Mexico - Mexico City at Large 12.08

The breakfast room at Casa Gonazalez, our hotel. We tried breakfast elsewhere, but my favorite place to start the day was here. Cafe con leche, fresh fruit and some variety of Mexican eggs. The final morning they served a sliced banana topped with sugar and fresh squeezed lime. It was so good!



Our first morning in the city, we walked to the anthropology museum. Sites along the way: the main boulevard Paseo de la Reforma, vendor booths in Chapultepec Park, and these dancers, called voladores. They perform a "dance" that comes from a traditional indigenous ceremony. They climb a tall pole, and then gradually descend to the ground as the rope attached to around their waists unwinds from the pole. Four men descend, while one stays on top playing the flute.


The rest of these photos are from the Coyoacan neighborhood. We had a great day exploring the neighborhood's main square, markets, and the surrounding residential area. I wish I had gotten a photo of the food market we walked through between the subway stop and this central square. Just picture stacks of fresh fruits and vegetables, dried chiles, and piles of sauce pastes and spice mixes.


Typical Christmas decorations on a municipal building at one end of the square.


Massive wooden doors on the church at the other side of the square.


Capilla de la Conchita, a small chapel constructed in 1521 by order of Cortes. We took a break in a quiet cafe right across the street from the park where this chapel was located. A rare quiet moment in a crowded (!) city.


Chris and I in the garden at Frida Kahlo's house.