Mexico June 07    Part one: Puebla, Oaxaca, Mazunte, San Cristobal de las Casas and the mountains of Chiapas

And again, i happen to visit a country in the rainy season which might help to explain the fairly grey skies in most of the pics.

Streets of Puebla
   

   

   
The bus journey to Oaxaca


   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   

   
Oaxaca
   
The city square of Oaxaca
   

   
Beetles are definitely mexican cars


   

   

   


It rains.
   
The roof of our hotel
   

   
Taken from the roof of our hotel

...ditto
   

A tropical shower on the road from Oaxaca to Puerto Angel. The road across the Sierra Sur was spectacular, but unfortunately i was stuck in the middle of a minibus so i couldn't take any pictures. Damn shame.

   

   


A moth
   
Sunrise at Mazunte
   

   
Our hotel
   

   
The Pacific ocean was lukewarm
   
but not really safe for swimming
   



   

   

   
An Iguana

A tropical thunderstorm
   

   

   



   
Who gets power from where?
   
San Cristobal de las Casas
   



   

   

   


Sunset in San Cristobal
   

   

   

   

   

   

The Rio Grijalva, a river that flows through the impressive Caņon de Sumidero, a canyon that in places has walls that drop 800 M to the waterline.
Photos do not do this natural wonder justice. But at least i gave it a try.

   



   

   

   
Baby Cocodrilos
   

   

   

   

   
The river banks start to rise
   

   

   

   

   

   
A spider monkey
   



   

   
Weird shapes created by nature.
   

   
The lake at the end of the canyon
   

   

   


And going back through
   
the canyon
   

   



   

   
A big tree in Chiapa de Corzo
   



   
San Cristobal
   

The next set of pictures is taken from the bus that took us from San Cristobal to Palenque. These are the highlands of Chiapas, very poor but with some excellent coffee. And beautiful.

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   



   

   

   


The view from our room in Palenque.
   

   

   



   

   
A Scorpion without the stinger
   


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