1/18/20-1/23/20 Mexico City

Buenos Dias Amigos. Greetings from Mexico City, one of the largest city’s in the world😳 The flight from Paris to Mexico City was uneventful, and after the normal Mexican hassles at the airport we arrived at our Airbnb, 22 hours after leaving our hotel in Paris. Not bad!

Our Airbnb is in a newer high rise apartment building. It’s a studio with a nice balcony and 24 hour security✔️ We arrived at 10:00 local time so we enjoyed a few cocktails on the balcony hoping to get on Mexican time. No luck, even with going to bed at 1:00 AM we were both wide awake at 4:00 AM. Got to love jet lag.

Ok, we changed the agenda from the original plan and removed Morelia from the trip. We figured out about halfway through the adventure we’d be exhausted when we got to Mexico. So, we also removed the city of Tequila. Good call, we are both ready for a pool chair👍

Ok, off we go. México City has been inhabited by man since 7500 BC with the Aztecs empire building the temples in Mexico City in the 1300’s. Mexico City itself started as an island and the Aztecs drained the lake to build the temples.

Ruins of the Temples of the Aztecs and a model of what they would have looked like back in the day.

Mexico City was, for a long time, the largest city in the world, with a very high growth rate every year. It’s population is projected at 24 million. Its still one of the largest city’s in the world and very, very hard to get around in. The traffic is terrible. We tried walking tours and using the subway, but it was difficult. So we bought a hop on/hop off bus pass to better see the city and then put our plan together to see specific sights. The traffic and pollution is terrible 😳

Ok, let’s get started😎

The subway is very basic, and incredibly inexpensive, 5 pesos (.23) per trip, with 4.5 million people using the subway everyday, crazy, but clean and safe. Police are everywhere 👍

The parks in Mexico City are beautiful and the city is spotless, quite impressive.

Historical center of Mexico City, beautiful!

The name, México City, scares a lot of people, however there are police and security guards everywhere. We saw well over a thousand officers. The larger businesses all have security guards. The three Amigos were even on duty😎

Beautiful city, very clean and we felt very safe. However, the traffic is 24/7!

Need your spirit cleaned?

Ok, let’s get to the good stuff, food! Mexico City has an unbelievable food scene, restaurants, bars, Taquerias and the street scene is huge. Unfortunately, Cindy and I both have had problems with our intestinal tracks in Mexico 😳 so we can’t eat the street food anymore 😥

Food tour🔥

First, of course, the bakery, Mexicans are great bakers, not as technical as the French, but still impressive✔️