Mexico City, modern, colonial, huge, colorful, funky, sometimes tacky, lol

[Hector]

Eclectic Mexico City (D.F.)...































































Working class family homes:





...and let's not forget Mexico City has poor shanty towns as well:



Mexico City - a set on Flickr

[BOTZWANA]

Again if you visit Saltillo Mexico, come on down to the Monster Cafe.

[Mikey]

Cool pics !!!!

What's this ?
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/...e68d2777_o.jpg

Is it farmland built in a crater --- or is that manmade ?

[vulcan2074]

Those are some fantastic pictures.
Sammy

[Hector]

Cool pics !!!!

What's this ?
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/...e68d2777_o.jpg

Is it farmland built in a crater --- or is that manmade ?

I'm sure it's for agriculture.

[Meule]

One day I'd like to visit it

[Mikey]

I think it's the biggest city in the America's ... even bigger than New York

[saildog]

I think it's the biggest city in the America's ... even bigger than New York

There are more people squeezed in per square mile in NYC, but Mexico City has a larger population to be sure.

Heck, Tokyo is barely bigger than Mexico City and it used to be much bigger, population wise.

I'm pretty lucky to live in one of the biggest cities (land area-wise), but our population is way under 1 Million. Still, that's bad enough. Living in Tokyo taught me that I don't like being squeezed in with other folks.

[Hector]

The Zócalo, the center of Mexico City (this picture is way too large to directly post):

http://mexico.travelguia.net/wp-cont...09/zocalo2.jpg

Zócalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Sandman9580]

Looks like it's everything you say it is.

I would love to spend a good week there seeing the sights, though it looks almost overwhelming from those pics. (And what I've heard about that traffic... ) I think for a longer stay, Guanajuato looks more my speed - lots of quiet, old world nooks and crannies to get lost in.

[samurainoir]

I stayed in a big fancy hotel in the lower left hand corner of this pic.


At the time they had erected a huge tent in the square to display a photography/film exhibition called Ashes and Snow. Ironically, the artist was Canadian! We had travelled to the other end of the continent to see the work of our countryman.

Although there were more than enough works by Diego and Frida within throwing distance.

Just down the street from here were ruins that they had uncovered. My understanding was that it meant that the seat of power had not moved too far geographically, even before the Europeans.

What I loved about family day was the fact that all the museums and galleries were free. We managed to hit a half dozen of them.

My friend's brother was going to take us to see the Lucha Libres, but unfortunately they were not on during the weekend when we were there. We did get to see the Folklore Ballet at this place here (but forgive me if I would have preferred to see the the Mexican Wrestling!)

[saildog]

Although there were more than enough works by Diego and Frida within throwing distance.

Man, I love the murals that Diego Rivera created. Time and place captured and relayed to generations to come.

Just this spring, I was sitting in a Restaurant with my extended family and I noticed a big mural on the wall. I asked, "You know who that mural reminds me of?"

My Dad didn't even look up from his plate and said, "Diego Rivera.".

[samurainoir]

Here's a great one from the Palacio Nacional (the building in the top right of the square in the pic below).



and this one down the street at the Diego Mural Museum. I spent about an hour looking at it. There was so much going on in it and it was so huge.

[Hector]

That's awesome my friend...yeah...the museums rule...

[Mikey]

That last picture is almost a Mexican Sgt Pepper's