Mexico

In the summer of 2005, KU graduate student Raul Diaz and I traveled to the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico to do some general collecting. Most of the original vegetation in this area had regrown after being cut down in the last few decades, but we still managed to find a decent diversity of herps. From a cultural standpoint, this area of Mexico is interesting because outside of the major cities, the ancient Mayan language of Tzotzil is spoken by many people, including our guide pictured with me to the left.