San Quentin

San Quentin where I staid over Christmas for a week and is a good example of the villages in Chiapas. The fotos are shot by Ignacio (Nacho) over the last year when he worked there as a docter in the health centre. San Quentin is a 6 hours drive in a pick-up truck on land roads from Conmitan or Ocosingo, a beautiful ride if you only have to make it once or twice or maybe three times... along some of the Zapatista caracoles. It is a 5 hours walk (for me it would be 10 hours!) through the mud to Amador-Hernandez where Carolina and I ´work´.

foto 1: Ignacio´s neighbour children which called me Elisa-Elisa all day long (Elisa is Ignacio´s Italian amore), then changed to Juanitaaaaaaaaaa!! or Elisa-Juanita to be sure... Their mother, Doña Rosa, pretends to be too busy with degraining the maiz ears, to look in the camara. They all gave me Tseltal-classes.
foto 2: Nacho, Gilberto and Victor. Gilberto was my most enthusiast fan, ´ix bonix ta holanda´, let´s go to Holland, we used to tell him! I´d happily would have take him and Edgar Benjamin (Juana´s baby, no foto) with me, those big brown eyes...
foto 3: The streets of San Quentin, the light blue door is Nacho´s.