Our New Favorite Place in Mexico – San Cristóbal de las Casas
San Cristóbal de las Casas is our new favorite city in all of Mexico! Getting stuck here after our trouble leaving the country turned out to be one of the best things to happen to us in Mexico. Something we’ve been addressing here are medical issues I’ve been having the past few months. If you’re planning your own travels we highly recommend looking into SafetyWing for your own travel insurance: https://safetywing.com/nomad-insurance/?referenceID=nicoleandmico&campaign=san-cristobal-mexico-integration-2024&utm_campaign=san-cristobal-mexico-integration-2024&utm_source=nicoleandmico&utm_medium=Ambassador
We start off exploring San Cristóbal de las Casas from the iconic San Cristóbalito Church, which gives incredible views of the city of San Cristóbal. Then we visit the Zocala de San Cristóbal de las Casas, which a main square that is lined with beautiful shops, delicious cafes, and of course another gorgeous church. By mid morning, we are ready for some snacks, so it’s time to check out the Mercado Dulces y Artesanias (sweet and crafts market). We honestly don’t know what candies and snacks we tried from here, but it was quite the experience!!
San Cristóbal de las Casas has a handful of pedestrian-only streets that make an awesome spot to stroll around and take in the architecture and feeling of the city while shopping or sipping on a coffee. Avenida 20 de la Noviembre became one of our favourite pedestrian-only streets in San Cristóbal. No matter the time or day, this street is lively and has so much to look at. At one end of the avenue we arrive to the Artisan Market where people from Chiapas make beautiful artesian clothes, jewelery, and other gorgeous souvenirs. If we didn’t travel full-time, we would have bought so many things here to bring back to Canada!
As if we hadn’t seen enough markets, our next stop was the Municipal Market. This stop totally surprised us! It was such an overwhelm on the senses, and it turns out this is not the place for lunch despite our best effort to find a place to eat!
After walking around San Cristóbal we decided to go on an incredible day tour to the top attraction in the state of Chiapas, Sumidero Canyon. This canyon captures just how beautiful Chiapas is, and was one of our favourite things to do in Chiapas. We drove ourselves to Sumidero Canyon because we have a car, but most people organize this day trip from San Cristóbal de las Casas which includes all the transportation.
There are so many things to do in San Cristóbal de las Casas, as well as the whole state of Chiapas, and we tried to fit as many as possible in this video! We truly loved our time in this city in Southern Mexico, and could not have asked for a better place to wait for Evie’s vaccinations to be fully active in her system so we can leave Mexico .
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== Chapters ==
0:00 San Cristóbalito
4:27 Every good Latin American town needs a Zocalo
5:29 No idea what we’re eating
8:25 The best street in San Cris
10:41 I wish we could buy it all
14:18 The Municipal Market is not what we expected
19:00 Wish we could all go!
22:11 Cannot believe we’re on
25:50 So much cooler than we could have expected
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16 Comments
The state of Chiapas has a lot of autonomous zones, it is an interesting situation. I wonder if that small church is over an ancient pyramid like in Cholula.
The monkeys you saw in the canyon are spider monkeys. There are many of them in the area.
If you love this surrounding, I recommend visiting Palenque or even Calakmul on your way back. Both have Maya temples/ruins like Chichen Itza but are in the middle of the forest that reminds of a rainforest.
Hopefully with your spanish lessons in Guatemala you will be able to understand a tour like this. Thanks for a great video!
Thank you for showing the markets & giving their names so that I could plot them on my G Maps! 😅
Great video! Cañon del Sumidero is beautiful. I went there about 20 years ago and loved it.
San Cristobal was also one of my favorite places in Mexico.I also noticed all the garbage in the canyon it was sad to see.You see all the crocodiles in the river then go around a bend and there's kids swimming.Did you go to the burping church?
Please do Brazil, Suriname, Guyana travel vlogs too
The 'chocolate' candy was tamarind & chili. It's the mainstay flavor combination in México. They even put that around the rim of some adult beverages. You're really going to need to visit Copper Canyon (las barrancas del cobre) on your way home. Be sure to get to the adventure park in Divisadero (Chihuahua)!
wonderful! (it looks like you were recognized at minute 4:45 – did you catch that? Sweet.
You were planning on going into a market with a dog?
20 de noviembre (november 20th) is the day in which Mexico commemorates its Revolution, which is why you keep finding markets and streets named that. Also, the chocolate candy was likely tamarind with chili, which is pretty much the most ubiquitous Mexican candy of all (you'll find that Mexico and the Philippines (and generally speaking, Asia) share so, so, so many flavors and ingredients, to the point where their origin is often uncertain). (And the monkeys were Mexican spider monkeys, which are critically endangered.)
I could never get tired of exploring small Mexican towns and seeing the zocalos. It's just the best.
Loving your adventures ❤
Never have I ever wanted to go to one place in a different country and stay a month than I do now. You made this place sound like a place anyone would like to make a home for even a little while. And the AirB and B is so inviting. I’m ready for the trip. Lol.
P.S. The next video…. Wow! Can’t wait! 😮😊
I was in San Cristobal de las Casas over 30 years ago. When I saw your vlog preview last week and the Sumidero Canyon, I remembered that I was there back then too. It was so beautiful. I look forward to your great vlogs every week. I love them. : ))
The brown roll is probably tamarind.
Lovely video as usual! We miss San Cristobal so much! It was our first real travel love destination and we keep discussing going back. We stayed 3 months there in 2021. It's such a magical place.
hey! could you mention who you used for the tour? i'm glad you had a good time in san cris / chiapas! 🙂
edit: oh hm. so you went by yourself and found a boat that just took off once full? interesting. i'd check that out too. so jealous you're doing these adventures with your own car.