Bike Riding
Bike rentals; a good town for cruising, but cobblestones streets, hills
Hiking
Lovely hikes into surrounding hills
Walking
Great walking town if you're up for cobblestone streets, hills; in town and outside it
Good Food
Lots of eateries that give good value
Art
More crafts than fine art, but the town is visually appealing to fine artists
Club Scene
Fairly sleepy, but bars and cafes are at least easily accessed
Reading
A place to relax for a week or more
Museums
Small museums focus on highland Maya culture and crafts
Sightseeing
Lots of low-key sightseeing revolving around modern Maya crafts, indigenous culture
Spanish School
A popular place to study Spanish in a lovely, small town setting
Handicrafts
Centuries'-old weaving, tin and metallurgy, jade and many other fine traditions.
Shopping
Small shops and co-ops sell Maya lore, especially textiles but also candles, jade and ambar jewelry
Jungle
More like forest: jungly forest
Country
Surrounded by lovely countryside and indigenous villages
Village
A small town that feels like a village and has many interesting surrounding villages
Town
A lovely small town of cobblestone streets, scented by woodsmoke
Humid
Low humidity; rains June through late September
Dry
Wet and cold in the rainy season, otherwise fairly dry
Single
Hardly a scene, but an easy place to be single, too.
Winter
Bracing weather in December & January, for Mexico at least
Summer
Rains
EnglishSpeaking
No lack of foreigners here
Gringos-mixed
No lack of foreigners here
Remote
Far from cities and borders
Expensive Hotels
Just a couple
Mid-Range Hotels
Lots of charming, inexpensive lodgings
Budget Hotels
Plenty of sweet budget properties
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