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Mexico – We are back! In Mexico City.

We’re back in Mexico, but this time in the capital, Mexico city, this megalopolis of 25 million inhabitants. Our Mexican friend David that we met when we lived in Lausanne, Switzerland, picked us up at the airport early, and he hosted us in his family’s house for the week, a house of his sister just for the two of us!

In the afternoon we went for a walk on the craft market “Bazar Sábado”. Then we decided to watch the football match Brazil-Japan while having lunch at a Brazilian Churrascaria, Brazil won 3-0.

We went to bed early because the previous night we had a sleepless night due to the time of our flight leaving to the airport at 2am. Probably as a welcome in Mexico city, that night there was an earthquake, as it is very common in Mexico, but we were so exhausted that we didn’t feel anything at all…

The next morning we visited the old town, feeling headache from the altitude as we went straight from 0 to + 2000 m. We started with the Museum of Fine Arts, post office, the National Art Museum, all very beautiful buildings.

Mexico city - historic center

We stopped to have some delicious Mexican food and then arrived at the main square, where we could see the cathedral, a huge Mexican flag in the middle, the National Palace, where the president works and we could not see because of the manifestation, and also the Mayor Temple, the ruins of an Aztec temple.

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Local dressed in Aztec, make dance representations from the old time, others practice a kind of religious blessings on people with smoke.

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We visited the museum of photography, where we could see old photos of the city since the ’30s. Then we went to Plaza Garibaldi where groups of traditional Mariachi music play like jukebox, where people can choose a song when they pay for it. Their clothes are beautiful and they play really well. They also wait on the side of the street to stop cars for the duration of a song or two.

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On this square we went to visit the Museum of Tequila and Mezcal, the two most traditional spirits of Mexico, and it also had information about the Mariachi history.

Tekila & Mezcal museum

We had dinner at the market San Camilito at the square and then we went to Bellas Arts Palace to see traditional dance show “Ballet Folclórico de México”. It is a spectacle of 2h with a mixture of ballet, cabaret, carnival, contemporary dance, many traditional dances from all around Mexico but also with very good musicians playing live. The costumes representing each different region of Mexico were amazingly beautiful. Unquestionably the most beautiful dance show we have seen during our trip.

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It was a long and tiring but very good day. But the next day we decide to do nothing and rest a bit to recover the energy. We got up late and left home just for lunch and to watch a movie. Traveling for so long we need some time to rest and make things as normal life.

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