Deidre in Mexico

Hi everyone, have left Oaxaca and now in San Cristobal de las casas in Chiapas State and heading for Palenque tomorrow for a couple of nights and then down the coast. All is well, it is amazing here, Oaxaca was sad to leave, in spite of the trouble there, so many warm and polite and welcoming people. Today Went up into the hills and visited a church and saw some weavers, it is all so amazing, will add photos later. The church had the traditional shamans and rituals going on, with the facade of catholicism, it was so incredibly moving to see the candles lit in blocks of light and people attending to them, they represent offering tortillas (food) to the Gods. They regard the christian saints as their ancestors. The blue Mayan cross is so pantheistic and has beautiful meaning and is higher than all the saints in the churches. Coloured plastic flags high in the sky anchored to the steeple and fixed to sacred Saber trees, flapping in the breeze sounding like some beautiful cracking sails of a ship. Much music, some dancing and many people in the plaza. Hasta lluego, Deidre