I spent one night here, nice place, friendly people. I had to scout around quite a bit to find a hotel with good parking. There was a place about two blocks from the zocalo with a parking lot two doors down that was pretty nice.

Indigenious women dressed in the local style. The skirt is a thick wool material, it must get cold an night!

I had spotted a Yamaha dealership on the way into town so I went back to check it out and see about a replacement windshield. I was suprised by how well they were stocked. I pickout a windshield and they said they could install it by the end of the day, 5:00 pm. Returning at 4:30, I found the windshield installed but very poorly, the clamps were crap. They lent me some tools and I fiddled with it for a half hour but without much improvement.

The next morning, I got out early to run up the road to a string of viewpoints over looking the Cañon del Sumidero. It's hard to believe, looking down from above, that the canyon is a 1,000 meters deep. That was until I went on the boat tour the next day.

From the canyon, I whipped across town to visit the zoo. Tuxtla Gutierrez has a zoo that has won awards for it's design and layout. All of the animals are local and the enclosures are made to look somewhat like the animal's natural habitat. The morning I was there, the zoo was undergoing renovation so it wasn't open to the public as usual but they were allowing small groups or guided tours through most of the areas.

The tour was about three hours long and well worth it. We finished up at 12:00 so I had plenty of time to stop and see the Cañon del Sumidero from below, have lunch and get to San Christobal at a reasonable hour.

On to Chiapa de Corzo and el Cañon del Sumidero