Viva la Mexico City
In and around Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico City
We arrived safe and sound in Mexico City around 4pm on January 9th, a car from our hostel (B&B Mexico) was there to greet us. It was about a 20-30 min ride from the airport depending on traffic, and let me tell you Mexico City traffic is Horrible . The rooms here vary from 4 or five people to a room, or one bedrooms, all with shared baths. We checked into our single one bedroom "MINIMAL", but large. They serve a free breakfast in the morning, but also serve a cheap dinner. There is a common room where they have a computer, lots of books, and of course a t.v . They also have free wireless which is nice if you bring you lab top, which i did not. The nice thing about staying in hostel is the people . The people that work here are very nice and helpful , but also the people staying here are. The people are mixed, mostly young (our age) from all over the world, but their is one Irish couple mid to late 40's. I would stay here again and recommend it also. The space is small and minimal, but the location and the people that work here are great.
Our first night we headed off to the Condesa district , also known as the restaurant district part of Mexico city. We ate at a lovely restaurant called Rojo Bistiot . Our friendly server Ivan gave us some recommendation on what to do in the Condesa . The food came and was good, we're splurging a little bit over the next few days because this will be the last place with good food. After dinner we headed off to bar hop in Zana Rosa.
Our first afternoon we headed to the Zocalo, it's the town center and has an amazing church with a charming downtown. Unfortunately Mexico city was built on a a lake and a lot of the city is sinking. So the old buildings tend to be going in their own directions. After Zocalo, we went to the Diego Rivera museum. My god this man was talented. With so much to do and so little time, we jumped on the Metro (the subway) and headed to the Antropogia museum. Huge and a little overwhelming, i would recommend to any on with enough time, to send the whole day here. We spent a few hours but got so much out of it. Meagan found a statue of a Oaxacan jaguar, and I found my new favorite painter Xavier Esqueda. That night Meg and I, along with our new hostel friends Mindy (CA), Terry and Katrina from Ireland went to the Condesa and had an amazing Argentinean meal. We all seem to be heading the same way and mostly will travel to Acapulco together.
We woke up early due to the room next to us screaming about a mouse. Meg and I got ready to head off to the pyramids. WOW is pretty much all I can say. They were amazing, the larger one is called sun, (me), and the smaller one is called moon (Meg). After there we went to a local stone sculptor and received a lesson along with a lesson on the Agave, unbelievable how one plant can do so much, other than making tequila, they can make paper, along with its own pen. A needle and thread, and many other things. After this 7 hour tour, we went back to the hostel to hang. The next morning we went to Diego River and Frida Kahlo house, then jumped on a 5 hour bus ride to Acapulco.
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