When it’s a public holiday or an event is taking place in San Cristóbal, you can always tell very quickly because everything is beautifully decorated and there’s always something special set up in the centre – once there was even a bouncy castle and this bungee jumping for kids.
I’ve probably been to San Cristóbal about 5 or 6 times in total. Sometimes it was the city’s so-and-so anniversary, sometimes there was a food festival and sometimes it was just another public holiday. What you can say is that there is always something going on in San Cristóbal. Of course, it can happen that there is nothing going on, but even then, many streets in the centre are usually decorated with colourful flags. At times, there were also colourful umbrellas hanging over the alleyways in a few streets – and yes, that looked very cool. Extremely instagrammable 😉
Apart from that, I think the most beautiful decoration was the flower arches at the beginning of each street at a festival. So really wooden arches at the beginning of each street, decorated with flowers etc. It just looked beautiful and you were enchanted anew at every street corner. I also remember the food pavilion in the large square, where all kinds of Mexican delicacies were sold and the existence of the city where a mariachi band played a few songs. Basically, the entire centre always becomes a ‘festival zone’.
In short: San Cris is worth a detour anyway and maybe you’ll be lucky enough to find something happening right now. I would hope so too 😊