Mexico, here we are............

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30th July. Arrived Mexico City late afternoon
City of a million taxis, green VW Beetles. Huge, huge and very fast and busy. Very little English is spoken. Hotel Mallorca is near a park (Monument of Maya or something) which is a shanty town of tents and tarps. Witnessed a nude dancing demo there. Was told by the only person we found to speak English that the lefty political party hire these people to demonstrate about anything and everything.
Bit knackered, not used to the altitude yet. Hotel had no maps, so a bit of a wasted first day really.

Day 2 went to Teotihuacan pyramids
Tour of Teotihuacan, an ancient civilisation from 150 BC - 650 AD.
At the tourist shop we were shown how the Mexicans use the Madre (agarve) cactus. At 12 years old, they cut out the centre stem. This is used I several ways. A sweet milk is drunk from it, the needle sharp tip is cut off carefully with some fibres still attached, this is used for sewing. They use geranium flowers to dye the fibres. He stem also provides strips of plastic like paper which can be written on. For 3 months a sweet juice is harvested from the new centre of the plant, which is high in vitamins and proteins…(Mexican Viagra). The plant is also used to make soap and shampoo and skin creams.
We were also shown samples of the local stones, which they make jewellery and ornaments from.
We climbed the two sun and moon pyramids. The city was quite a big place. Told loads of myths and legends…..
The we went to the church of the virgin of guadalope!? (never heard of her) Apparently the most visited (catholic) church after the Vatican .

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Photos

Mexico city
Nice Cactus.............

Teotihaucan
Hard work climbing the moon............

Teotihaucan
Overview of the site..........fantastic.

Comments

[Ben]

Dancing
Was the nude dancing display by Kev?