Welcome to CDMX!

Taking advantage that I was visiting my family in Costa Rica, I took a three-hour direct flight to Mexico City. The excitement already started while standing in the immigration line, when a shrill alarm sounded and the staff started to open all the lines and shepherded us towards two columns label "safe zone". There had been a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Puerto Escondido Oaxaca. Apparently, seismic waves take about 60–90 seconds to travel from Oaxaca to CDMX. The warnings are triggered automatically so people move to safe zones before any eventual shaking arrives - but in this case the quake didn't reach CDMX. Once I had cleared immigration and changed some dollars to pesos (do it AFTER customs - the first booth in the luggage pickup area has a terrible conversion fee), I ordered an Uber to take me to my humble AirBnB in La Condesa.

It turned out to be, quite literally, a hole in the wall. But it looked clean - so I guess as long as there are no cockroaches, I'm dandy!Read more