15/12/2010
Arriving in San Cristobel we all had to immediately change from t-shirts, shorts and flip flops, it was 7am and the sun had not yet warmed up the little town.
As we walked out of the bus station a bunch of people approached the 6 of us trying to get us to stay in their hostel/hotel. After some debate and bargaining we went with the one that offered a free taxi ride.
The guesthouse was great with albeit cold, I managed to share a room with Edwin for 80 pesos each and the other Aussies found a room for the four of them.
We helped ourselves to the free breakfast and chilled out chatting about how I travel with a soldering iron and how I can fix a lot of thing.
Before long the 5 others threw all their broken electrical equipment at me to fix, I ended up with 2 cameras and a portable speaker system. I had all the equipment and bits of electrical goods sprawled over my bed attempting to fix the issues. Unfortunatly I was only able to fix one item as the others were broken beyond repair.
When the sun finally warmed up the town we headed out to see what was what.
San Cristobel is a very laid back town where the locals are friendly the markets are filled with a vast amount of goods and some streets are open just for pedestrians (always good).
Edwin and I wondered around the markets were everyone seemed to by doing all their xmas shopping.
I returned back the guesthouse to catch up on some sleep from the bus journey where I crashed for a good 4 hours.
I promised the 5 others that ii would cook dinner and so when it was dark Edwin and I set off to the markets to buy groceries, it was so cold outside and when we got to the market unfortunately it was closed.
I managed to make do with crap meat I bought from the supermarket and other tinned shit to make a simple dish of Spag-Bol. It turned out better than I thought using left over ingredients found at the guesthouse, everyone seemed happy with the food and later we chilled by outside upstairs fire drinking beer.
Down the street from our guesthouse
The church in the main square
stacked oranges at the market
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