Chiapas

Chiapas is Mexico’s southernmost state and its wildest, most remote region. The Spanish influence penetrated later there than most places. Looking at the fantastic geography of impassable mountains and canyons, you can see why. Even now Chiapas seems like a land of the Mayas, who ruled there for centuries. There are parts where hardly anyone speaks Spanish and you mainly hear the Mayan dialects, Tzotzil and Tzeltal. The sense of having traveled back in time strikes almost the instant you arrive.