Mexico

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Mexico We didn't bike in Mexico on this trip. We left our folding bikes in a storeroom  in Cancun and headed by bus to San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, and  then on to the coast of Oaxaca. We spent the month of March in San Agustinillo,  Oaxaca. These places -- San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, and San Agustinillo,  Oaxaca, appear elsewhere in wallyandbarbara.com. Here, we will only add  one new photo from San Cristobal, and a few photos around San Agustinillo,  including a cabana where we stayed this year for the first time. It was fantastic! We saw the girl below in San Cristobal de las Casas. She was tiny, and she was  walking up and down the street, with her baby brother on her back, selling little clay  animals. In San Agustinillo, we rented a little cabana above the beach, to the east of the village.  In the photo below, the arrow shows where the cabana is located. It was quite a hike  from the village, which is out of the photo to the left, and the beach, more than  it looks in the picture. The cabana was very inexpensive, less than $700 for the entire month, and  it was quite basic inside. There was a nearly-bare living space and a  separate kitchen area, below, plus a tiny but well-ventilated bedroom, and a  bathroom. The virtue of renting this cabana was the veranda, below. And the virtue of the  veranda was its incredible views, shown in photos that follow. Barbara said  several times that our veranda, from 5:30 p.m. to nightfall, was the best place  in the world. Morning tea on the veranda. Mid-day view The evening view that Barbara saw most often    Moonset seen from the veranda before dawn Sunset -- a popular time for walking on the beaches Night falls and moon and stars come out A sunset at Punta Cometa Punta Cometa, a 45-minute walk from San Agustinillo, is the southernomst point in Oaxaca, very nearly the southernmost place in Mexico. (That honor goes to a corner of Chiapas near the Guatemala border.) Punta Cometa has special, spiritual significance to the local indigenous people -- and apparently to many New Age visitors as well. There are often ceremonies (that we don't understand) at the point. When the moon is full, a visit to Punta Cometa is special because the sunset to the west is soon followed by the moonrise to the east.