Mexico city

Highlights:
- Walking tour of the historical town despite the heat
- Chapultepec castle
- Walking through Condesa and Roma neighborhoods
- Day of the Dead community procession
- Teotihuacan day trip
- Day of the Dead celebrations in the centre in the evening
- Botanical gardens
- Archaeological museum - really interesting and absolutely massive - we only covered less than half in 2 hours
- The friendliness of Mexicans - so many people stopped to help us without us asking with things like directions and translation

Lowlights:
- The jetlag lasted a few days - longer than we thought it would!
- An incredibly stressful and busy journey on public transport from our hotel to the bus station

Food and drink:
- Tacos! Fish tacos from La Pescadita were particularly good
- Cakes from Pasteleria Ideal - was insanely busy and you got a tray and tongs and went round picking stuff you wanted which then got wrapped up and you paid. We had no idea what everything was so just copied what other people got - everything delicious except the sweetcorn cake which was a bit too unusual!
- Churros and hot chocolate at El Moro - day of the dead themed (aka black sugar!)
- Tasted the different traditional alcohols - pulque (a fermented, thick drink - not bad!), tequila (tasted better than our university days) and mezcal (not our favourite - too smoky!)
- Pan de Muerto - a sweet bun eaten around day of the dead timeWeiterlesen