Chiapas
January 2002

Don and Lois Porter

   
Welcome to our Chiapas album. We've wanted to visit Chiapas for years. This year we finally made it. We arrived in San Cristobal de Las Casas on Friday, January 11, after staying one night at the Hotel Aeropuerto Plaza in Mexico City (which was very pleasant!). We plan to spend most of the next 3 months in San Cristobal, with a few short excursions to other parts of Chiapas. Our return tickets from San Cristobal are for April 9, and then back from Mexico City to Albany on April 10.  
    Lois in our El Cubito cabin

January 11 - Hotel Santa Clara, San Cristobal
January 12 (updated 2/20)- Settling in at El Cubito
January 12 (updated 2/20)- Scenes around downtown
January 13 - Touring Na Bolom
January 16 - Palenque Ruins
January 16 - Palenque Town
January 16 - Misol Ha waterfall
January 20 - San Juan Chamula and Zinacantan
January 23 - Tenejapa
January 23-27 - (updated 2/20)- Our neighborhood in San Cristobal
January 25 - (updated 2/20)- Music in Chiapas (marimba!)
January 26 - Visiting places nearby San Cristobal
January 28 - Church and hill of Virgin of Guadalupe
February 1 - Church and hill (El Cerrito) of San Cristóbal
February 2 - Huitepec Mountain
February 3 - Museum of Mayan Medicine
February 3 - Sergio Castro's Museum
February 5 - Amatenango del Valle
February 8 - Huitepec Nature Preserve
February 9 - Lizeth Marilar Lázaro Díaz: Quinceañera
February 8 & 9 - Carnival in San Cristóbal
February 10 - Niño de Atocha Parade
February 16 - Sumidero Canyon
February 17 - Toniná
February 16 & 23 - Chiapa de Corzo
February 16 & 23 - Lois's new marimba!
February 28 - Lois performs on marimba in statewide contest
March 26 - Another marimba performance, in Parque Central

 

 

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