24 hours in Mexico City

24 hours in Mecico City

... exploring the 20 million people giant!

Back in the times when I went to school I had some -not many- but defenitly some favorite subjects. I gotta admit most of them featured the funniest, craziest or simply most attractive teachers at my school which made the subject more interesting itself. Geography was defenitly one of the 'attractive-teacher' ones! Anyhow he really did catch my attention - not only with his sexappeal, also with what he was telling us. I fell in love with the variaty on our beutiful earth. We got to know a lot about many countries, their food and people. 

Today I am still very concicous about the many cultures I am able to visit throughout my job. I am one of the lucky people that gets to travel around a lot and therefore I finally get to see all the coultres I knew on the paper in real life. Mexico City has actually been one of the most exciting places for me to see. The city is not known for any huge building or special places in first hand - but it feautres so so so sooooo many people living around the city center. When you get the chance to visit the city by plane - or even just take a taxi a little out of town - you get to see a ginormeous field of colorful housing. It seems to be an endless field of houses giving shelter to all these people who try to be as close to the city center as possible. 

What many people do not know is that Mexico City itself is way more industrialised than any area around. While many of the less developed countries show a huge difference in city-country-areas, Mecico City is seriously putting it all to the next level! Some of the capitals laws don't reach the outer countries within even two years. The case of gay marriage and pornographic cinemas, both more than legal in the center, are still not always allowed ot of town.

While Mexicans seem to be very conservative they are also holding on to many traditional habits such as traditional festives. Fun fact over here: the Mexicans themselves do not celebrate cinco de Mayo! It defenitly is an american holiday moresoever.

What the Mexicans do like to celebrate is Independence Day - September 16th. That usually was the day when the Mexican independence war started. There is a whole lot more to talk about starting with the mexican history but I seriously suggest you go ahead and go on the free walking tour! But let me start at the beinning of all events, aka. beginning of the day, aka. breakfast! 

 

As you may or may not follow my instagram you should've noticed that while I am travelling around I seriously loooove love love hotel breakfast. I love breakfast foods in general but hotels usually always have it all. It's heaven as a buffet. The hotel breakfast at Mexico City brings it all to a whole new level - Like when I hear I will be going to Mexico that month the first thing I can think of is BREAKFAST BUFFET! I am not kidding you guys you need to take the chance to try mexican breakfast foods! They are very originel, a little different yet very simple - just amazing!

With our stomachs all filled up my colleagues and I were finally off to the city center which can easily be reached by the subway. This not only may be an easy but also very affordable way to get to places. However it is defenitly not the safest way of traveling. If you are around with females only take advantage of the womens' part and don't use the underground when it got dark out already. While the underground travels only costed us around $ 0.20 per route the same way using a taxi might be around $5 if you split the check - so not too bad either.

As mentioned before we took part in a free walking tour. The tour gets off daily at around 11 (Mexican timing) in the morning and should take around 1.5 to 2 hours. After all we almost reached the three hour mark. Sounds pretty boring you think walking around for hours talking about history? Not at all I am telling you! Our guidance Diana did a great job! She was telling us all about history, Mexican people back than and today, problems, hopes and economics. Diana is a really smart girl giving a lot of detailed information about random stuff in perfect english within seconds. The tour was also offered in spanish. Plenty of times our guide tried to give us suggestions where to go, what to do, eat and drink while being in the city. This is why I would suggest you doing the tour at the beginning of your stay to have many more inspirations what to do afterwards.

If you do the free walking tour be so kind and not only leave a tip but as well a comment on their tripadvisor page.

One of the great suggestions Diana gave us was the Cafe Tacuba. After she was done with the tour we had to run straight over there to take a break and overthink all the informtion we just recieved AND relax our feet from all the walking and standing.

Cafe Tacuba is a traditional mexican reataurant cafe style on Tacuba road in the middle of the center. I would very recomment the place for a quick snack or even to go out to dinner. The food looked very amazing and was tastefully made with love.  The whole restaurant is very lovely, the servants are dressed up in a white nurse-like uniform wearing ginormeous hair bows. 

The second day breakfast was not as local as the one we had on the first day but not less good! We went to the cafe Toscano where you get freshly squeezed juice, as well as cut up fruit and continental breakfast options for little money. This place also offers a great variaty of coffe and hot drinks. 

   

My last advice for mexico city is to get your nails and eyebrows done. 

The place where I went was really

percised about doing my brows and

I have to tell I was never as satisfied

getting them done as back then - also you still do not pay a lot.

What are your favorite things to do in Mexico city? What do you like most about the town and outside the town? Let me know about your experiences!

.     .     .     Pequenos momentos, grandes recuerdos!     .     .     .