Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Day 4: Last day in Mexico City

..Oh yes it already has arrived. Today was our last day in Mexico City. We started out the day at usual local time - yes we are still not really sleeping well :(

I started the day by packing the lugagge as tidy as I could..and I hell it is already heavy, im sure my luggage is already overweight :S. Untill now I dont recall a place where we have been and didn't buy anything..everything is cheap :P. Then we had our breakfast as usual and took it easy while Steve was doing a load of dirty laundry...which we found all dirty becuase someone (99% steve) has forgot a packet of tissues..haha it was like our clothes had been dragged in snow :P

After that we had absolutely no idea what to do..we decided to just go around and explore some more...and set out towards the direction of the National Mesuem of Modern Art which we visited once there. The exhibits where of the artiste El Greco (for me it was like wtf!? but steve knew) and there were other really modern exhibits: Murales which I cannot describe in words..very nice would be not giving them enough credit. One of the artists was Diego Rivera - the husband of Fridah Kahlo...what a family.

After this it was back to being 'nomads' and kept on walking and walking on the quest to find a Fuji battery..but this seems to be inexistent over here...we gave up and went to eat at a very traditional palce: Burger King...now I know the people who work with us are saying 'how is steve surviving on a diet? what is he doing at burger king?' haha but yes..oh well but guys i have proof - steve eating a burger I even took pictures so you would believe me...

..Again we had no idea what to do after lunch and we decided to visit the place called Chapultepec..we thought that a touribus would definately take us there and after the park we could keep killing time around the city. We found what looked like a sign of the touribus (on the side of a roundabout) with no stop or anything and sat down there on the curb..waiting and waiting until finally one passed..and KEPT ON GOING..coming to think of it later it definately is not a place where to pikup and drop off toursits lol..so we went on a bus stop hoping for some luck...asking some people who btw no one knows english here we were trying to make out something in spanish..they told us that if we go to Chupalptec we could catch it there...it sounded that we hit two birds with one stone..and road the first bus which they told us which said Auditorio which of course - we have no idea were it is.on our way we were asking people where we should stop and they were telling us like 3 stops to go when steve said 'that looks like it' and grabbing the moment we just stopped there..for our luck IT WAS the park and not only did we spend a few hours there we stayed till the park closed..it is HUGE..im sure we burnt our million calorie breakfast + the burger during the day..It is so big that in it there is a zoo, a lake a castle and god know wht else..after some relax time over the lake we decided to head voer the zoo but the only place in the zoo we managed to visit was the buttefly place where we went into this tropical-heated room full of live butteflies flying around us..a nice experience :) as soon as we got out of here the guards where pressing us on the road towards as it was closure time..which road however didnt lack of nice animals..mainly birds...

Family members please dont read this part: when we got out of the park we were in this area which didnt make us feel at easy..at all..we were terriffied, and even though we were dead tired we were walking double pace towards a familiar direction untill we got to a main road which felt quite safe...thank god the first bus which passes was the one for our hostel area and we managed to get here safely...we are currently so tried that steve doesnt have energy to speak..he is literally SILENT...which is unbelievable i know :)

The experience I would like to share from today is how different a few metres, or an adjcent road, may be..from a road wich looked like an a homeless peoples place to the road exactly opposit to it with SKYSCRAPERS and policemen and architectures and full of rich-citizen life with signs saying Ciudad Sigura (safe city)...amazing how in a few paces the community can be so different...

Now I'm dead tired and starting to get hungry again..in a few minutes off to some more walking to see what food is going to satisfy our appetite of exploring...after that its towards the Tapo (east) bus station to our 6-hours (stuff your jelousy lol) bus tour towards the next destination Oaxaca :)

I hear you say..what was their dinner today...so for those wondering here it goes:
we simply ate tacos tonight with:
Beef,
Sausage, (veryyy good)
Pig, (so good)
Cow nose,
Cow cheek,
Cow tongue,
Cow back of tongue,
and of course cow brains.

the way to the shop was amazingly fun..another Barunata..however this will be supplied on demand...dont feel like writing it..I'm tired..zzz..zz

1 comment:

  1. Heyyyy everybody. Yepp I confirm all the above. It should have been a day where nothing should happen but instead ended up....tired like hell and hungry.....well we are always hungry haha :))!!!

    Mexico city has definitely proven to be a big surprise. The nicest part of it is definitly the constant meeting up of new people, from differnet countries, different cultures which simply make every trip different.

    Speaking spanish....jiena mǵhandix idea....but sometimes gesticulating is enough...well we are getting along with the Mexicans very well actually :))

    Off to food now....ghandna l-guh :P!!

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