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Cuauhtémoc

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    • Day 1–7

      Primera noche en la ciudad de México.

      April 14 in Mexico ⋅ 🌙 18 °C

      Wir sind in der ersten Unterkunft angekommen. Besser hätte die Hinreise nicht laufen können! Wir haben unsere Wecker gehört, haben den Flug nicht verpasst, sind durch alle Kontrollen gekommen. Die Rucksäcke sind als Sperrgepäck durchgegangen (so fühlen sie sich auch an). Annas Rucksack 8,9kg und meiner 9,9kg). Mit dem Taxi dann zaaaack zur Unterkunft, durch Mexiko City bei Nacht. Jetzt sind wir in unserer ersten Unterkunft und werden die eingelaufenen Beine hochlegen.
      Gute Nacht 🌙
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    • Day 2

      Parque México y Chapultepec 🌳🌵🌴⛲️☀️

      April 14 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      Heute waren wir in verschiedenen Parks unterwegs. Ungefähr jeder hat einen Hund, ungefähr jeder macht Sport und ungefähr jeder verkauft was zu essen. Wir haben da dann gefrühstückt, gelesen, Leute beobachtet, gegessen und nichts gemacht. Spontan dann noch einen riesigen Markt entdeckt, mit viiiel viel Essen! Wunderbarer erster Tag. Den Abend haben wir mit Burritos und Gringas ausklingen lassen. 🌯🌮Read more

    • Day 4

      Arena México

      June 28, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ 🌧 21 °C

      ¡Bienvenidos Anika y Oli!
      Unsere Reise geht ab jetzt zu viert weiter und das erste Abenteuer lässt auch nicht lange auf sich warten: Anika Rucksack steckt noch irgendwo zwischen Montreal und Mexico fest und so geht es für sie erstmal shoppen. Bevor es zum Abendprogramm über geht, schmieden wir bei ein paar Drinks Pläne für die weitere Reise. Die Getränke sind genau wie das Land selber - unfassbar riesig! So genießen wir im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes literweise Margherita, Mojito und Micheladas. Den Abend verbringen wir beim Wrestling und sind erstaunt, wie cool es doch ist, den Athleten beim gestellten Kampf zuzuschauen. Es wird gegröhlt, gepfiffen, gebuht und gestaunt!Read more

    • Day 2–4

      Weiterreise nach Mexiko City

      April 21 in Mexico ⋅ 🌩️ 24 °C

      Nach einer langen Nacht auf dem 12h Stunden Flug bin ich in der Früh endlich in Mexiko angekommen. Einreise war problemlos. Ein Taxifahrer hat mich abgeholt und zu unserem Hotel gebracht. Der mexikanische Stil des Hotels gefällt mir sehr.

      Habe dann noch 3h Schlaf nachgeholt. Meine Zimmerkollegin Afton (aus England) habe ich bald kennengelernt. Sie ist total nett. Am Nachmittag sind wir dann gemeinsam mit Miton (aus London) ein bisschen in Mexico City herumgestrollt - in die Mall und in einen großen Park.

      Meine ersten Eindrücke sind besser und entspannter als erwartet. Leider können wirklich nur wenige englisch sprechen hier. Und ich bin jetzt im Besitz einer Wasserflasche mit inkludiertem Lautsprecher - auch mal was anderes.
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    • Day 5

      Mercado Medellín, Avenida Reforma.

      April 17 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

      Wie man sieht, haben wir unsere Art Mexiko City zu entdecken. Spazieren, Märkte, Parks, gutes Essen. Wir waren also erst wieder in unserem Park haben da ein „Audiorama“ entdeckt, indem nur eine begrenzte Anzahl von Leuten darf, absolute Ruhe herrscht und leise Musik läuft. Und das mitten in einer Großstadt von circa 25 Millionen Einwohnern. Danach sind wir in den Mercado Medellín, super typisch mexikanisch. Obst, Tacos, Schmuck, Stoffe, Fleisch (das so abartig stinkt), Fische, Hamster, Mäuse haha, alles ganz normal. Danach wieder Karten gespielt im Park und am Abend noch in ein anderes Viertel.
      An unserem letzten Tag in Mexiko City sind wir in eine sehr bekannte Straße gelaufen „Avenida paseo de la Reforma“. Das ist die längste Straße durch die Stadt, mit 38km. Die Bushaltestelle heißt da übrigens „Hamburgo“ (Hamburg). Da sind wir zur Abkühlung in eine Shopping Mall, aber ja ist so gar nichts für und, also wieder raus und über diverse Märkte zurück in unseren Park. Kurzer Stopp beim Friseur 😜

      Und jetzt! Genug Stadt, vamos a la playa! 🌊
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    • Day 3

      Centro histórico y Catedral de mexico 🏰

      April 15 in Mexico ⋅ ☁️ 23 °C

      Centro histórico mit der Kathedrale von Mexiko. Unglaublich schöne und riesige Gebäude. Ein Museum nach dem anderen und dieses Viertel ist einfach sehr sehr überfüllt und laut, außerdem ist alles voll mit Polizei. Macht dann also bei 33 Grad nicht so viel Spaß durch Menschenmassen zu laufen, aber ist auf jeden Fall sehenswert!
      Zurück wieder in unser Viertel, das so grün und gepflegt ist, man läuft um die Ecke und da ist der nächste Park. 🌴🌿🍃
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    • Day 45

      Mexico City

      June 3, 2022 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

      During the Aztec period, Mexico City was initially built over a lake, the Lago de Texcoco. Aztecs built an artificial island by dumping soil into the lagoon. Later, the Spaniards erected a second Mexico City on top the ruins of Tenochtitlán. Tenochtitlán was founded in 1325 A.D. by the Mexicas.

      Because of its construction on that lake, Mexico City is constantly sinking slowly. Some areas of the city have dropped more than nine meters in the last 100 years.

      I didn't feel the city's sinking, though the high altitude, since its elevation is on ~2.200m wich made it harder for me to breath.
      Cesar picked me up from the gigantic bus station and showed me around the city center.
      He is professionally organising hiking and climbing trips, so he asked me if I wanted to go on this trip to the highest volcano in the region. Porqué no, I said to myself and even asked my friend Silvana to join us.
      In the end we were 5 people driving 3 hours to Nevado de Toluca.
      The special was that we hiked the Vulcano at night to see the sun rising from the top (~4.400m). We wore warm jackets, helmets, headlamps, sticks, gloves and good shoes (wich I bought in the afternoon at decathlon for ~20€), so the adventure could begin.
      We walked in a constant tempo up and made breaks every now and then. It became harder and harder to breath since we came up higher. The sky was full of thousands of stars and you could see the milky way very clearly.
      At 4 in the morning and after around 3 hours of hike I started questioning myself: "Why do I do this? I always hated these walks! Can we please return..."
      Somehow I managed to fight my lack of willpower and kept on fighting. At some point we came to path were it was a more climbing than walking what I liked more and from there it was only a half more hour to the top.
      We made it right on time and found ourselves a windproof cave in the rocks. We unpacked our sandwiches and watched the sun rise.
      An undescribable feeling, being there on top of the world. We could enjoy the view for half an hour until it got too cold. It was under 0* C and the wind was whipping our faces, so we started our way down, wich aswell wasn't very easy.
      It was amazing though seeing the landscape around us for the first time after the complete darkness.
      After 4 hours up and three down we made it to our car and drove back to finally get some sleep 🥱

      The next day Silvana took me with her and her dog Lobo to see the beautiful districts of Coyoacan and Roma Sur/Norte.
      We strolled all day around had all the different kinds of street food.

      On Monday, my last day in Latino America, I met my friend Melody wich was one of my first yoga students in Puerto Escondido and we did a session in a park in La Condesa.
      In the evening Cesar, Silvana and me went out for dinner and had RICO Mexican cuisine.
      When we brought Silvana home, I had to pee strongly so I facilitated myself next to a tree, when Cesar suddenly screamed: "NINO, STOP! STOP!"
      I stopped, but it was too late and a police car saw me there....
      Two cops came out, searched all our stuff, mumbled something from a fee of 3.500 Pesos (175€) and that I had to come with to the police station.
      It was already late 1:30am and I had to be at 4:00 at the airport to catch my flight to Miami, so definitely no time for a police station visit.
      Silvana tried to convince them with all she got, when Cesar noticed that they smell like alcohol. He told us in a Quiet moment and when one cop requested me for the 5th time to now get into the car, Silvana turned up and told them: "Either you take us to the station and I will tell your supervisor that you drank in your shift or you take these 500 Pesos (25€) and get the fuck out of here!"
      After short consideration they reluctantly took the money and drove off. 😅😅😅😅😅
      We couldnt believe our luck and drove home happy af.
      I packed my stuff, took an UBER to the airport and got safe and sound into the plane were I had a hole line of seats for myself. So I slept the three hours like a baby until I wake up in the United States of America 🇺🇸
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    • Day 21

      Centro Historico de Mexico City

      May 4 in Mexico ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C

      This morning, Sheryl and I arrived at our 10th floor apartment to discover that the building is under renovation/reconstruction for major earthquake damage. We are hoping that the earth stays still for our stay. We had a scheduled murals tour at noon so we unpacked and headed out.

      Oscar took us first to the Diego Rivera Museum which is really just one mural. It is one heck of a mural - it is a very detailed history lesson of Mexico. He took us through all the leaders, personalities and meanings of each of the subjects depicted. Of course, as it is Rivera, the subjects are about class struggles and political corruption. Mexico is thick with both. If you make it to Mexico City, please do hire yourself a guide who can tell you what you are looking at. It was fascinating.

      Next stop were the murals in the Museo de Bellas Artes. Here you see the three main artists that dominated the murals movement: Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Each had iconic and gorgeous murals here. They each used their canvasses to express themes of Mexican stories and history. Again, the explanations and stories told by our guide were invaluable in helping us really enjoy/love these immense works.

      Diego Rivera’s most prominent mural was originally designed as a commission from the Rockefellers in New York. It prominently displayed Lenin as a hero. Rockefeller paid Rivera for his time and then destroyed it completely. My question is, What were they thinking? It was going to be bunch of flowers and butterflies? In any case, he redid the mural here in Mexico City with an addition of Rockefeller on the “evils” side of the mural. Again, this mural is full of recognizable characters and highly political meaning.

      Don’t miss these murals if you do come here.

      Gail arrived this afternoon with some Mexican pesos from some trip she took back in the 1980s. They were 1,000 and 10,000 peso notes. Well, sometime in the 1990s these bills were devalued by removing the last 3 digits, so instead of 23,000 pesos, we were looking at 23 - or about a buck fifty USD. We were off to a good start with a big laugh.
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    • Day 110

      Coyoacan walking tour

      February 19, 2020 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      This morning we took an uber (of course so we could pack and have more sleep lol 😂) to the beautiful Coyoacan neighbourhood, home to the rich and the famous Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Apparently alot of famous stars of Mexican TV live in this area, and so makes since why it would cost around 1.5million dollors to buy just a small place here 😳😱 alot of people that live here though have had the houses in the family for generations, so that's how alot of normal people can afford to here too. The area has a very bohemian atmosphere with lots of small coffee, and cake shops with a beautiful town centre with alot of history around. We also took a visit to some of the gardens, which some are unnone to the mexicans visting the neighbourhood, as most tourist stick to the main centre of the town.Read more

    • Day 1–3

      Coyoacan, Mexico City

      January 1 in Mexico ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

      So after a long flight and a long day (6 hours longer than normal due to the time zones) we arrived safely in Mexico City. This is a mega city with a population of 22.2 million so we picked the quiet suburb of Coyoacan for our first two days to allow us to settle in.

      This area has a bohemian and hipster vibe with plenty of street entertainers, local food and markets and interesting architecture.

      The area is most famous for being the home of celebrated Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her husband the muralist Diego Rivera. We visited her childhood home where she stayed much of her short life. Called Casa Azul (blue house) it had lovely grounds and provided rich insight into her challenging life and the art it fuelled.

      We then went to the Leo Trotsky museum, the house where he lived in exile from Stalinist Russia, suffered multiple assassination attempts before he was eventually murdered (with an ice axe).

      We spent the rest of the day exploring the streets, market and did some birding in the local park. Because this is a new country for us most of the birds were brand new. Of the 18 species we identified 16 were life ticks. Highlights were the small Ladder-Backed Woodpecker and the brilliant red Summer Tanager.

      Tomorrow we are heading to Valle de Bravo for a few days (a 3 hour bus ride) to see the Monarch Butterflies.
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