After finishing our ride down the Sumidero Canyon, the tour leaves us in quaint village Chiapa de Corzo for an hour.

Residents of nearby indigenous villages sell their wares here next to the riverboat launch.

Sister Suzanne.

I'll never forget coming up on this village on my initial driving trip to Granada, Nicaragua and how excited I was to see it and the canyon. I am now taking sister along the path I forged in 2008.

It's heralded as the best spot to eat in town, the El Campanario serves some mighty fine food!

Alas the Gringos use fingers to eat chicken instead of the traditional instrument "the fork". So the chuckling waiters bring us both out bibs after sis sends a slippery chicken bone sailing.

Doll on the hombre's banyo to signify the big festival The Fiesta Grande de Enero which I had the privilege to participate in two years ago.

Standard female dress for the The Fiesta Grande de Enero.

Downtown Chiapa de Corzo, small city of around 75,000.

The highly uncommon sale of home-canned fruits and vegetables here makes a colorful display.

Vendors along the streets of the Zocalo (city "square").

It's gotta be better than Cambells ...

Somebody stop me! Another street-side chicken roaster! Suzanne says my bumper sticker says "I brake for roast chicken".

The beautiful Santo Domingo church is just 3 blocks off the main square.

Time left to catch the tour van is ticking down. Only time to grab a couple of shots, and ice cream and jump back in.

In the courtyard of the beautiful church, our mouths water as another bird bites the dust.

Climbing 3000' in a 45 minutes time span, from Chiapa de Corzo (Tuxtla Gutierrez suburb) to the caldron of the San Cristobal extinct volcano is one of my favorite drives in Mexico. So I hang from the window and shoot an exceedingly boring amount of vist

Clear skies here above the clouds are a rarity so the shutter snaps away today.