San Cristobal de Las Casas Day 6

by tandurq on Dec.27, 2008, under Mexico, Travel

I really didn’t have much planned for today as I wanted to relax a bit. The bus rides have taken a toll and I decided to stay an extra night in San Cristobal. I slept in til about 9 and headed out to check out the Artesanias in San Cristobal. Didn’t buy too much and decided to head outside of San Cristobal to check out the scenery. I tool a collectivo (shared taxi) out to San Juan Chamula which was a small town in the hills about 12km outside of the city. There wasn’t too much there. It was a small community with a rather large market. Being that it was the weekend there were lots of locals and tourists out and about. I met two people from San Jose (Dennis and Vivian) who accompanied me through he city. We went to the cathedral and witnessed a few chicken sacrifices. That was rather cool. Apparently if you snap the chickens head it isn’t an instantaneous death. Anyways that was the highlight of the day. We headed back to San Cristobal de Las Casas, ate the best pozole ever and then I was on a bus to Oaxaca.


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