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Mexico City, Mexico
And here we are! After 12 hours flying over sea, land and clouds we have arrived to this enormous city together with our enormous backpacks...
The weather is very warm.Uber works better than many European capitals and soon we are in a sea of cars. 18 MILLION cars to be more concrete! In one of these, trying to win over any other car that will attempt to get our way. Constant fight!
Streets are chaotic and colorful, making us feel like home.
The days to come we will be eating tasty breakfasts together with Kati in her beautiful apartment, taking the one Uber after the other in our effort to visit all the places that we will not forgive ourselves if we don't, surviving the traffic and be relatively on time whenever it is needed, battle the jet lag, that for us was always there as our best buddy after 6 pm, eating a lot of Mexican food,drinking liters of fresh lemonades, doing one day trips and trying to decide which place we will visit next as the recommendations are coming like the Mexican rain,always after five pm but in thick drops.
Below we are giving you some highlights per day that made our days memorable and special.
Day #1
Kati and her Argentinian colleagues Ignacio and Nico took us for lunch to a very traditional place in the National park Desierto de los Leones,(dessert of the lions) and the place was called Osito (the teddy bear). During lunch next to the place a funeral was taking place so people in black were singing along the mariachis and a lot of fire crackers.The phrase of the day: "go sweet yourself!" meaning serve yourself some sugar for your lemonade.(Beliebers, no offense!)
Day #2
We had a crazy day visiting Frida Kahlo's blue house...what a short life but what a full life..colors, emotions, ideals and ideas, friends and fights, love and politics. And style...tones of it, unconventional, authentic, far from any concern of what the others think.
In the afternoon we visited the anthropology museum and of course we saw all the majestic art of the different eras and civilizations (too hard to keep track..)
Day#3
We spent our day in the center ,visiting Zócalo, Templo Mayor, the biggest temple of Mexicas that the Spanish invention destroyed massively, and after small shopping we ate a delicious dinner in Azul historico, if you ever come to Mexico City you should visit it!
Day #4
Today we went to Puebla, a beautiful, colonial city that happened to have a very nice religious festival full of traditional clothes and songs, Burak made some local wild friends (check pics!)and after wandering around and doing some serious shopping for Kati's apartment, it was time for Burak to test his driving skills to the Mexican rally circuits/highways/whatever looks like a way. To add to the level of the challenge,the ladies needed toilet pit stop but as it was too risky to stop to some areas, he had to drive not too fast, not too slow and avoid any bumps or sudden slaloms!!
It was where the Turkish driver's DNA was fully matched with the Mexican's :-))) After this experience Burak is ready for a job interview at Heineken! :D
By the way, in the highway at specific locations there is a line where you can stop if you don't have breaks!! And signs indicate that if you don't have brakes you should honk and the rest of cars need to give you way!!!
Day#5
Today we woke up at 5:30am to go to Teotihuacan, the city of Gods, where the pyramids are. We had a great tour guide,we saw and learnt so many things (the archeologists still know very little as there is no written record about the civilization that built the pyramids, and it has been very recent discovery). We climbed everywhere, we saw how efficiently the cactus is used for different uses in a nearby local workshop, we drank tequila, mezcal and pulke before returning sunburnt and tired to Mexico City.
Day#6
Today we took it easy with another walking tour in Mexico City. We saw the first cinema (now the needs turned it to a porn theater), Bellas Artes, different nice buildings,including Theatre Fru Fru that James Bond destroyed in his last film Spectre. For the ones who haven't watched the movie yet, Specter begins in the center of Mexico City during a carnival on the 2nd of November, the day of the dead. We learned that in reality Mexicans didn't have a carnival on this day but thanks to the movie there was a huge expectation for a carnival so from now on the day of the dead is celebrated with a carnival on every 2nd of November!
At night it was time for Lucha libre!!! Lucha libre is the national Mexican sport which is the second most famous after football!! This is the fake wrestling sport in which the warriors try to prove who the strongest is! We had so much fun, we laughed a lot!! Especially the involvement and comments of the spectators were awesome!!
Thank you Chilango! You were the best place to kick off our journey!
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