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Photo Essay: Examining Mexico City’s History on a Tour of Three Significant Sites
Blog: Girl, Unstoppable - 17 July 2011
When I first arrived in Mexico City, I stayed at Hostel Amigo Suites, the younger, but more mellow and grown up sister of the noted party hostel, Hostel Amigo. But Hostel Amigo should be known for more than its lively nighttime events, it has an educational side. Together with Hostel Amigo Suites, it runs fantastic [...]
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Day Trip Bliss – Around Mexico City
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 15 October 2010
As if Mexico City didn’t have enough museums, attractions in and around the Centro, delicious tacos and cool neighborhoods to keep us busy for weeks, the city is also within easy day-trip distance of other fascinating things to do and see. Here are four of our favorite things to do around the city.
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Mexico City – the last hoorah
Blog: Boodle's Adventure - around the world in 365 days - 27 August 2010
Mexico was a city of lasts for us. Last Central American destination (sad!). Last greasy taco. Last 30 cent metro ride. Last time we have to think about not chucking our toilet paper in the loo, but into the bin beside it (absolutely gross, I know). Last time we have to communicate in broken Spanish for a while (yay!). Last opportunity we had to by anything off the street, including underwear (which are probably recycled…feral). SAD!!
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Feathered Serpents Litter the Grounds at Chichen Itza, But One Can Only Be Seen on the Equinox
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 13 August 2010
Worship of a feathered serpent deity may have begun as early as 200BC at Teotihuacan near present day Mexico City, but it reached its pinnacle at Chichen Itza, the Mayan cultural capital in the north central plains of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Named Quetzalcoatl by Nahua residents of Teotihuacan, to Maya the plumed serpent was Kukulcan, [...]
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You Can Get There from Here, But it Might Not Be Easy
Blog: Hole In The Donut - 23 May 2010
Mexico has the most amazing bus system I have ever seen, but it can also be the most confusing. Every city of size has a main bus station and they are called by many names: Centro de Autbuses, Cenrtal de Camiones, Terminal de Autobuses, Central Camionera, but use any of these phrases and everyone understands [...]
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76-Second Travel Show: ‘Airline logo awards’
Blog: Lonely Planet blog - 12 May 2010
I credit two things for kickstarting my love of travel: my dad getting me a ’sun idol’ outside the 1st-century pyramid outside Mexico City when I was five peering out over the runway of the Dallas/Ft Worth airport and seeing a mixed array of pastel-colored Braniff jets — and dreaming Airports birth many travel dreams. Waiting for flights [...]
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Teotihuacan to Oaxaca-Playing the game of catch up
Blog: Lost World Expedition - 8 April 2010
Sadly, we have to admit that we have fallen extremely behind on this blog thing. We would love to be able to blame it on horrible internet, a catastrophe that has prevented us from getting to a computer, or something else beyond our control, but unfortuately the blame is all ours. I guess our only [...]
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A Million Steps Back in Time
Blog: Joe's Trippin' - 28 March 2010
Early Meso-Americans are attributed with some of the greatest inventions in history. Universal education was a doosy. But how can we forget chewing gum, chocolate and popcorn.
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Things To Do Before….
Blog: The Mexile - 23 March 2010
…before I die? Or just before I leave Mexico, perhaps. I really need to climb to the top of the Angel of Independence. Maybe I’ll get around to that this very Sunday. I have high hopes for the photographic opportunities the extra height would provide. Assuming the pollution isn’t too bad. I like heights, so [...]
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Pyramides, Pozole, y Mezcal: Part I
Blog: Say Yes to Tacos - 28 October 2009
The weekend before last, three very important events coincided. Our first term at CEPE ended, Halloween happened, and Mexico celebrated el Dia de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Antsy to get out and join the festivities, Holly and I took our final exams one day early and headed over to the DF (Mexico [...]
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Teotihuacan – Mexico
Blog: Travels of Christopher - 7 October 2009
In the first millieum AD, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-colombian Americas. It is estimated that during it’s time it may have had more than 100,000 inhabitants, making it one of the largest cities of it period. The site is located in the State of Mexico, Mexico, about 40 kilometers Northeast of Mexico [...]
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Adios Mexico!
Blog: Justin and Lauren's travels - 12 May 2009
Though I have returned to the states (how strange!), I want to jot down the following, so as to remember everything about this crazy and amazing place! Mexico is so rich in art, culture, food, thinking, politics....it pretty much shames Australia in so many respects!
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Hectic final day in Mexico City
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 4 April 2009
One of the first rules of travelling (according to more experienced types) is to never over-plan. You never know when you’ll like somewhere so much you’ll want to extend your stay. And Mexico City definitely fits that description - I wasn’t all that impressed on my first visit in 2007, and now it’s rapidly becoming [...]
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