Mayan Villages around San Cristóbal

In the meantime I have joined my tour group and we have quite an interesting mix!

Including the guide we are 10 people (with one exception all female) and we also have quite a few nationalities represented:
- Tour leader is Greek
- 3 girls from Switzerland
- 2 girls from the UK
- 1 mother and here son from South Korea
- 1 Canadian girl and 1 girl from Ireland
We will travel in this group until the end of next week (Antigua in Guatemala), then a few more people will join for the second part of the trip until Costa Rica.

On Saturday we had the chance to visit some Mayan Villages around the hills of San Cristóbal. We first stopped in Zinacantán, where we visited the house of a local family and could see how they produce very colourful carpets, wall hangers and blouses.

We then stopped in San Juan Chamula, where they have a colourful (catholic) church where the local Tzotzil population performs their ancient Mayan rituals. It is not allowed to take pictures inside the church but we could observe the ceremonies, which they carry out sitting on the pine needle covered church floor, chanting their blessings, drinking coke and using eggs and chickens to keep the evil spirits away. Quite an amazing sight indeed........

San Juan Chamula

Family home in Zinacantán