San Christobal de las casas,Mexico

It was an 8hr bus journey from the lake to San christobal,which has possible even more charm to it than Antigua and doesnt seem to be as overrun with tourists (although im sure it just seems that way!). It is a bit pricer and we{d forgotten that about Mexico but its nice to be somewhere so civilsed in a way.The landscape and buildings are beautiful,especially all the baroque and neo-classical churches,the markets are expensive but the municipal one is fun to walk about.Its high up and so quite cold at night and you could even were jeans during the day,We saw some crazy thunder and lightening here also, which even struck the ground near us,and something though we dont know what exploded with smoke (little scarey!).We met some english lads and ended up going to a techno club for my birthday with a group from their hostel.Good night was had by all.

From there we were going to head to Oaxaca but there are riots there at the minute and the buses werent even going,so a change of plans and we went to the pacific coast to Puerto Escondido which reminds me alot of San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua except more catered for tourists,in fact we may even stay somewhere with a pool as its our last week!