During my stay in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, the capital of the state of Chiapas, I had a brief chance to visit the celebrated Lagunas de Montebello, which are located 170 kilometers to the southwest, near the border of Guatemala.
No sooner had we passed Tuxtla’s city limits than we found ourselves and the highway entirely enveloped in thick fog. We couldn’t see anything more than two meters ahead of us, and I fully expected our driver and guide, Gabino, to pull off the road and wait for the fog to lift. But we just kept going, visibility almost zero.
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