Day 2 Mexico
After 12 hours of sleep, I was feeling a little better until I had breakfast at the hotel and realized it cost me $230!!! Thank God P&G is paying for this trip or I would have been washing dishes at the kitchen tonight.It was just me and Rodolfo today since Akshay wanted to sleep in - we took a walking tour of the Centro Historico, starting with the Palacio del Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) for the famous murals of Diego Rivera, Siqueiros, Lozano and Tamayo.
The House of Tiles was interesting - the whole exterior and even parts of the interior were covered in blue mosaic tiles. It's now a huge restaurant and was absolutely full of people. We also passed by an exhibition of Juan Gorman's paintings and the best thing was, the tickets were free. :) Sigh... I'm such a cheapo.
We ended in the Zocalo, the 2nd biggest square in the world (next to the Red Square in Moscow), surrounded by the Metropolitan Church (the 1st cathedral built in the Americas) and the National Palace, for even more of Diego Rivera's fantastic murals of communism and the early Indians.
I am writing this now in the cafeteria of the Museum of Anthropology where I just took a nice trip back in time to visit the Teotihuacan, Aztec and Mayan civilizations. I'm generally not as interested in anthropological stuff (pottery, jewelry, bones, etc. bore me) and I didn't spend as much time in there as everyone said I would (3 hours vs. 1 whole day), but I still think this is definitely worth going to.
I'm headed back to the hotel after this to rest up, so I'm at my best when I attempt my tequila shots tonight. :)
posted by moan @ 7:55 AM
1 Comments:
How have you been? Mexico looked so fun and so historic.
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