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Chiapas
Newest Review: ... Zapata, who led a rebellion early in the last century, only to be betrayed and killed. It is easy in Chiapas to see the poverty and to understand the desperation that fuels such movements, and hard not to sympathise. Sympathy doesn't make it any more comfortable, though, to drive these lonely roads in a relatively opulent rented car when there is little other traffic except juddering rusty trucks, their open backs crammed with locals standing upright, or military jeeps that take gun-totting soldiers to man unsmiling roadblocks. Our car is searched at one of them. After 100km or so of this, it's with relief that we stop at last to reco... more |
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Chiapas: The Deeper South (3366 words)
by duncantorr - written on 23.02.06 (Very useful, 321 readings)
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Petrol can be a bit of a problem in the remoter parts of Mexico. Filling stations are few and far between, and with this in mind we had come equipped with a road-map that supposedly had them all marked on it. Heading south into Chiapas, which qualifies as remote even by Mexican standards, I thought I'd planned it pretty well. We would be just about dry when we reached the filling station at Playas de Calazajá, where we were due to turn off the main highway. We could then head for the hills with a full tank. What's more, we were in good time to reach Palenque, our next stopping point, by nightfall. Beneath the Pemex canopy at Playas de Calazajá we ...
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