Mexico City

The first day of our stay in Mexico City we visited the Archaeological Museum. It was fabulous and had many artifacts from the Aztec and Teutihuacan periods.

The picture of the city is of Mexico City in its earlier days. It was built on a lake as a floating, yet secured city.


Teutihuacan architecture.

Drew at the Museum of Freida Kahlo, a famous Mexican artist and poet.

The main reason we wanted to visit Mexico City was that it was close to the Mexican pyramids as we wanted to compare them to the Egyptian pyramids we saw earlier on our trip. We are on the pyramid of the sun with the pyramid of the moon in the background. Chris is halfway up the pyramid of the sun. huffing and puffing and looking for an excuse to stop. Remember, if you are laughing at me back at sea level that we are more than 2km above sea level, and my heart was racing just to look up at the steps.

Before heading off to the pyramids, we had lunch with our tour group and were serenaded by the mariachi band.

Over a two day holiday period we were in Mexico City for the Festival of the Dead., There were many celebrations and offerings as this festival means alot to the Mexican peoplle. They beleive that the dead have gone to a better place annd this is why they are celebrating. This scene, one of many throughout the country, was at the palace.

In the park near our hotel in central Mexico, this little boy fell in the polluted fountain and had to disrobe his also polluted nappy and pants and dry them on the fence. No matter, the family were all happy and having a lovely day. (We mean the real family - not the papier machier characters which were part of a union protest for more wages)

Needing some dental work, drew accepted a leaflet handed to him on the street for a discount at the local dentist, but when finding the 1 room dentistry and the Spanish speaking dentist wearing street clothes and standing beside the 2 dentist chairs, he became a little wary about trusting the ´´´´dentist´´´´. The deciding factor in his imminent escape was the terrifying view of a pair of pliers and multigrips on the dentists chairs. Later, having received a recommendation from the staff at our hotel he took a taxi and over a period of 3 days visited the recommended dentist to undertake root canal surgery. On the 3rd day while he was bravely and perhaps somewhat foolishly undergoing root canal surgery by the Mexican dentist, Chris was enjoying a lovely day tour to the silver mining township of Taxco. In the town of Taxco, Chris is pictured on a balcony overlooking the town. Behind the trattoria Marco Polo in Cuernauaca is an open courtyard with jewellery and traditional clothes shops.

Mexican folklorica dancing was amazing. The colors and sound memorised us and the theatre was beautiful.