San Cristobal de las Casas

Well, after 2 weeks in Puerto Escondido at Casa Olga's doing nothing much other that lying in the sun and reading, we decided to buy the bus ticket and get ourselves to San Cristobal. After a long 14 hours on the bus overnight (all those school ski trips have prepared me well) we arrived this morning in a very chilly climate. San Cristobal is at 2163m so it was like the feeling you get when you return home to Britain after a holiday in the sun and it's suddenly cold...very cold. Looking forward to getting the sleeping bag out tonight and getting snug under the blankets to keep warm. And after losing a night's sleep on the bus, I don't think it'll take me long to crash later.

Found an excellent bookshop today so I'm supplied for the next week with more reading material; Brick Lane by Monica Ali (recommended by my mum) and Himalya by Michael Palin (he is one of my travelling inspirations). Lots of temples to visit here and some day trips to the surrounding lakes and moutains to do some walking are planned (thought we had better be active after being so lazy in the sun - need to work off those banana pancakes!!). There are also lots of Indian villages in the area and coffee plantations to see (went to the Coffee museum earlier and had the best cappucino ever!). Still not sure whether we will continue on to the Yucatan Peninsular or not - we'll wait to here about further hurricanes and what lasting damage Wilma caused.

Hope you are all well .... feel free to email me your news or post me a comment.