Cultural Experiences, Mexico City

Fondest memory: Between the Zocalo and the Temple Mayor, you will likely find dancers dressed up Aztec warriors. Notice the chalk on the sidewalk forming Aztec symbols. It's as close as you're ever going to come to actual Aztec culture.

Fondest memory: Just outside the National Museum of Anthropology you can catch one of the performances by the Volodores. These colourfully dressed men spiral upside down from a pole 60 feet in the air while only attached by a rope around one ankle. One lucky guy gets to play a flute at the top until all members reach the bottom. This is well worth watching if you have not seen it before. They do it roughly every 15 minutes.

Favorite thing: The varied elements of this region stem partly from its history as one of the richest silver mining areas in the Spanish empire, ehere the wast wealth of the Europeans who profited from the silver stood in contrast to the men who worked the mines and the native Indian tribes who scrathed out a living here.

Favorite thing: Near the Cathedral, at Monte de Piedad, you can see a row of men. Well these men all represent different professions like electrician, painter, plumber, bricklayer . . .
So in fact it looks like a public Interim office. If you need a certain job to be done at your home, over here you can rent a handyman. I believe this is really practical.

Fondest memory: I really loved to walk around in Mexico City, and taste the smalls of the local life.

Favorite thing: People, as photography is one of my hobbies, I just love to make pictures of people. One thing, if you want to make pictures of people in Mexico, first ask this people if it is allowed to make a picture. Because it is kind of rude to start photographing as a paparazzi. Do not forget, you are not on a safari, be gentle and ask permission. (And in fact, this is not only for Mexico)

Favorite thing: Of course when you walk in a big city, you also see the not so beautiful things of our modern society, like poverty and homeless. As we passed this little park, El Jardin de la Solidaridad, we saw people camping in plastic self-made tents, our guide told us that it was kind of a demonstration of some homeless.

Favorite thing: Shopping


I did have some time to do some shopping. There are many shopping malls around the city and prices were incredibly low.

Instead of bying only one dress, I made the owner of one shop very happy by bying four or was six dresses. All staff members were bowing (this is true) when I left the store.

And how good did I feel myself knowing how little money I spent but how much I gave to that store, maybe they even closed it for the rest of the day and left home :-)!

Those dresses were totally not planned but couldn't resist!

Of course a bottle of genuine tequila but no sombrero!

Favorite thing: Between the Constitution Square and the Temple Mayor, you find the Plaza de Mayor. This is a very lively place with lot of entertainment and merchants. Amusing all day and evening is for sure. I put special a travelogue for “Plaza Mayor” as I am planning to see more entertainment over there.