Ahhh, now thast Christmas is is over we have some time to relax and get on the computer. We were actually supposed to leave San Cristobal today (new years eve) but it will work out easier if we leave on the second. Christmas dinner was an absolute smash!! We had 10 different countries represented, a ton of great food, and more importantly, great music. From Ethiopian throat singing, to Italian folksongs, everyone was just jammin and passing around instruments all night. It was a blast and after that we went to a christmas night show.. MUFAYA!!
The last few days have been spent cruising around town and neighboring ones, visiting a museumj or two. A couple of days ago, we went to Chamula and Zinacantan, to indeginous pueblos not far from San Cris. Chamulans are famous for their agressive, and defensive attitude, basically if you take pictures of someone they will knock the camera out of your hands... needless to say I got a few shots in....
But only 8km away is this peaceful, beautiful village called Zinacantan where they grow flowers and make these really beautiful shauls. The shauls are of a really thick mateial, but they are decorated with deep purple, green, sometimes blue and read patters of intricate flowers, birds, and things that are very sparkly. It is what everyone wears there and they are so beautiful, wrapped head to toe in an out fit of these colors, babies, men,m women and all. So as we were getting ready to leave Zinacantan these two women, dressed in this beautiful traditional garb, asked us if we wanted to see how the fabric was made, explaining we can take pictures, all free!! So we folllow her to her house and she wraps this huge weaving fabric set up and pulls a wooden stick around her back and really starts going at it on the fabric... muchos musculos! So after describing the practice and telling us that it takes a month to do one shaul, and she had been doing it since she was 12, I was astonished that these cost only 300 pesos!!! The women brought out homnemade tortillass with chese and salsa for us and told us that if we came back on another day, she would show us how to make tortillas... The people from Zinacantan are far more tranquilklo than the Chamulans, just like we heard (even though they are so close).
Yesterday we visited this Cañon de Sumidero, a boat trip through this beautiful gully of a river. We saw a couple of crocodiles and monkeys, and some beautiful scenery....
Ridibng bikes a little bit here in San Cris. and loving it, cant wait to be in Belize andf be cruzing around the islands!!!!
Prospero año nuevo a todos!!!
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