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Funning enough, they are relatively safe - the drug lords don't want the police to have to come in. Unless there is a drug gang v. drug gang fight.
This is one of the largest ones there is. We bought some art from the locals.
This one is smaller, and has been rehabbed by the country to include water, power and sewage.
This is Philip. Philip goes to an auxillery school in the flavala that the tours pay for. So the tours teach outsiders about these places - and give back by offerring extra schooling.
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The only thing we couldn't do was take pictures at the entrance (the drug lookouts apparently get REALLY mad there).