Left the falls we had to drive for about 150 Km up to the 2100 mt of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, this
leg of road has been the worse one we met, not so much for the conditions of the road mantle as for
it was disseminated by the topes, so it was necessary much more time to cover
the distance and the continuous stop enervate the driver; however after almost 4 hours we arrived to the coolness of
San Cristóbal.
After a turn for the varied hotels we systematized to the hotel Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas really next to the principal plaza; the city is very nice with colonial houses and buildings
painted with vivid colors, besides we
expected a very poor city, contrarily the way of life seemed better than the other cities
we saw.
Besides the visit of the varied churches and city buildings I liked a lot the colored Mercado Municipal where good articles of local handicrafts can be acquired; we practically spent a day in the zone between the market and the temple of Santo Domingo to bargain with the local indios.
Unfortunately for lack of time we have not succeeded in visiting the villages
around San Cristóbal, besides the following day to our departure there would have been the processions for
Holy week and I am regretted a little bit to lose
it.
Left San Cristóbal we directed to that the guides define one of the wonder of Mexico: the Cañón
del Sumidero, arrivals to Chiapa de Corzo we directed to the wharf taking with
the car the wrong way, after not even 10 second a police officer arrived and in a few words has made us understand that to avoid to go to the police
station to pay the fine we had to make him a "present", this however
was the only problem we had with the authorities, in all the other meetings they have been extremely kind and comprehensive.
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Jumped on one of the boats that brings about ten persons, we began the 3 hours tour, to say the truth I expected more, above all I thought it was a natural wonder instead the basin has been created following the construction of a dam, then the day was not so good. |
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Ended the tour, we had to drive along our preferred road up to Palenque, it reassured us the fact that we had decided to go another time to the Agua Azul falls to relax a little bit, a few before arriving however an accursed topes flat a tire and so afterwards to replaced it under the 30° sun we arrived to the falls in the late afternoon, too late for a bath, so we made a walk up to the top of the falls, besides also being the end of the day because of the festivities there were even more persons. For the not foreseen standstill we arrived to Palenque in late evening and as finally surprise we found all the hotels full, after a pair of hours, exhausted we found a bungalow (quite expansive) to the Chan-Kah Resort Village near the ruins.
