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We are in Mexico!
We had an overnight bus ride from San Francisco to LA and then a flight to Mexico. The flight from LA to Mexico City was quite long and we arrived in the evening.
Alonso (a very good friend from Lilly) welcomed us at his house in Tlalpan – the historical area of Mexico City. After a welcome drink in the historical centre our first day finished with sweet dreams about tequila ...
6. My imagination is a scarier place than Mexico
... we walked through a metal detector and our bags were x-rayed.
The gate did not lead to just one bus but to five slots. And since I didn’t know the ultimate destination of the bus I needed, I didn’t know which one of the four idling there was mine.
I approached the nearest bus, the one on the far right, and showed the driver my ticket. He waved me to the left, but I didn’t understand his Spanish. The destination sign on the next bus to ...
Derniers instants à Mexico
après la journée passée sous le soleil à Teotihuacan, on a décidé de se ballader dans des endroits plus frais.
On a d'abord pris un petit déjeuner mexicain à Sanborn's, dans un cadre sympathique.
Puis 1h30 de transport (metro + train) pour arriver dans la banlieue sud de Mexico, à Xochimilco, connue pour ses canaux (ancien réseau d'irrigation). On a fait une heure de balade sur l'eau et profité du calme. On a quand ...
C'est la fin, et alors
... un hotel très modeste mais proche du centre et anne lise peut s'endormir après une nuit de bus difficiele
moi, je ne peux plus dormir donc je rejoins yohann, notre pote de merida, à l'auberge de jeunesse
puis anne lise nous rejoint pour une très belle journée à mexico
un ami mexicain qu'anne lise avait rencontré à Montréal nous fait profiter de mexico 'by night', mais nous sommes un peu fatigués sur la fin...
nous partons avec ...
Ancient Mexico
... Americas. The city is thought to have been established around 100 BCE and continued to be built until about 250 CE. The city may have lasted until sometime between the 7th and 8th centuries CE. At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the 1st millennium CE, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas. At this time it may have had more than 200,000 inhabitants, placing it among the ...