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Published: March 23rd 2009
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Snow capped mountain peaks while bussing to Mexico City. Taken somewhere near Puebla Tim Version:
* Found Mexico City in the centre to be really beautiful and good fun. The outskirts, poor sad areas with little to no infrastructure.
* Met up with Lyenet and had a wicked time at a local party of hers.
* Saw amongst other things the temple of the Sun and the Moon! Huge place.
The Mexico City isn't such a scary place version:
* Im missing lots of photos due to my camera getting stolen in Lima, Peru, afterwards but its all good. Thanks Lyenet for the ruins photos! *
Mexico City, before visiting it, conjured up to me a huge heaving mess of poverty and crime in an area way too small to support it and really that is true, but not in the centre. While it would have been good to see some of the outlying areas, it really is very dangrous, and yes you do really stick out as a backpack carrying white dude. It would be so nice to blend in.. heh its been so long since I've been able to. The central area though, incredibly beautiful!! It has one of the best parks I've ever seen too, making
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Snow capped mountain peaks while bussing to Mexico City. Taken somewhere near PueblaSnow capped mountain peaks while bussing to Mexico City. Taken somewhere near Puebla a great place to walk and visit the various museums, art galleries, and the zoo.
I got to stay with a very kind couchsurfing host there with an awesome apartment right near the centre, making my stay all the easier! The Metro system here is also brilliant and can take you anywhere you want for an incredibly low cost, much less than buses and much more comfortable! Although in the Metro you meet the backpack carrying sound box vendors! Heh these vendors have backpacks especially made just to hold large speakers and the power for them, and when the train doors close they kick off the music at a loud volume and walk around selling the CDs of the music playing. You also then get the vendors selling DVDs who have all of that plus an LCD screen they are carrying around that plays the DVD so you can see it running. Central American and Mexican street vendors while very annoying are also very inventive.
Walking the main street of which I can't remember the name, you get to see some of the main statues of the city, all well kept and beautiful to behold. The streets there
are also lined with artisticaly inspired street benches, with each one differing from the last, from big hands you sit on, to ships you sit in, to seats made like towers of cards. I spent the good part of a day just wandering up and down that street and some others to the sides just appreciating the city for what it is. Walking the park is also more than a day's worth on its own, lined with Museums, Art Galleries, open air theatres, lakes, you name it. It also has the palace of Maximillian who used to rule these parts, which gives beautiful views of the city and the palace is a sight to behold itself. It does however show one disgusting part of Mexico City, and that is just how much smog there is. The view is shortened considerably on all sides by the smog, and you can not see past it on any side giving a bit of a claustraphobic feel.
One day trip we did, Lyenet, my host and myself, was to the Temple of the Sun and the Moon, the ruins of Teotihuacan. Quite a large set of ruins, you can climb up the largest
temple for sweeping views of the surrounding areas. The construction here is basic but still impressive, with the land very bare but the ruins stretching quite some distance left and right from the centre temple. They were reconstructing at the time a temple on one far end that had sme very impressive looking carvings all around it, and it will look amazing once finished. How they supported such a large population in such a barren landscape with the older technology they possessed is amazing to me.
A night trip I took with Lyenet to a party of one of her friends was also a massive highlight! A metro and taxi trip and we were in, with people dancing real styles of dancing! Heh she said they did that, but it was something to see. Unlike Aussie parties that generally either lack dancing altogether (Im a big offender there) or just have a bit of club like grinding going here and there, this party had people dancing real styles like Salsa and Carimba or some name like that. When the music would change styles, the dancers would change to suit the music. There was a live DJ, with a guy
MCing some of it, and while not a massive party it had just such a good feel. We also rocked up too late to buy alcohol and her friends very poiltely provided enough for me to get well and truly happy! I meant to go to the Zoo the next day, my final day, but I ended up sleeping until about 3pm so well and truly missed that! It certainly however wasn't a waste and is really going to have me looking at parties back home with a different eye.
My host again, always incredibly helpful, gave me a lift to the airport at the end of my stay to fly out to Brazil! I have been so excited about Brazil it has really eclipsed a bit of Mexico, but I knew that was going to happen... hell, im heading to Carnaval, how is anything going to beat that for excitement! I did have however a one day stopover in Lima, Peru first...
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Princesa Zapoteka
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hey amigo, de nada por las fotos =)
ahh¡¡¡ it`s cumbia no carimba , jajjajaajaj,.. you make me laugh jejejje... ok.. see ya ¡¡¡