Mexico City Weekend

I have returned from a fun and educational weekend in Mexico City. We left Queretaro on Saturday at 5:30 a.m. and headed towards the Piramides de Teotihuacán. We had this cute boxed breakfast in the bus and we were not even done eating when we arrived at the pyramids.
The morning was perfect, and it seemed that we were the first group to arrive because the little shops were not open yet =( We got separated into two group and our tour guide was Tonatiuh Vasquez. First stop El Templo de Quetzalcóatl, This temple is decorated with several serpent head that represented fertility and Quetzalcoatl means "el gemelo divino".

Temple Of Quetzalcoatl

We made our way to the museum of Teotihuacán. This was the first time I got to visit the museum so I was very excited. The Museum was great; it showed all types of artifacts from the Aztecs. There was so much to see and learn, there were findings of recent digs, including several tombs, with skeletons wearing necklaces of human and simulated jawbones, but with any large tour group there is never enough time to see everything.

I am proud to say that I climb the pyramid of the Sun all the way to the top, and the reward was the spectacular view of the ancient city. There is a sense of energy when you are up there knowing that thousands of years people built this magnificence pyramids without the help of our modern technology is so impressive. We also visited the Palacio de los Jaguares were the warriors gathered and some of their original murals still remain, talk about good quality of work!

After spending all morning at the pyramids, it was time for lunch. We eat at the Quinta Del Sol Hotel and the food was so good, so I got a little bit of everything. We also had a dance performance of the traditional Aztec dance. After lunch we headed back to the city to visit the Palacio Nacional.

The Palacio Nacional houses several murals done by Diego Rivera and they tell the story of Mexico is his own way, very political to say the least. Last stop was the Templo Mayor. The Templo Major was the ceremonial center at the heart of the Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan ( now Mexico City) and it was discover in 1978 during the subway excavations. This Templo was the main site for human sacrifices and there is a museum that shows the history of this place and their culture. Our tour guides continue to be outstanding throughout all the places we visited, they told us the history and importance of all the places.

court yard in the Palacio.

After a very long day we finally go to our hotel, Fiesta Americana and it was a four star hotel which was awesome especially the super comfy beds. We relaxed for a bit and then we went out to dinner to La Opera.

La Opera Restaurante

bullet hole left by Pancho Villa

La Opera is an authentic cantina that even has a bullet hole on the ceiling left by no other than Pancho Villa. They also had a little band that would come and play at your table for a fee of course. We stayed and chatted for a while but it was getting late so we decided to start walking back to the hotel. When we got back some of us were not ready to call it a night just yet, so we made our way to little place to dance and have a few beers. We didn’t stay to long because I think we were all looking forward to those comfy beds back in our rooms and we had an early start the next day.

our hotel room.