Travel to, Mexico, Chiapas, Puerto Arista.

Ok, so here is the story, last night we decided to change of our plans. We have decided to head somewhere that is out of the mountains and closer to the coast. We loved San Cristobal, but the city sits at 6,000 feet. That translates to warm days and chilly nights. After several chilly nights (low 50s or high 40s) we decided it was time to adjust our plans. So we are not going south to Comitan. I got out the book, did some reading and figured out how to get us to the coast. So the question became, is it the northwest coast or the southern part of the coast? After some discussion, we picked Puerto Arista, this location is just about 125 miles north of Tapachula and the Guatemalan border, which is on the Pacific Coast. It is a very small community that is a bit difficult to get too. We will take a small bus (hold 10 people) to Tuxtla Gutierrez. Then we will take another bus to a very small city by the name of Tonala (3 hours). From there we can get local transport (pick-up) to the beach community (20-30 minutes). Here is what
Fine Dinning
The only place open after 8 pm!my book says: "This one-street town has a handful of basic hotels and simple palapa restaurants......it makes it a mellow place to kick back for a day or two." One of the hotels was recommended to us by my teacher. So the plan is to stay at Hotel Lucero. It has a pool and sand floor restaurant. Should be fun for a couple of days!

We arrive in Puerto Arista! It was a bit difficult to get here but not too bad. About 90 minutes in a small van (collective – stop whenever some waves their hand); followed by a 3 hour bus ride to Tonala. We arrived later than we wanted to, and all of the local transport has stopped for the night. I exit the bus and get us a cab -30 minute later we arrive in Arista. We arrived at 8 pm on Thursday. The city was dead. We find the hotel, Lucero and decide to stay, we check in. We are both hungry. I asked about a restaurant. He kept saying “in el centro” (in the center of town) and I kept saying give me a name. Finally I realized that I was not getting
Puerto Arista.waiting for breakfasta name.

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