit a local Mayan Medicine museum!
We're also going to cook our own food today...my specialty...pasta with fresh tomato sauce! We'll see how that goes over....
The best food we've eaten so far has been the cheapest. Street tamales for 10 pesos a piece (mole and chipilin...mmmmm) 1/2 a chicken and rice for 38 pesos...elotes for 8 pesos! QUE RICO!
Really enjoying San Cristobal! It's truly beautiful!
Adios...Besitos...Nos Vemos Pronto!
I live in San Cristobal for a year now. I have a different outlook: Americans often describe lifestyles other than their own as "sad" or "poor" It is true that the indigenous are not American suburbanites.
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