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August 25, 2005
Surviving el D.F.
The combo of our Lonely Planet book's Dangers and Annoyances sections, along with horror stories and advice to avoid the Districto Federal altogether from residents of Northern Mexico, had us a little on edge as we pulled into the bus station in still-dark Mexico city at 6:30 in the morning.
Things didn't seem any more secure when I found out the hostel we planned to stay in, which had a shuttle service from the bus station, had gone out of business. So in its place we found a decent priced hotel in the Centro Historico that had a room available. We got a ticket from the authorized taxi stand inside the terminal and after warily checking out our taxi driver and matching the license plate number to the one painted on the side, we were soon off to the hotel. The ride, of course, was perfectly fine, and so was our nice taxi driver.
The hotel is perfect and they put us on the top floor so we have a bit of a view. Since neither of us slept that well on the bus we crashed for a few hours in the room. Once up we grabbed a bite to eat in Chinatown, which wasn't too far from the hotel. We walked around the city a bit and went to the Diego Rivera mural museum located in the city park, Alamada Central across the way. Rivera´s mural "Sueño de una tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central" or "A Dream of a Sunday afternoon in the Alameda Central," housed in the museum depicts all sorts of figures from Mexico´s history.
Instead of dinner tonight we headed to a place that serves churros and chocolate, one of my favorites in Spain. It definitely lived up to expectations.
All in all it was a good day and we've definitely gotten a little more comfortable in the city.
Posted by Peter Mork at August 25, 2005 5:08 PM
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