Mexico city, Mexico Travel Blogs

Metropolis, Megapolis, Mexicopolis
Jun 20, 2003 (41 photos)

... you feel lonely and depressed! The Frida Kahlo museum is a little museum in the bario Coyoacan witch is really interesting to visit. Mexico city is however not a place where you want to stay for more than a couple of days. The pollution is not only ...

Feliz Navidad...
Dec 21, 2006 (42 photos)

... the words 'feliz navidad' prompt Boney M's Christmas Album in one's mind.  Volumes.  As I wander across Mexico City's magnificent Zocalo, the spiritual centre of both ancient and modern Mexico, beyond the fluorescent glow of the giant christmas ...

5am in Mexico City, Again!
Jan 14, 2005

... so till next bus so grab a doughnut and don all our layers of clothing in attempt to warm up. Not much more to say. Two very tired gringos and an uneventful gap in transit. PS Not very interesting but we wanted Mexico City on the map of our route again!

Big Big City (In Fact, the Biggest)
Jun 10, 2006 (5 photos)

... . It has a great double spiral stairway all in cracked up marble (there are a lot of sagging and swaying buildings in Mexico City due to earthquakes, spongy soil, and building on top of Aztec pyramids--some of these buildings are shockingly and obviously ...

I HEART MEXICO CITY
May 4, 2008 (89 photos)

... exhibition, Ashes and Snow, which was incredible.  Starting in 2002 it continues to visit cities throughout the world and Mexico City blessed me with this experience.  Also this fabulous orchestra from somewhere (will have to add it later) the ...

Amigas or Commodore 64s?
Dec 30, 2006 (36 photos)

... 'And how do you say "Can I have a beer"?'.  Hannah.  Lounging on absorbing couches, below fanning umbrellas in Mexico City's ritzy Polanco, the essential of Spanish are quickly learned.  The arrival of hannah and mel from the height of the ...

Mexico City
Nov 28, 2006

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Mexican Madness
Sep 19, 2004 (9 photos)

... (and tequila), watching football) then today we went to see Americas play at the Aztec Stadium. Fortunately the Americas (one of Mexico City's home teams) won, even so the atmosphere at the ground was great. We are hopefully moving on to Taxco tomorrow - ...

Mexico City - Mayans World
Jul 29, 2007 (15 photos)

Mexico City (Anthropology Museum) - Mayans World

Ciudad de Mexico
Sep 12, 2006 (16 photos)

... disappointed, it was pleasant enough but nothing to write home about (although I just kind of have!) All in all I liked Mexico City, I'm not sure I could live there but it is interesting to visit. On every corner there is somebody selling something, ...

Maniacal Mexico City - noise, noise, more noise!
Feb 22, 2005 (8 photos)

... matador then picks up each one and throws it back to the owner as he does a triumphant circle of the stadium. To sum up Mexico City is a difficult task but the words lively, colourful, noisy, bawdy, gaudy, vibrant,and cultured all come to mind. Such a ...

The Largest City in the World
Dec 9, 2004 (7 photos)

... sell it. Every night is a party. We are staying in the Centro Historico, on the Zocolo the main square in Mexico city where the palace, government buildings and cathedral are. Its always filled with street artists and buskers and the street food is ...

Mexico City, Teotihuacan, Acapulco, Taxco
Jun 17, 2006 (23 photos)

... between walking back and risk getting mugged on the street, or catching a taxi and risk getting mugged in the taxi. Mexico City's taxis have a notorious reputation for robberies against tourists at night. To reduce our risk, we don't tell the driver we're ...

just a quicky
May 11, 2006 (5 photos)

... this inner city area, bought some crappy touristy presents for all the people we'd been missing back in aus. Dynamic city; galleries, grand architecture old and new, busy but not oppressively so. Soup for lunch in a nice little vegetarian restaurant ...

Mexico City - Aztecs World
Jul 29, 2007 (53 photos)

Mexico City - Aztecs World

Mexico City - Olmecs World
Jul 29, 2007 (9 photos)

Mexico City - Olmecs World

Mexico City
Aug 28, 2007 (111 photos)

... a few weeks here, 4 hostels, hundreds of pictures taken, douzens of tortillas and probably around a 100km walked, I can say that Mexico City is one of the great city I have visited.  It is really here that I could feel myself feeling really ...

Lazy Day in Mexico City
Jul 13, 2006 (4 photos)

Had a really late start today as we really had nothing to do. I didn't manage to wake up in time for the breakfast so we headed off to Starbucks down the road for a coffee injection and a sandwich to get the day started. But there wasn't really any ...

Mexico City
May 24, 2007 (12 photos)

... 2000 years ago. Following our day at Teotihuacan, we headed east towards the city of Puebla. Highlights of Mexico City: - Temple Mayor, the partially restored Aztec ruins in the centre of Mexico City that were discovered in 1978. The Temple ...

Mexico City - PreClassic World
Jul 29, 2007 (5 photos)

Mexico City - PreClassic World

Back on track
Feb 14, 2007 (5 photos)

For my return to Mexico City I had booked another hostal then last time, as the amigo hostal had been a little too dirty, smelly and with too much beds in one room. I choose the sister hostal Moneda, of which I had heard and read good things. There ...

Happy in Mexico City
Jan 16, 2005

... big one, the Anthropology Museum. Let me tell you about the Anthropology Museum. Firstly it is in the Chapultepec forest section of Mexico City. Chapultepec means cricket sitting on a rock, which I think is pretty cute. The building is a bit of a ...

Culture, culture and broken camera
Apr 25, 2007 (3 photos)

... , would you believe, before they did not know they existed!!! They are build 7 times all over again, on top of each other. Mexico City was a swamp, almost a lake and the buildings were sinking all the time and they build the next on top of it. (theorie ...

Buenos Dias de Mexico
Jul 13, 2006 (30 photos)

... impressed with Teotihuacan. The pyramids are the biggest in the world, although they are short and fat rather than tall. The altitude in Mexico City (2100m) really took it's toll as I was running up and down the 2 big pyramids (Pyramid of the Sun and Moon ...

Museo Frida Kahlo
Apr 24, 2007 (12 photos)

... , we discover the metro system, which is very good. It has numbers, colors and symbols (more than a forth of the population of Mexico City cannot read) and is cheap: (15 Eurocent for a ticket, no matter how far you go). A disadvantage of being in e.g. ...

Mexico City
Feb 26, 2007

... direction of the other, he was quite the character.  We had to take a bus back to Querataro and then another one to Mexico City. We have lost count of all the flights we have taken over the last 15 months. They were all problem free for the most ...

MEH-hee-ko
May 9, 2003 (3 photos)

... some Kiwi's and have already met some cool folk. I'm even picking up a few more words of Espanol. Well what can I say about Mexico City, it's the biggest in the world with more than 24 million people and it took us 20 minutes just to fly over the edge ...

Fiesta, Fiesta, Fiesta!!!
May 12, 2003

Buenos Dias, Still in Mexico City. Finding it hard to get outta here. The last few days have been quality, went to a place called Xochimilco, where the Aztecs planted floating flower gardens 100s of years ago for the elite, they grew roots and now there ...

Get off bus, get on plane
May 2, 2007

By bus to MC, by plane to Cancun.

Leaving Mexico without Tequilla
Dec 12, 2008

... for the folks back home. As i am touching back into France before the UK, whatever liquor I buy will be confiscated. What a shame. And no Tony Blair to blame for any of this anymore! Oh well, that's how it goes I suppose. Adios Mexico. Bonjour France.