Our hotel in San Cristóbal was pretty incredible. We spent three nights at Casa Na Bolom which is a short walk from the center of town. Casa Na Bolom is a cultural center, a restaurant, a museum, a garden, a hotel, and a historical icon. All the rooms are individual and scattered throughout the estate, down hallways, across courtyards, up steps, etc. It's a huge area that I would stroll around and constantly find new little buildings or gardens hidden around a corner.
The front entrance of Na Bolom. At night, you have to knock on the door to be let onto the grounds. The floor is made with upside down wine bottles embedded into cement.
This is the room we stayed in for the first two nights.
Some iron work along the hall
The view of the courtyard directly outside our room.
David built a fire in our room. Being in the mountains, it got quite cold at night.
Although our room was nice, on the last night we asked if we could try another room. We specifically asked for the room that Diego Rivera slept in on his trips to San Cristobal. It was another great room with a view of a garden.
The Diego Rivera Room - although that's not what the hotel calls it.
A picture of one of our group admiring the beautiful day.
I'm going to put all of San Cristóbal on hold for a second and talk about what happened the next day because it was one of the most bizarre experiences I've ever encountered. We celebrated "Fat Tuesday" in a small mountain town called San Juan Chamula. Unfortunately, the one experience that is the most difficult to describe is the one place we were absolutely not allowed to take pictures. The locals strongly believe that it steals your soul. There were signs posted as we got to the main square saying "NO PHOTOS ALLOWED AFTER THIS POINT".