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General Warning Info

General Warning Info, Mexico City

 59 Reviews  Was there in 83. Stuck there a week as med student b/c of student Visa BS. LOTS of Rats!! Cabbies tried to rip people off go to cheap hotel in rathole hoods. Charge too much for fare. Use sitios ONLY!... 

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Transportation

Transportation, Mexico City

 41 Reviews  In mexico city i used the metro almost every day because its sometimes far easier than facing the traffic with a car. I am tall, tanned but not dark skinned and blue eyed - not your average "mexican"... 

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Food and Restaurants

Food and Restaurants, Mexico City

 15 Reviews  There's something else you should be careful with: food!! Our food is delicious, but it can be aggressive for foreigners, whose stomachs aren't used to hot stuff. So watch what you eat. This applies... 

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Other Warnings

Other Warnings, Mexico City

 22 Reviews  The hardest thing about traveling in Mexico City is keeping your feet clean while you frolic all over the city in your flip-flops. Mexico City isn't the cleanest place in the world, and as anyone who... 

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Shopping

Shopping, Mexico City

 7 Reviews  Known locally as the “witchcraft market,” the Sonora Market in Mexico City holds alot of interest for travellers because here you can find anything from soaps, powders, otions and animal skin,... 

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Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters, Mexico City

 5 Reviews  Mexico is a country prone to earthquakes - every year our planet's crust is shaking with an intensity of over 6 on the Richter scale. On January 21st 2003 an earthquake of a magnitude of 7.6 on the... 

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Danger of Earthquake

Danger of Earthquake, Mexico City

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  Much of Mexico’s volcanic and seismic activity stems from the movement of the North American plate against the Cocos and Pacific plates and it is one of the... 

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Danger of loosing your suitcase

Danger of loosing your suitcase, Mexico City

 Kuznetsov_Sergey Says:  As I have already written in my transportation tip Moscow-Mexico City flight via Paris I had only 30 minutes to change an airplane in Paris and to change a... 

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Mexico Travel Safety

Mexico Travel Safety, Mexico City

 Mariofrog101750 Says:  This email is an invitation to Virtual Tourist to become familiar with the contents ofwww.SecurityCornerMexico.com I believe it offers a unique service to... 

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Regarding weather...

Regarding weather..., Mexico City

 ciberamigo Says:  Don't trust stereotypes: Mexico City is on a tropical latitude (19 Deg. North), but weather is a combination of latitude, altitude and continentality and Mexico... 

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Take care with taxis

Take care with taxis, Mexico City

 TheWanderingCamel Says:  There are reports that the authorities are cracking down on taxi crime in Mexico City - I wouldn't be at all complacent about that. The best advice about... 

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Make-sicko City ...

Make-sicko City ..., Mexico City

 TheWanderingCamel Says:  ...as my daughter used to call it when she was younger - and Mexico City's pollution is more often than not so bad that the name really fits. Altitude is... 

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Guns

Guns, Mexico City

 sexyamerican Says:  even though guns are illegal they still make there way into the hands of the young. We were in a restaurant in Polanco firting with some senoritas when the... 

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Northern part of the city

Northern part of the city, Mexico City

 marinama Says:  An advice for everyone visiting Mexico City: Mexico is a very, very big city, so has its security problems. In wealth terms speaking, Mexico City has two parts.... 

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'See: my Tourist traps'

'See: my Tourist traps', Mexico City

 MookieStephens Says:  beware of unregistered taxis.BEWARE IN VERY CROWDED AREAS ABOUT GETTING PICK-POCKETED ESPECIALLY THE METRO. 

Top 3 Hotels in Mexico City

Four Seasons Mexico City

 6 Reviews and 217 Opinions  If you are there over the weekend, do forget to check-out the rate. We paid about US$165 excl tax... 

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Hotel Nikko Mexico

 4 Reviews and 206 Opinions  This hotel is usually preferred by businessmen traveling to Mexico City and also by high-profile... 

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Hotel Catedral

 11 Reviews and 344 Opinions  perfect location, perfect service. My room was pretty new, clean, huge flat screem, immaculate new... 

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 beware of unregistered taxis.BEWARE IN VERY CROWDED AREAS ABOUT GETTING PICK-POCKETED ESPECIALLY THE METRO. 

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Q:  Hello! Any preferences for a good street map for Mexico City. I often use the map set that is in my DK Eyewitness Guide, but... 

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A: I think the Rough Guide maps are excellent. Not sure if there is a mexico City version, though. 

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The biggest city in the world...

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 Hello everyone!! I am Mexican and live here, in my country's capital: Mexico City. During my first weeks as a VT member I built a couple of pages after a trip to Italy (and I've built many more ever... 

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Heighten your senses in Mexico City

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 Mexico City is almost as known for its crime and its pollution as it is for being the capital of Mexico and one of the world's most populated cities with well over 20 million inhabitants. After... 

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Huge Metropolis

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 Mexico city has been my home for so many years, so if you would like to visit it - please feel free to ask anything, I'm sure I'm the one. Mexico is a very beautiful country, from the very north... 

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  We started our Ruta Maya trip in Mexico City. After a 10 hours flight with KLM coming from Schiphol, Holland, we finally arrived in Mexico City. As we were coming from Europe, we did win 7 hours... 

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Mexico City, the Megalopolis.

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 This expansive city is built on the ruins of Mexico-Tenochtitlan in 1325, once the ancient capital and the center of the Aztec civilization. The City was founded on the beds of several lakes, where... 

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