Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites Mexico City At The Wtc

... young population.
Met Elias at the hostel (Hi !) who was very kind and showed me around. Too bad I was too tired to really enjoy the nightclubs...

Next day, my plane for Bogota took off at 3:50pm. I accidentally broke a piece inside the -cheap-plane, and was kindly asked to not destroy it during the flight ^^.

... as theirs when, in reality, no one is quite sure what tribe constructed it.

And so, we headed to the top! 245 steps and a few deep breaths, I was standing on the top of the 3rd largest pyramid in the world, overlooking Mexico City. I could also see a nearby pyramid, The Pyramid of the Moon, and other ancient ruins. We all took some amazing pictures and had a great time on that pyramid!

A bunch of us took the infamous "jumping" picture in which ...

... to take all his bags to dinner with him. We met the girls at their local suburb. We were disspointed to see the young one, it felt so wrong. They told us we were going to a taco shop but then instead took us to a burger joint. That was ok because they were excellent and cheap burgers (of course we were paying).What was completely ****ed up about eating at this restaurant was that the girls parents were eating there also. So Dave and I were sitting with one ...

... ja nicht zwei Mal sagen...;) Habe also noch schnell meine letzten Pesos auf den Putz gehauen... Hihihiii!
Und morgen ist mein letzt** Tag. Krass!!! Da ist nochmal Hardcore-Sightseeing angesagt. Am Abend flieg ich dann los. Ich kanns gar nicht glauben. Ein**seits bin ich zu Tode betruebt, ab** auch himmelhochjauchzend, da ich meine Liebsten wied** sehe. Und auf Schoggi und Kaese und Brot freu ich mich natu**lich auch...;) Und die B**ge natu**lich auch, so kommt Pluesch ...

... amerikanisches Auto in Mexiko zu verkaufen... Am Freitag führte uns Barbaras Gastmutter, Kathrin durch Coyoacan, ein hübsches Aussenquartier mit unzähligen kleinen Gassen und Strassen. Dort besuchten wir natürlich auch das Frida Kahlo Museum. In der Nähe von Coyoacan befindet sich ausserdem die Ciudad Universidad, die mit 270'000 Studenten grösste Universität Lateinamerikas. Schweren Herzens übergaben wir schliesslich am Abend den Lincoln an Barbaras Kollegin.

... town strung out along the main road which I had visited exactly 17 years earlier with Frank when we had done a New Year's trip to Mexico. Boy does time go by. In Angangueo we stayed at Hotel Margarita, highly recommended in the Footprint guidebook but still a big step down from the luxury of the Sheraton. It cost $30/night and was clean, but we seemed to be the only guests besides some heavily armed federal police who were guarding the ...

... Hedina Nieto turned out to be a non-stop talking machine. While I have a "working knowledge" of Spanish, non-stop chatter in a foreign language under noisy conditions can be fatiguing. The 6 kilometre road to El Rosario turned out to be "bone-jarring" to say the least, even though it was driven at a very low speed. At El Rosario there are about 80 local guides employed to lead visitors on a 45 minute steep climb along a well manicured trail to the deeply ...

After a lovely morning looking around Taxco we headed on the bus to Mexico City. I really do not feel like writing my blog right now, things are getting on top of me a bit, so I am going to copy Epi´s blog and paste it!!! Epi - We arrived to the city that boasts the 2nd or 3rd highest population in the world...depending on whom you ask. The city is definitely packed with people, over 24 million to be exact, and that is only in Mexico City itself ...

... schnell und machen uns auf in die stadt. wir erwischen eine nicht so ueberfuellte u-bahn. angekommen gehen wir wieder in ein restaurant, das wir schon von unserem ersten aufenthalt kennen und lassen dort alle pesos liegen, die wir noch hatten. vollkommen ohne geld, aber mit rueckfahrkarten, die wir schon vorher gekauft hatten, machen wir uns wieder auf zum flughafen und koennen recht schnell in den flieger. der dann auch puenktlich in richtung paris abhebt.

... the hoardes of visitors on Sundays when the museums are free. Ahh - that calls for a slight change of plan then. So instead we did a DIY trip to the pyramids, getting a bus and using the guide book to help point out the bits of interest. We climbed one and admired the other and then as we started to walk back towards the entrance to hopefully get a bus back, it started to rain rather hard. We took a break for a drink and something ...