Mexico City #1

Welcome to our shared travel blog of Mexico! During our 3ish week trip in Mexico, mom, Kyz, and I will take turns updating our nearest and dearest on this app! Please feel free to follow along, ask questions, and post some comments on your favourite pics ❤️

I’ll start by catching you up on mom’s first 2 days in Mexico City 💪
After Kyz and I arrived a little late at the airport and mom’s flight arrived a bit early, we unfortunately missed our “Love Actually” airport moment! Luckily, our welcome of petals throughout the Airbnb made up for this slight mishap! On night one, we took mom to a wine bar that we purely only had to visit because of the name: Plonk! There we had our first margaritas in Mexico and mom mourned the price of a glass of wine in this country 😓 (about R150-250 a glass!). On the way to dinner we popped past a fish taco spot for mom to try her first taco (can’t believe she had made it 3 hours into being in Mexico without a taco!). And let me tell you, this is one of the best tacos either of us had tried in Mexico! Shout out to Kyla for insisting that we all get the prawn taco because, wow, so good!
For dinner we followed a recommendation for great ceviche and headed home quite full of delicious food and hours of catching up that comes from not seeing eachother for 5 months!

The next morning, we headed to the historical centre to visit the National Palace, Templar Mayor, and the big main plaza of the city - ALL of which were closed 😂. While weaving through the back streets around the plaza (which was closed to prepare for an event this week), we happened upon Christmas decoration shops that bought tears to my eyes, a photography museum that showcased the history of the punk scene in CDMX (not mom’s fave!), and the tallest building in CDMX! From the 44th floor viewing deck, we could see a beautifully clear 360 view of this monstrously big city. Our evening plans took us to Taco Orinoco for some, you guessed it, tacos! The winning taco of the night was a chicharron (crispy pork) taco!

Day 2 in CDMX started bright and early as we needed to get quite South in the city to meet Chef Raja for our cooking course. The rush hour bus journey had me lose any sense of humour I had mustered to get up so early in the morning 😂 after popping an Alzam, I managed to regain my personality somewhat. Our cooking course consisted of a trip to the local market to fetch ingredients and learn about the various chillies, spices, and products of CDMX. Here we learnt the name of the chilli, habanero, that nearly killed Kyla the week before after she mistook a chilli
salsa as a tomato salsa and had to run to a restaurant and beg for a glass of milk 😂. You would think it was her 2nd day here too 🙈 We went back to the Chef’s house to make pastor pork, two types of salsa, and tortillas for a truly special pastor taco feast! After a long rest in the afternoon, we headed out to go watch the Lucha Libre! I’ll leave this part of the evening for either Kyla or mom to write about as this is getting probably a bit too long 😂😂Read more