Day 7: San Cristobal and Sumidero Canyon

ok so the story here starts early in the morning where we were still on the bus, the road trip wasnt smooth at all being quite bumpy didnt really help the attempts to sleep..so we didnt get much sleep...The bus stopped at Tuxtla-Guterriez a stop 2hours away from San Cristobal and steve decided that this was our stop, and was telling everyone that its here. Mr. Garmin :P..thank god we asked the driver and he told us that it wasnt out stop..pheww :P !

We arrived at the hostel which so far is the best hostel we have been yet. Clean room, hot water, working flushings, which prooved to be quite important during the day when I got diarreah :S...but before that..we went to the Sumidero Canyone..I know I have been saying this quite a lot now..but this was an unbelievable experience...it was like being one with nature - we couldnt stop taking pictures and video...as soon as we crossed the bridge the boat driver stoped us beneath a tree and he pointed out to the MONKEY...ok for those of you who dont know..i just love monkeys :)...we watched the monkey for a few minutes and moved on towards the canyon..the beauty of it is that all this is NATURAL, its not a zoo. The boat driver this time points out towards the shore where a motionless crocodile was sun bathing...yet again experiencing this in nature itself and not a zoo is so more exponentially intense...in our suprise we spotted some more crocs swimming around...the feeling is like your so powerless..all that seperates you from life and death is a simple boat...still we didnt feel afraid.

As soon as we entered the canyone we were speechless. The feeling is undescribable, you feel soo small compared to nature. The canyon was also full of birds...we saw from simple black birds to pelicans, from pelicans to condors...hundreds or even more of them ! This is when you realise the damage humans do...and a Nature Reserve is not really us humans protecting the nature, but its allowing nature the chance to reserve us these feelings...this was when I realised that this is what I want to be doing: traveller the world and visit places and experience the unexpected...the views, the animals in their own habitat - to beautiful to describe with words..both speechless..the fulcrum of the experience however was to see a waterfall coming out of the rocks..with the wind dispersing the water like thin rain, and then we went through the rush...WHAT AN EXPERIENCE..I would definately suggest this to everyone :)...believe me when I say that up till now Mexico has been totally unbelievable and has exceed by far all our expectations. All the hard work, all the vaccinations, and every single euro (or pesos) spent has been so so worth !!

..after such an experience we went back to the hostel for another typical Mexican experience: the Siesta :P ! and it was here with the bowl problems hit me :S !! Thank god I have prepared myself and got along some salt solutions.