My travels took my to Mexico City, my first stop after Guanajuato. Mexico city was all I expected of it: big, dirty, crowded, polluted and chaotic. Especially chaotic, it already started when I arrived, driving into town. There are traffic lights you see, but they don´t count for much, instead there is traffic police directing cars along the streets. One of them, the traffic cops, had a very bright idea. I can already visualize what he was thinking "why not block a sidestreet at the end of street instead of a the beginning, near the corner, must be so much more so practical" The result was that everyone was taking the corner, driving into the street only to find out it was blocked - tried to turn and back out, but no.... After 5 minutes the entire thing was blocked, jammed and drivers were trying to get their cars out by driving over the plants supperating the lanes, the sidewalks etc. Pure Chaos.
I used Mexico DF as a base to get into Teotihuacan, originally believed to have been build by the Toltec, but now thought to have been build before their reign. It´s a city with a strange history, it collapsed around the 8th century only to be discovered centuries later by the Aztec. The place is said to have had more inhabitants than any European city during its height, around the 4th century (though, around that time Europe was entering the dark ages).
I went to the Yucatan directly after Mexico DF and started exploring the region from Cancun. The Maya civilization is interesting, though Chichen Itza whilst still beautifull is a bit of a let down. Perhaps, I have just seen to many temples and pyramids... There are some interesting things there though: the gigantic ball-court, the sacrificial sites (people get killed for winning or loosing the ball-games) and the main temple, which is actually a giant calendar which produces weird echoes if you clap your hands right next to it.
My travels took my to Mexico City, my first stop after Guanajuato. Mexico city was all I expected of it: big, dirty, crowded, polluted and chaotic. Especially chaotic, it already started when I arrived, driving into town. There are traffic lights you see, but they don´t count for much, instead there is traffic police directing cars along the streets. One of them, the traffic cops, had a very bright idea. I can already visualize what he was thinking "why not block a sidestreet at the end of street instead of a the beginning, near the corner, must be so much more so practical" The result was that everyone was taking the corner, driving into the street only to find out it was blocked - tried to turn and back out, but no.... After 5 minutes the entire thing was blocked, jammed and drivers were trying to get their cars out by driving over the plants supperating the lanes, the sidewalks etc. Pure Chaos.
I used Mexico DF as a base to get into Teotihuacan, originally believed to have been build by the Toltec, but now thought to have been build before their reign. It´s a city with a strange history, it collapsed around the 8th century only to be discovered centuries later by the Aztec. The place is said to have had more inhabitants than any European city during its height, around the 4th century (though, around that time Europe was entering the dark ages). 
I went to the Yucatan directly after Mexico DF and started exploring the region from Cancun. The Maya civilization is interesting, though Chichen Itza whilst still beautifull is a bit of a let down. Perhaps, I have just seen to many temples and pyramids... There are some interesting things there though: the gigantic ball-court, the sacrificial sites (people get killed for winning or loosing the ball-games) and the main temple, which is actually a giant calendar which produces weird echoes if you clap your hands right next to it.
