We had already booked our hostel in Mexico City and read the news of taxi companies ripping people off on arrival to Mexico City, yet as it was late and we only had mostly nasty rumours of the 20 million odd people city, so we didn't have too much of an option. We forked out for an expensive cab which in fairness did drop us off right at the door and avoided the usual sweaty trek lugging our luggage across town.
Mexico was straight away apparently much more westernized than most of South America had been with numerous malls, recognisable fast food joints and an endless supply of police cars at every street corner.
We had only given ourselves a day in the capital and as we started to explore the following morning, it became apparent that it would require a lot longer to see all the sights of this vibrant city. For the most part the neighbourhoods that we visited seemed safe. We concentrated out visit on the Anthropological Museum which had an incredibly vast collection of artifacts from all Central American indigenous tribes including the Mayans and the Mexicas (Aztecas). I must make note here of the incredible building that holds the museum contents and the incredible cantilevered roof structure (see photo).
We then headed on to the Museum of Modern art and saw an interesting array of colourful if not confusing art. We were by now getting slightly museumed out so we spent the final hours of daylight hunting down a shop where we could use a Mac to backup our photos. Somewhere along the road both our hard drive and our memory card had picked up a virus and were no longer working on PCs. Thank god for Macs which are not susceptible to such things. However after a fair hunt we had only limited success before we joined the 4 million people who use public transport in Mexico City every day and crammed onto the Metro to return to our hostel.
That night was mostly uneventful apart from meeting a few tequila loving frenchies who pushed us to drink probably more than we should have before heading off at 6am for our flight to Puerto Escondido.
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