Fiesta Inn Insurgentes Viaducto Mexico City

... br><br>Friday<br><br>First on the list this morning were the ruins of Teotihuacan. These ruins are a short (about an hour?) bus ride away. The main attraction here are the two pyramids -- one for the sun and one for the moon. The Pyramid of the Sun is, according to something I read somewhere (great source, huh?!) the third largest in the world, following two in Egypt. You can also climb the exterior staircase all the way ...

Koska kulttuurishokki Ranskassa kävi liian korkeaksi, päätin lähteä ihmettelemään, millaista eloa Meksikossa vietetään. Tai no oli työnantajallakin jotakin tekemistä asian kanssa. Takana on pari kokouspäivää, mutta olen ehtinyt myös kuljeksimaan kylillä kollegoiden kanssa. Onneksi mukana on myös espanjalainen, joten kieliongelmia ei ole ollut. Amerikkalaisista laatuelokuvista poiketen huumelordit eivät käy jatkuvaa kaupunkisotaa, eikä kukaan ole ainakaan vielä yrittänyt saada haltuunsa ...

... through the other parts of Mexico City to get there however is quite an eye opener. All the buildings are unpainted and incomplete giving it an overall grey drab colouring. The reason for this is that once you've painted your house, you indicate that it has been completed and thus have to start paying taxes, so everyone just leaves their houses unpainted instead. Great incentive to having a beautiful city. Before exploring the ruins, we stopped off at a shop and ...

... by the Aztecs and as with all sacred buildings, each rebuilding was accompanied by the sacrifice of captured warriors. In a major reconstruction in 1487 as many 20,000 sacrifical victims went under the blade in a single ceremony lasting 4 days. The next day we visited Teotihuacan, 40 minutes by bus from the city. Teotihuacan was the first major civilisation in Mexico. The cities grid plan was developed in the early part of the first century and ...

... wanted to go. There was a website offering 'cheap airfare' for students on spring break. Maybe they cashed in on the sympathy factor. After all, they're offering something for us, the students. CheapoAir, has anyone heard about them??? I guess it was a fair deal. $120 for a roundtrip was ok. Most of them were offering almost the same price. We just booked with them. The customer service ...

... the beers so cheap?? Next day... we decided to book ourselves another tour...we decided it might be a good idea to try to learn as much as we could about the culture while it was in english! (plus it included free taquilla!) We got on a minibus...with two other couples...and our amazing guide...who spoke excellent spanish...english and french. First stop was the ruins just outside the main city...similar to those we saw yesterday...but you could really appreciate how big they ...

... Did you know that this church was built in 1524? Five years after Conquest!" He had never noticed the date that is painted directly above the pulpit. It would seem that he was confirmed in that church and in many ways his family practices Catholicism, but are really more culturally Catholic rather than devout practices. In fact, Huitzilopochtli and his family have alternative religious practices. For the sake of privacy I will keep those particulars to myself. After dinner, we ...

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... of one of the daughters. He had lived in Maryland for awhile, and greeted us with "hey man, how can I help you". We were a bit relieved, as the menu was in Korean with strange Spanish translations. The food was killer, with buckets of homemade kimchee and other garnishes covering our whole table. Our other major dining experience was at Restaurante Chon, a LP guide-recommended Pre-Hispanic restaurant. This means little or no Euro influence, and a focus on game meat, and ...

... br><br>We met back the day after in Copenhagen and made our way up to Stockholm, some 8 more hr in the car during the night...jet lagged and tired...that's the price one pays for travelling...little sad the trip was over, little depressed about up-coming work days, same time full of lovely memories and moments to be remembered ...