Adios

Adiós cama de cucaracha, computadora de hormiga, y el amor. Gracias a los gran amigos y estudiantes que encontré. Gracias por los tiempos buenos y también para las malditas jodidos.

You never know the places life will take you, the people you will meet, nor the things you will learn. This learning thing is amazing, sometimes incredibly difficult, and surely never-ending.

A few more places, things

The Vasconcelos Library, with 'floating' or 'suspended' bookshelves.


Sleeping in the Zona Rosa...


sleeping in the Centro.


On the metro you can always find people selling things. Chicles (gum), sin azucar, solo por cinco pesos! Gloves, sudoku booklets, pens with pullout metro maps, toys, and many more things. The blind often wander through the trains with speakers strapped onto their bodies, playing mix CDs they've created. Some of them truly are blind, but others just fake it.


You can also find clowns and beggars. This guy was carrying around a cloth full of broken glass shards and slamming his scarred and bloody back upon the pieces.


A night of live reggae at a bar in La Condesa with a friend.

Taxco

A stunning view as you approach Taxco.


The weather was perfect - warm but not too hot.


The picture doesn't do justice to the intricacy of the church.



At the bus station we took a combi to the centre of the town. When we got off, a man approached us and told us about a restaurant La Flor de la Vida. I just heard the name and wanted to go. It was a little place up three or four flights of stairs with a beautiful outdoor balcony with a view of the town. It wasn't expensive to boot.



Chilaquiles and surprisingly good coffee.



A view of the Zocalo from the restaurant.




The narrow cobblestone streets snake and curve up and down the mountain between tons of silver and trinket shops. Taxco is famed for its silver.


This is the guy who showed us the restaurant. He kept appearing afterward and showed us this shrine, a souvenir shop, and gave us a little tour of the area.



Some of the booths selling silver.










Candies and snacks



Before leaving, we took a taxi to the top of the mountain to see this newly placed statue.




The view was well worth it.

Xochimilco

Everyone said "you have to go to Xochimilco," and they were right.



On the way there we passed by this odd-looking building.


My friends had the idea to pour beer into the flower vase one of them got for his grandma. Then, add tequila. Pretty heavy to drink from, and it got a lot of attention.


The boats of Xochimilco. You can rent trajineras by the hour to take you along the crowded canals. People bring/buy food, drinks, and music for the boat ride.



No surprise - food and trinkets were for sale in other boats all around us.





Mariachi players trying to convince us to buy a song. We were later serenaded by three songs, while dancing on the front of the boat.



Dolls and teddybears were strung across the shore in some areas. For extra dinero, you can hire a trajinera to take you to la Isla De Las Muñecas which is entirely covered in dolls.


Care for a bonsai?


There were lots of stray dogs there, and they'd just be sitting on the shore watching people pass by.




A Canadian flag


Reyna Elizabeth



There were lots of nurseries along the way too. If you want to stop at one, or a bathroom, you just have to ask your 'driver' to pull over.