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Road Trip to Teopisca, Chiapas

Just 20KM SE of San Cristobal lies a very small community of Teopisca. Here we would gather wild orchids off fallen timber in the forests lining the mountains nearby this city. On the route we would encounter Zapatistas and a car stuck on the edge of a remote mountain. (No photos of the latter; sorry_

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He'll log each GPS find along with temperature, elevation, location and humidity.

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Poor Cisco walks straight into a thorn tree while looking down at an orchid find.

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Even the fat & lazy drone gets into the action. Those are great, Cisco says.

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A major crop here is flowers. For the starving table vases of Mexico, Cisco says, it's a very big industry as is evident from every Mexican market I have seen with the truckloads of them delivered each day.

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Cisterns gather the slow seepage of the upper mountain springs while delivering the payload via PVC to the villages and irrigation systems that line these mountains below here.

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Well we are beyond capacity, a record find for the day Cisco boasts.

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