Semana Santa was certainly an amazing time to come visit San Cristobal. An already progressive and culture filed town is embellished with artists from around the world colouring the streets with chalk, live traditional music on the streets and main square, colourful statues representing different aspects of revolution in San Cristobal, specialist food markets and more. The town has such an inspiring atmosphere of hustle, bustle and fiesta. Watching one live musi...

We started off the morning seeking out a yoga class for the following day. We found a quaint little shiastki yoga studio where classes cost only (£2), but unfortunately, despite our best efforts at waking early the following two mornings, the first class was cancelled and the second day the studio closed altogether for Easter weekend. We spent our mornings instead exploring the 'award winning' Mayan museum of medicine and climbing gleaming white steps to an amaz...

An already lengthly bus journey somehow turned into 20 hours with each winding slope up to the mountains seemingly taking us only fractions of the hundreds of miles closer. Still, I slept most of the journey, only to be prodded awake by a gruff Mexican police officer at 4 in the morning demanding my passport. The landscape up to the mountains once the sun has risen is preoccupying enough for a while, with wildlife grazing amongst the lush greenery and sadly also ...