Getting to Oventic After an hour-long hellish cab ride from San Cristobal de las Casas, through the spectacular central highlands of Chiapas, we finally arrived at the autonomous Zapatista community of Oventic. This place isn’t on maps, the residents are...
Riding Horses into the Cloud Forest at Rancho La Escondida When my friends Chris and Rachel Larsen invited me to go along with them to meet someone who had a ranch deep in Zapatista country near Teopisca, Chiapas I was intrigued. I had driven through Zapatista...
Only ten minutes from the center of San Cristobal the preserve also protects 100 hectares of oak forests. There are great walking trails with beautiful views of the city, an amphitheater, beautiful works of modern sculpture and a unique greenhouse designed to...
(Update June 2018 – Atalaia, Portugal – After I left Mexico, Wes and I kept in touch and, as travelers often do, we met up again. This time in June 2016, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We continued our friendship as if no time had passed and had a few more crazy...
I try to keep safety in mind everywhere I go. I lock doors, I use hotel safes wherever possible and try not to carry too much that anyone would want that could make me a target. I am not paranoid, and I go almost everywhere, but I use common street sense. One area...
It is only a short distance from San Cristobal de las Casas to Puerto Arista on the Pacific coast of Chiapas but these are definitely two different worlds. When my somewhat insane friend Wes Nations and I left San Cristobal it was in the mid-50s with a little bit of...
A few months ago I was privileged to go do photography with a group from Foundation Escalera. It was a great trip and a lot of fun. This image was made at an awards ceremony in an indigenous village in the municipality of Tumbalá, Chiapas, Mexico. The day was blazing...
Snacking in the walking areas of San Cristobal de las Casas is simple. Street vendors carry baskets, set up carts and open their storefronts offering a variety of foods just waiting to be discovered. From weird to comfortable to distressingly familiar there is...
