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Nov 28, 2009, 4:12 PM

Re: [raferguson] Tuxtla Gutierrez as Rodney Dangerfield

We spent a couple of days in Tuxla, and enjoyed it, almost wished for another day. The zoo was very nice, heavily forested, focusing on the local fauna. We ate a couple of times at a local restaurant with marimba music and folkloric dancers, I believe the name was Pichanchas. This restaurant had the best tamales...... The folkloric dancers were good, as was the marimba music.

I cannot hear marimba music without thinking of Chiapas.

Richard

I hear you Richard. Some people on another thread were putting down La Pichanchas as a tourist joint but we love that place. Fun music and dancing and great tamales - a specialty of Chiapas. We highly recommend that restaurant which has, I believe two locations in Tuxtla. A great introduction to Chiapas music and dance and very well executed regional cuisine.

As far as I know, Chiapas is the only state in Mexico where public marimba concerts are easy to find and very popular. In fact, in the heart of Tuxtla at the aptly named Marimba Park, large crowds gather to listen to outdoor marimba concerts on weekends while ejoying local food, ice cream and cold beer among other treats. In San Cristóbal de Las Casas where we live, I am often treated to free marimba music when walking the pooch in the morning played by the San Cristóbal Municipal Marimba Orchestra in the main plaza known locally as El Jardin. Fun stuff.

When I hear people putting down a fun place with very good food such as Las Pichanchas, I am reminded of the years we lived in San Francisco´s North Beach just up the hill from Fisherman´s Wharf and many locals refused to go to Fisherman´s Wharf claiming it was just for tourists. Well, I walked all over North Beach and Fisherman´s Wharf several times every week and there a number of excellent restaurants and fun attractions there interspersed among restaurants and bars catering to tourists. You just had to know where to go. Same as in Tuxtla,

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