SAN CRISTOBAL
Love at first sight!
The journey from Oaxaca to San Cristobal involves an overnight bus and i am happy to say i am now a pro at these buses! Never again shall i moan about a 2hr National Express bus. The buses in Mexico are actually amazingly comfortable and fast considering the distance you are traveling. On this particular journey i slept the whole way. We were still in our adoptive travel family and arrived bleary eyed at our hostel at 6.30am. They were very kind and gave us a warm welcome with hot coffee, fresh toast and hot showers. This was the beginning of a great day!
San Cristobal is the prettiest of towns with some lovely little shops and cafe's. We were very excited to be taken to one of the nicest coffee shops featuring some weird and wonderful brewing contraptions. We were all so excited by this as good coffee is close to impossible to find in Mexico and let's be honest America is'nt that much better. I don't really even care so much for coffee but after working just down the road from Monmouth coffee shop in London i relished the chance for a strong coffee!!
My time in San Cristobal mainly revolved around getting a tattoo.... i have finally covered up my smudgy triangle with a set of dotted mountains. I love it and couldn't be happier with my choice! It took around 3 hours and was only a little painful, it took an age for us to decide on the design but it was worth the deliberation. Emily and I both had one from the same artist making us forever tattoo twins!
On our final day we took a trip into the hills to visit a cave and walk around a park. It was a blisteringly hot day so we were glad to take a cab up there and hitch a ride for most of the way back. We were adapting more and more to life in an overloaded 4x4 as the day's went by. Our final night ended with a group BBQ at the hostel and night or drinking and dancing... safe to say we were not the freshest for our 6am shuttle into Guatemala!
COFFEE COFFEE!!!
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