The Chamula city market in the background. An example of a modern facility being built and the people rejecting it for the old ways, selling on the street. Almost vacant this expensive new building.

Five kilometers down the street there is no celebration in this city of Zinacantan today, well actually there is one, but the streets of Chamula show where the crowds have chosen to spend the day.

Our guide explains that the different religions of the tribes in the area are accepted, yet no one (like evangelists) tries to convert the other village over to their tribe's ways. A good lesson, our tour guide muses while looking at me (as if I were th