Here we are with the family at that same Hostal Erni I stayed in before in San Cristobal de las Casas. Myung really likes the little girl, Wibke. I just like the place in general. Arturo and Erika are very nice.
A few days ago I blogged about Mexico City. Now I’ll get caught up far as Oaxaca City and San Cristobal.
Oaxaca was kind of blah for me, but fresh enough for Myung. She took lots of food photos. I hardly took any, as I’ve got most of the stuff worth photographing in my previous post and I just didn’t bother pulling out my camera any other times. We chilled out, not going on any of the excursions. If I had thought they were that great, we’d have gone. Myung is just going where I take her at this point, trusting that if it was worth seeing, I’d tell her. She isn’t up for seeing everything, so I’m culling the list pretty harshly. I did upload a few of the pictures she took. Here they are.
I like the random pattern the boys set up their chess pieces.
We didn’t go anywhere in Oaxaca except Oaxaca City. Myung isn’t into the beach scene and has seen as much shoreline and surf as anybody. We went directly from Oaxaca City to San Cristobal, splitting up the long ride and sleeping in Juchitan. In San Cristobal, we saw to the usual places there. Again, you can type San Cristobal in the search box and see my photos from there. Here’s one like you may have looked at before.
One interesting different thing was going to Camula on Sunday, which is market day. I went there on a weekday before and it was dead as a doornail.
This time it was entirely different. There was even some kind of Tzotzil festival going on.
Other than that, we just hung out in relatively urbane San Cristobal. Myung was comfortable there, as was I. We could both hang out there if we had to, so it’s on out list of places we may crash at least for a while someday. I know what Myung liked. She liked that the Chedraui supermarket there has imported Korean ramen.
Right now, we are in Palenque. We went to Agua Azul and Misol Ha yesterday, and the ruins today. It’s hot again, so I haven’t minded hanging out in the air conditioned hotel room for the afternoon, getting this post up. Tomorrow, we will go to the Guatemala border town of Frontera Corozal and have a look at some ruins upriver from there, Yaxchilan. From there we will head into northern Guatemala and check out Tikal. Likely, I’ll blog about Palenque and Yaxchilan from there. Until then, be well, all of you.