The next stop was in San Cristóbal de las Casas in the state of Chiappas.



Chiappas is the poorest state of Mexico and the home of the revolutionary group of the Zapatistas. But it seems like the state is doing more and more for this region and so today it is mainly an nice little town with lots of caffees and restaurants in the mountains (at 2100m) of Chiappas





As you can see on these pictures the weather wasn't always beautiful and it got quite cool at night.




By the way, look at the car from the picture above: a broken back window can also by some sort of moving fruitshop:




Even though there aren't any significant military activities at the moment from the Zapatistas, they are still present all over town:


(Ejército Zapatista de Liberacíon Nacional)


One of the natural sights near San Cristóbal de las Casas is the Cañon de Sumidoro:



This canion used to be a wild river until a powerplant was built further down the stream. Today they do speed-boat-tours trough these up to 1000m high canions:






And today this river is also home to many crocodiles:






And since the town of Tuxtla Gutierrez was really close, I also visited their famous zoo. It is a beautiful zoo in the middle of the forest with all the animals that live in Mexico and Central America.

So I finally got to see some animals from up close, that were so hard to spot in the wild; like the famous Tucan bird:



So it really is all that colourful:




Another animal I really wanted to see was the Tapir... but that stupid thing was asleep and you could not see it.

But I found another funny looking guy:



This is some endangered ant-eater that lives in Mexico. Funny guy and really cute I thought: