- MEXICO CITY

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Lodging

In the city of Mexico is an enormous amount of hotels, inns, houses of guests, shelters, etc. The main problem to choose one between as much variety resides in the zone in which it is wanted to live because the city of Mexico has an extension incredibly is enough. In most of the zones it is not adapted to settle for which just it arrives at the city unless it has some well-known that guides it in its installation, if it is not thus, the zones are reduced ahsta to be left a few basdicamente where usually the travellers arrivan by themselves. In center historical, they probablemten but the recommendable one if it is that one thinks to be during short time, because although is somewhat noisy and has some aprtes somewhat dangerous (already we will treat these you limit in another section) in general is a zone with a great amount of security and where it is possible to walk, even at night in alguans streets as it is possible to be done in many other cities of the world. But mainly, my recommendation is because in the picture of the Historical Center encontra a great amount of services and Mexican cultural elements that are quite interesting to know on the part of the traveller. Museums, murals, galleries, bars, seats, ruins, etc. The prices vary of about 120 Mexican pesos (100 USD) until several thousands of pesos by uan night. Normally it exists an extensive variety of small hotels that usually walk by the 200 - 300 daily USD, but is options to share and thus to lower the price of it. One can be provided with accomodations in a cheap option and be left to eat to a the street by a few dollars to the day, also are small called bars bars where beer by a dollar can be taken and, sometimes to know people interesting, although in most of the cases the boarded sera traveller by “ligadores” of foreigners (you), but the zone is safe in general.

Another zone that frequently is used by the travellers, although these usually are but of the type “tourist”, it is coyoacan, that is towards the south of the city, at about 10 kilometers of the Historical Center and at where can be arrived by Meter and be walked a little or taking a local transport. Coyoacan is a zone of high middle-class where it is lived on comfortable although expensive way. The houses and the parks of the place are pleasant, without emabargo people usually are somewhat heavy because they have the clumsy idea to think that to live automatically she turns them there sophisticated or cultured beings, completely false thing. Then if somebody wishes to stay in this place tendra that to normally conciderar a minimum price of 300 USD in ahead by a room in some surely architectonic pleasant sera house which.

There is a zone similar to the previous one and that not this delimited clearly because it includes/understands but of a colony but which podria to be located like the zone Rome-countess, where many of the foreigners settle which estudo or pleasure residiran in Mexico during some time, by work, is a colony like they coyoacan well designed, with some history and all the services. Only the two disadvantages that I observe are, firstly the price, are just as in coyoaca or even a little greater in the case of the colony countess. Second, the people who usually live frequently have tendency to snobbismo or the conservadurismo, not all by all means, but this encuetra with enough frequency…

Many other places exist where it is possible to be installed to live in the city, but by its access or lack of promotion usually they are outside the reach of the tourist and of the traveller, nevertheless but ahead we will comment but on these other options.

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Interesting places to take a drink in the City of Mexico

That there is, I suppose, thousands of places in a city like this but voya to be giving to my suggestions thinking about his peculiarities, accessibility and security, and by all means good, as main criteria their orginalidad or its capacity would seran to show of particular maneral aspects of the Mexican culture.

Plaza Garibaldi. This is within the Historical Center, is a place where rtadicionalmente people are going to listen to mariachis, the well-known Mexican musicians. It is a medium seat where several groups of musicians, in addition to mariachis, there are northern jarochos and, they are touching according to the client requests music. Around the seat there are commerce that sells spirits and food, also a pair of “discs”. The prices are but high that those of the recommendable street and days are especialemnte then then Friday and Saturday there is but people. He is interesting for the traveller who uqiere to observe some guidelines of conduct of the Mexican society, specially aquelals which nocturnal public occur in places. Personally I believe that it is good at least once for visiting it during awhile, for taking a beer and for walking a little. Nevertheless several precautions must be taken, is a place of high risk, that is to say, when but at night interesting. Although there is police monitoring, the police in Mexico as we already know are extremely corrupt, so the visitor of his is not due to trust much presensia, although to be alert due to this. Usually there are assaults and robberies very frequently. There is much people treating to bind to foreigners and foreigners by sex, money or life expectancies, is in fact people who dedicate themselves almost of “professional” way to this practices, so precaution, although sure that deprendera of which this looking for in fact! , no. Precausion also conlos foods, is not recommendable to consume those that can constitute risgos because some with decomposition signs usually are sold.

On the other hand to arrive at the site it is necessary to walk all right on the sidewalk of the avenue Lazaro Cardenas, that is Central Axis, can be gone one walking from the central building of Post office to the seat, but there is to be careful specially a pair of blocks before arriving at the seat because it is a zone marginalized with much people in the streets, thus is not necessary to take valuable things economically. To the return it is necessary to reinforce the precaution and nonrecomendaria I to be in the seat beyond 11 or 12 at night.

Bar El Nivel. In the corner of Constitution aquare ( Zocalo), to a side of the archaeological zone of the "Templo Mayor". It shows the fame of being the first bar of the City of Mexico, and first in “aroma” diria I. It is worth the trouble to know it by evocacion a piece of history the city, but the service is very bad, always want to receive of but the meseros and are not of but cheap, that if he is dirty and maloliente.

Kloster bar. Republic of Cuba is in the street, to two or tress streets of the socle, just where it tourist divides to the safe part of the Historical Center and the zone where begins to be dangers, but it is even possible to be visited without greater problems, specially in the evening. This place is back of the Assembly of Representatives of the DF, that is something as well as the House of Representatives of the DF, and is a small, stinking site. .menos that the Level! but that has two enchantments that make me recommend it, the first beer is of but cheap of the city the 1 USD each one, and second usually has, mainly Fridays, a peculiar hybrid atmosphere, sometimes usually are people of press, or some artists, also a ball of travestis suddenly, and all this has contributed to make it an extremely common place between the people who look for “alternative” places, so perhaps she is worth the trouble to occur a return that way to know it. Eye, the baths are terrible.

In the street of Chile between Cuba and Donceles, there are some 2 places relatively interesting to have a beer, cheap places which are being transformed to offer space to the new people who is viviting the Historical Center, this is the mexican middle class. Anyway, it is still possible to find in those places remains of the old center folk which under the new policies for this part of the city, gradually are being expelled to other areas.Those places are ok for having a beer that can cost around 1 USD and last opened until 1 or 2 in the morning.

Other place which is kind of known by some young travellers to have a beer at night in the Center is the place in the building of the International Hostels chain, which is in Guatemala street, in back ( almost! ) of main Cathedral, since it is a youth hostels there are some times a nice atmosphere to chat and exchange information about Mexico, but of course can be very poor to offer a real feeling of mexican people, besides sometimes it can be annoying for the visitor the big quantity of blond chasers who go to that place precisely because the above mentioned reasons..


Around DF, interesting and easy places to visit in one day

Teotihuacan

There is a great amount of places around the DF to visit, as much if it is desired to know where the clasemedieros usually pass their holidays or week ends, like on the other hand, places of much interest for that wishes to urgar deep in the Mexican culture, are single question to have a little patience to locate the sites and to dedicate some days to him. or but if it can. in order to have a very good idea, better than the one than they have many inhabitants of this zone, of the historical and natural sites that surround to the City of Mexico. Next, not by archaeological, artistic, gastronomical, naturalistic order of importance if as I go away decided go several places, and they do not remember that my criterion to identify its importance is historical, ecological or cultural in general, I feel it, normally I do not pay attention much to places for “party”, but that insurance found it in some other Web…

Teotihuacan: The most important archaeological site, first of spectacular characteristics to which the visitor has access if she is arrived at Mexico by airplane and the City of Mexico. One is to about 50 kilometers of this city and to between one and average and two hours of way doing it by Meter and soon line bus, enough but fast s is made by automobile. The cost in the economic version (meter-bus) is of about 30 pesos of going and the same of return, 2 pesos of Meter and the others of the line bus. “Tours” are also many that announce in the inns or hotels of the city but I have listened and known of concrete people that the terrible service is very frequent that offers these, surely she must have some good agencies, but I have not known them, in short, I recommend to become by Meter and bus, is enough safe if goes away and returns to good hours (between the 9 in the morning and the 4 of afternoon preferredly) the general training that to my works to me is the following one: to arrive by Meter at the station of the Central Meter of the North that is in the yellow line that Mexican Institute of Petroleo runs of the Pantitlan station to the station, already in the central station of the North, leaves one the side that sees the bus-station, like is a line that runs at level of the ground peude to watch itself from before leaving of which side appears the terminal, is no confusion some. arriving front at the station and entering by the fore door, one is due to go towards the hand left and until practimaente the end of the counters, there, one or two counters before I complete leera the name of some small lines, one of them she says “Teotihuacan”, she asks themselves and immediately one young lady indicated as sonlos tickets, the cost must be around about 30 pesos simple. The buses leave every 20 minutes approximately, and there same they indicated the site where they were approached, that is around where ticket is bought. It is always necessary to ask but of once the personnel of the bus if he is ql that leaves IN the ARCHAEOLOGICAL ZONE, in the entrance door (in the pavement) because there are other buses. that normally they do not leave there. .que “they happen” through teotihuacan and if one is taken from them habra qu to ecaminar and peude to be enough in the lost one from the way for that it does not know it, so it is worth but to make sure that it leaves within the archaeological zone, and before lowering to ask where exactly. to per exactly! . the one was taken from return, because the same they pass several buses that can go towards the city but that other esatciones can arrives ra from the Meter or even not to arrive at station some, has ask until it is very sure we remember that a frequent characteristic of the Mexicans is the lack of exactitude for many things, for the information is one of them. The passage lasts but or enos one hour, when arriving is the entrance, there personal of the archaeological zone dara a ticket that must cost about a 35-40 Mexican pesos, about 4 dollars, there is no discount for students if they do not have the international credential, and that, sometimes not even this respects for the discount, another thing, Sundays the museums and archaeological zones are free, if, but for the Mexicans, so of all ways it is paid, although sometimes usually are flexible and it is possible to be acceded even being foreign without paying, but not in Teotihuacan and not frequently. There is guide who rents their service inside, I I better recommend to read a little before, to inquire and to make route one same. To take to a good water bottle and something to cover the head because the sun can be fuertisimo…

Tepotzotlan

“To only 40 kilometers of the city of Mexico, by the freeway to Querétaro, it is located Tepotzotlán, population that despite so large reduced his is recognized world-wide and constitutes a legitimate pride for the mexiquenses. Tepotzotlán lodges one of more important works of art of the virreinal period: the ex- convent of beginners of the Jesuits, with its beautiful temple dedicated to San Francisco Javier. In that space, today turned the National Museum of the Virreinato, masterpieces of the art of centuries xvi, xvii and xviii are exposed. The Jesuit noviciado one, founding on 1586, were declared national monument in 1933 and little later the care of the National Institute of Antropología had left and Historia.La facade of the temple, white quarry, has been called “the refulgente jewel of the crown of the Mexican churrigueresco art”, and it is characterized by the ornamental wealth of the statures with religious and artistic reasons. Inside the ex- convent there is a incalculable number of paintings, statures of wood, ivories, lacquers, orfebrería, religious ceramics, ornamentos, arms and armors of the colonial time. In addition to the temple of San Francisco Javier, the conventual set account with several chapels and claustros, or patios, and an orchard that transports to us to the past, to the atmosphere of the virreinato, and at the same time calls us to the withdrawal… “Taken from: www.mexicodesconocido.com



Acolman

“One of the most showy sets of the be in favor of its size and architectonic design. It was constructed by the agustinos friars between 1539 and 1560 following the strength style so characteristic of century XVI. Its facade, to the bottom of a great quadrangular vestibule, is made up of the cover of the temple finished off by one espadaña, an annexed open chapel and portería of the convent. The cover constitutes one of the most admirable examples of the plateresca architecture of the time, by the beauty as much of its columns and of the decorative details in friso and the arc of the door, like of the sculptures that finish off friso and that flank two musical angels, and of the window of the choir. The interior of the temple surprises by the height of its walls; the ship conserves rest of some baroque altarpieces of good invoice and in presbiterio interesting painting samples are noticed murals with images of agustinos saints, priests and Popes. The annexed convent account with two claustros, one small one of simple architecture, and main or claustro great, that exhibits a beautiful architecture of plateresco style with columns carved and finished off in the low part by stone spheres. In the spaces between the arcs of claustro under a series of stone engravings can be seen with allusive scenes the Passion of Christ and monogramas of Jesus and the Virgin. The walls of claustro high conserve excellent painting samples mural with scenes that remember the Passion and death of Christ. In this same level it is acceded to the opened chapel, in whose main wall a painting with the image of Santa Catherine of Alexandria is observed. “Taken from: www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx


Note: The convent this abrierto of Tuesday to Sunday of 10 in the morning to 5 of afternoon. The site is to about 40 kilometers to the northeast of the city of Mexico and it is possible to be arrived taking the bus that goes to towards teotihuacan…


Malinalco

“Malinalco is to the south of the State from Mexico to 70 km of the city of Toluca and to only two hours and average of route in automobile from the City of Mexico. It throughout enjoys the year a moderate and humid warm climate that it has attracted several residents of the Mexican capital which they have established his houses of weekend in this place. The history of Malinalco is extremely old and it goes back to preHispanic times to the salary populated by the cultures teotihuacana, tolteca, matlazintla and Aztec. Of these two last cultures, still a most important archaeological site, located lasts in the top of the Hill of the Ídolos to the west of the town. To this place the horsemen went eagle to make esoteric rites for their initiation like Aztec soldiers. In this archaeological site we can locate several constructions, being most excellent, the “House of the Eagles and the Tigers”, a pyramid - temple carved directly on the stone of the slope of the mountain. This space around whose door one is represented the mouth of a serpent, symbolized for the pre-Hispanic soldiers the doors of the Mictlan or infraworld, where after entering and making all a series of ceremonies and magical rituals, they returned to the world of the alive ones turned the legendary horsemen eagles of the mexicas armies. Underneath the Hill of the ídolos the town of Malinalco, same rests that was of first in being colonized by the Spaniards to its arrival to Mexico in century XV. Testimony of it is the chapel of Santa Monica and the Temple of the Divine Salvador, emphasizing this last one by the beautiful accomplishment of their annexed convent, exconvento of the Transfiguración, same that counts on a beautiful central patio flanked with arcs, following the traditional scheme of this type of constructions in the New Spain, but with all the ceilings and inner walls covered by beautiful murals to fresh with baroque reasons that they represented the more important vegetal species for the natives of the region, which constitutes one of the first artistic samples of the Mexican cultural mestization. Also in the entrance of of this magnificent enclosure one is a well-taken care of garden with own species of the place and beautiful stone walls, to which the time has given one slides dark that gives enhancement to the place…”
Taken from: www.ciudadmexico.com.mx/cercanias/malinalco.htm



Tepoztlan

Here ue is some information found in the network relative to loq can be seen in this place very near the DF: “THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ZONE OF THE TEPOZTECO. Antigüo pre-Hispanic portable altar, dedicated to the God “Ometochtli Tepuztécatl”. One is in the top of the hill of he himself name and from this place great part of the landscape can be appreciated tepozteco. One says that here was ídolo Ometochtli, whose fragments can be appreciated in the Museum of Pre-Hispanic Art “Carlos Pellicer Camera” .EL EX-CONVENTO OF the NATIVIDAD. This old construction dates from Century XVI, fué construída under the orders of Dominican friars who got at Tepoztlán to evangelizar. In addition to which “Patrimony of the Humanity” has been declared, also it lodges to the “Museum and Center of Historical Documentation of Tepoztlán”. The ex--convent comprises of the Parish of the Natividad, in center of Tepoztlán.LA PARISH OF the NATIVIDAD. Old building that dates from Century XVI, is next to the Ex--convent and together they form an important building that excels in Tepoztlán. The main religious festividad of this church is carried out the 8 of September, together with the celebrations of the Challenge to the Tepozteco. The parish also has an ample vestibule in which are 4 “chapels you put” in each corner and a atrial cross whose ends finish in form of lily flower, emblem characteristic of the Order of the Dominicos.MUSEO Friars OF PRE-HISPANIC ART “CARLOS PELLICER”. This small but interesting museum arose thanks to the well-known poet and anthropologist tabasqueño from he himself name, that lived in Tepoztlán, being as well as it decided to donate his collection of archaeological pieces to be protected “Like arriving in bus from the DFDesde the City of Mexico, is necessary to take the bus (Pullman de Morelos or Cristóbal Columbus) in the Terminal from the South (Tasqueña Station of the System of Collective Transport Meter) the route is of 1 hour with 10 minutes approximately, although also a bus can be taken from the Red line Star, but it is necessary to descend in the collection house of Tepoztlán, to approach a taxi or to walk until the center of Tepoztlán.Desde Cuernavaca Morelos, the truck of the line of transports “Ometochtli” is approached, in the Market “Adolph Lopez Mateos”, who is to 5 blocks of the Socle and Palace of Government. The time of trip is of 45 minutes.
Taken from: www.tepoz.com.mx



Oxtotipac

San Nicholas Oxtoticpac: “A sum of surprises hopes that visits this singular architectonic work erected by the smaller friars. Most excellent claustro is his, since unlike that they impose by his height, this it is distinguished by his smallest dimensions, which makes very cosy. How the tiny size of claustro is justified. dwarfed friars or constructors? , the franciscana poverty? , shortage of materials or manual labor? , proportions of the pre-Hispanic platform where was constructed? , short space to lay the foundations in a cavernous subsoil. Anyway, this site was not a permanent house for the beggars, they only came from visit for the liturgical celebrations and a minimum space was sufficient to rest or to spend the night in necessary case. The Oxtotipac term means “on the cave”. “Cave” is derived from oztotl and of Icpac “it raises”. Formerly, the site was important by its mines of tezontle. Nicholas de Bari, santo patrono of temple, in addition to to be lawyer of children, druggists, sailors and young people of marriageable age among others, it was also of miners, as much that the Germans baptized to nickel with that name that derives from nickel and Nickolaus, that is to say, Nicholas.”
Taken from: http://www.mexicodesconocido.com



Xochicalco

Xochicalco, Morelos: “The archaeological zone of Xochicalco is located to the southwest of the state of Morelos, to 38 kilometers of the city of Cuernavaca. The wagon number 95 Mexico-Acapulco is taken until arriving at the deviation towards Alpuyeca, before finding the lagoon the Roundup it will find the state highway that will take to Xochicalco.quiere to say it “In the place of them house of the flowers”, is located on a hill set of low height, the main ones are the Warehouse, the Malinche and Xochicalco; this one last one, was made level to construct the most important buildings, the slopes had to be modified to allow the construction of houses and to conform a succession of terraces that prevented the free access to the site.” Taken from: www.cnca.gob.mx/cnca/inah/zonarq/xochica.html



Alchichica

Alchichica: “In this place is a great river basin formed by the drainings of the volcano of the Malinche. As well, a great water body forms here that resembles a lagoon. Its depth is not great and varies in agreement with the time, because the bottom, of limestone rock, absorbs the water frequently. The bordering landscape is formed by rocks and a semidesert climate vegetation, which confers to the place a strange appearance to him. About 10 km to the south, by the population of Chichicuautla, will be able to see other two small lagoons: Preciosa and Quechulac; both are known like Alapascos, that is lagoons formed from a volcanic cone. Lava which they contained thousand or million ago years reached an underground water level and exploded, forming a great flooded crater. Some ajalapascos do not have bottom and their waters can contain great concentrations of salts and minerals. One is to 109 km to the northeast of the city of Puebla, by the federal highway of quota núm.150 D. Deviation to the left by the highway núm. 140 to Perote. ”
Original note: www.mexicodesconocido.com.mx