Sarah (a new friend from Guanajuato) and I started the trek to Guatemala with a 1am bus ride to Mexico City this was luxury on crack! This bus has only 3 seats across and they are so wide and soft, with pillows and special things for your legs and eventually the whole thing is like an overstuffed lazy boy recliner and you can go almost fully horizontal and sleep, plus they have movies, music channels, separate boys and girls bathrooms, and wireless on board the ENTIRE time (if a bus in Mexico can figure out how to have wireless over the mountains, why can‘t Amtrak figure out how to have wifi from SF to Sac)
From Mexico City we flew to Chiapas (a southern Mexico state that borders Guatemala).
We spent the day in San Cristobal de Las Casas, a fascinating town, incredibly old with tons of Mayan history mixed with Spanish Colonialism, a huge traditional Mayan arts and crafts market, lots of pedestrian streets, old churches, good food and like GTO we stumbled across lots of music, as well as break dancing, and Marquesitas (a cross between a churro and a crepe stuffed with warm nutella or caramel…yum!) And Mom, check out the name of this street!
The following day we continued the trek to Guate (I think I will fly to Costa Rica). It wasn’t bad just long and hot. We took a shuttle (with a tour operator - don’t worry everyone I was not on chicken bus!) down from the mountains to the border, where we had to physically get out of the van and walk over the border and get back into the van and then had a very hilly windy, ride 3 hours over mountains. Great view but there were literally speed bumps every 200 meters - and I am not exaggerating this time. Eventually we arrived in Xela where the next adventure begins…
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