¡Viva Mexico!

Piramide del Sol. The Worlds' 3rd largest Pyramid, don't you know.
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Arrived in Mexico City and after a warning from a Dutch women sat next to me on the plane that if I used the metro to get to the centre that I´d be mugged and/or stabbed I was really looking forward to my stay in the city!  So, I decided on taking a cab rather than the underground.

Went for a walk around the city the next day to find that its as safe as any where else and that you're not going to get stabbed or robbed as soon as you step outside.  Spent most of my time wandering around museums and art galleries and using the metro 'cos its only 2 peso (about 6p) a journey and I haven't been mugged yet.  I've got to recommend the Museo Nacional de Antropologia as it's absolutely massive and has a lot of interesting things about the history of the peoples of Mexico.  One warning though - it is huge and your head might start hurting trying to take it all in!

More Piramide del Sol
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I'm not sure how long they're going to be there, but all along Paseo de la Reforma (the road near the Anthropolgy Museum) are fibreglass cows, all painted in different colours.  Some of them are just fantastic!

Went to the pyramids at Teotihuacan which are pretty impressive (being the 3rd largest pyramid in the world).  Skipped the whole tour thing and just wandered off on the metro and a bus.  The site is pretty damn big, I didn't realise just how big until I was standing at the end of the main road, the Calzada de los Muertos (Avenue of the Dead), looking at the Piramid de la Luna at the opposite end and seeing specks of people at the top.  It's quite hard work walking up and down the pyramids but the view from the top is damn good.  Sadly, no-one fell down the steps (they're pretty steep so the odds should be quite high!)  Ah well, there's always more ruins!

Piramide de la Luna
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Sunday was a day of culture - The Anthropolgy Museum followed by some Wrestling at the Coliseo on Republica de Peru!  Wrestling is very big in Mexico and the place was packed (80 peso gets you "ringside" but we went for the 35 peso balcony seats).  The wrestlers are all pretty rubbish and it really does look a bit fake but the mexicans love and get really nervous when they're favourites are losing (even though every fight follows the same pattern - good guys win first fight, bad guys win second by cheating, good guys win 3rd and crowd goes wild).  There was even a midget dressed as a monkey doing some wrestling!  Quality!  The other highlight of the wrestling is the scantily-clad girls that accompany each wrestler to the ring and then hold up boards announcing which round the fight is in.  They got nearly as much attention as the wrestlers.

Flaming cow
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Spent most nights in the bar in the hostel having a few drinks.  Friday was spent in a nightclub which is a museum by day and club by night.  Strange but quite cool!  We managed to jump the huge queue as the barman from the hostel knew the bouncer.  Nice!  The bar in the hostel closes at 4.30 so the mornings haven't been especialy energetic!