One of the nice features of hiring a personal guide to take me on a tour of Mayan sites, is that I also got to see some of the Mexican countryside. After my guide and I finished at Chichen Itza, we went on our way to Ek Balam. We passed a donkey tethered at the side of the road.
No imaginings of mine were sufficient to prepare me for Teotihuacan. The wonder started when we got close and spotted dozens of hot air balloons floating over the site.
That in itself was not too extraordinary, as I knew that hot air ballooning was something you could do at Teotihuacan.
It’s my last day in Mexico City. For some reason, I found myself looking at restaurants online.
I decided to treat myself to one more really good meal, and found Cedron, a nice walk away from where I am. Trip Advisor ranks it 64th of 4,391 restaurants in Mexico City.
The rhythm of my life abroad changes when I have company. As my guests are typically only with me for a week or two, we cram a lot of things in. On my own, I tend to take it much slower and easier.
In the seven days that my visitors were with me in Mexico, in addition to touring around the city, Karen, Simon and I have made five excursions outside the city, with a very helpful guide (Fernando from El Planeto Mexico) we found on Trip Advisor.
I like to think I am free from cultural biases, even subconscious ones, but being in Mexico City has taught me (once again) that I am not.
I have thought about coming to Mexico City for many years. Mostly, I longed to visit the world class Museum of Anthropology, and to stand on the site of the Templo Mayor, part of what remains of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire, where they believed the centre of the universe was located, and where the Spanish destroyed what they could and built on top of the rest.