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San Cristóbal de las Casas

A cool highland colonial town in Chiapas, surrounded by Maya villages and cloud forest.

High in the pine-clad mountains of Chiapas, San Cristóbal is a cool colonial town of cobblestones and cafés, surrounded by Tzotzil and Tzeltal Maya villages.

It’s a base for the waterfalls, canyons, and cloud forest of Mexico’s deep south before the Guatemala border.

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