Hostel Moneda Mexico City

Flying into Mexico City, hang on I've just realised I could not have actually flown into a city, if I had I would either be the first person ever to fly independent of any mechanism or machine or I would have very large bruises because clearly if you fly into a city this big it's going to hurt. So I'll begin again Looking out of the aeroplane window at the vast expanse of Mexico City. (It lacks poetry doesn't it) I was conscious on only one thing. How can one city be this big? it's huge. Mexi...

After a refreshing sleep and a good breakfast looking out at the spires of the Cathedral, I joined a group of half a dozen other travellers for our tour of Mexico City's largest archeological site: Plazas de las trez culturas. If I'm honest the ruins of Tlatelolco which take up much of the square didn't really intrigue me. They did have one interesting feature however, was the Aztec method of keeping time. The central pyramid was 52 steps high on each side, making a total of 365 steps, one fo...

The souvenir stalls that lead to the Basilica Square are unlike any other I have seen before. They seem to sell more holy water than cola and sales of icons of the apostles far outway those of camera film. Seeing this I was clearly ging to see something that wasn't so much a tourist attraction but a functioning religious centre that doesn't mind the odd foreigner poking their heads into the churches. The Basilica honours the Virgin of Gadaloupe, Mexco's first indigenous saint. Much of the rel...

And now for some inventiveness and creativity of a more traditional sort. Following the Basilica, We drove some distance to the north of the city to learn a little bit about the pickly truths of the cactus and local jewellry making. (They tried to make jewellry from cacti but sadly people were unwilling to carry a puncture repair kit around their necks as well) The most useful part of a cactus and in particular the algave kind is the heart, which is a long barkless conical trunk that pretrude...

let me apologise in advance for the lack of punctuation etc on this entry. I am using a truly woeful keyboard. by now i have been to several acient Mayan sites like Palenque, Chichen Itza,Monte Alban but the cityof teotihuacan wasmy first and my favourite. part of the appeal isthatit is chuffing huge! it was busywith tourists butit would take thousands tomake this place feel crowded. it is vast. the central open plaza shows again the tendency of ancient rulers to havecentrally planned cities ...

It is fittingthatat the casa di leon trotsky there is nogift shop. trotsky wasthe star ofrhe russian revolution a dashing intellectual whose betrothal to central communist dogma and beingajolly sighttoo clever ultimately ruinedhis chances of taking powerafter lenin. trotsky famously fledrussiaafterstalin took overand nestled in mexico city until the famous ice pick dispatch. I hadalways thoughttrotsky wasa bitof a wort and a bore but it is hardto see thehouse where oneofthe 20th centurys brig...

The original version of this entry was typed when I was in Hostel Moneda.
It's in my Xanga blog.
I'm feeling dizzy from this one beer 'hecho en Mexico'. I met 2 Belgium
guys last night at the hostel and one of them bought drinks for me and his
friend. I dunno why I'd get dizzy over one little beer....wahahahha.. I know
I'm not drunk though, coz I can still think and type! Oh this really cool
Belgium guy is so handsome... He's having a 10-month long trip in the Americas...

The original version of this entry was typed when I was in Hostel Moneda.
It's in my Xanga blog.
I'm using xanga blog as my travel diary..
feel lazy to write on paper



Today we got up before 8am coz mom woke up early. I wasn't sleeping very well
in the hostel but I feel fine after having coffee in breakfast. The hostel food
is awful even though I really cannot complain when they offer it for free. The
view from the top of the hotel is just fabulous durin...

Hello!!! Right, I don;t really know where to start, its been a long old week! So we finished our stay in LA, and initially planned to travel down the Baha California strip to LA Paz, where we would proceed to get a ferry across to Mazatlan. Once we arrived in Tijuana we investigated, and it was ridiculously expensive, so instead decided to embark on a 27hour bus journey to Mazatlan the following morning (which was a result as we found out a couple of days ago that the ferry was currently brok...

hey everyone... right now we're sitting on the roof of the hostel we're staying at in mexico city the sun is setting behind an ancient church steeple and we're full of dinner. we got into mexico city yesterday (wednesday)at around 11:30am, somehow we found our way through the subway with ease (kinneret's a pro) and walked through this crazy market to the hostel moneda. today we went on an expedition to the frida kahlo house/museum. it was amazing. we also went to the leon trotsky house and th...