After sightseeing in the morning of my first day in Mexico City, I went to get something to eat. As I normally do, I have been going to get something to eat quite frequently. I think I’ll talk about food in another entry, though, so I’ll skip past that for now.
The rest of my first day wasn’t particularly exciting. On Saturday, I transfer to another hotel and meet people with whom I will be travelling. Since I was anticipating a hike across town, dragging eight weeks worth of baggage with me, I decided to locate my destination early. I looked it up on Google Maps and as fate would have it, my new hotel is only about 3/8 of a mile away from my current hotel. ¡Que suerte! Later on, I got some food, but again, I’ll talk about that later.
Upon doing a little research, I found that there were still plenty of sightseeing opportunities in my general vicinity. I wanted to take a few photos of Torre Latinamericano, a famous skyscraper in Mexico City, so I went back out into the neighborhood in which I was the previous day. On my way there, however, my eyes were caught by some older structures on Avenida Hidalgo, so I went in that direction and took some photos. Once I walked a little further, I realized that I had gotten close to Plaza Garibaldi-Mariachi, a famous square that is full of mariachi groups on weekend evenings. Even though this was a Friday morning, I decided to head over to the Plaza just in case I didn’t get another chance. I saw a lot of mariachi performers sitting around with their instruments, but as I expected, nothing much was going on.
I turned around and headed back towards Torre Latinamericano. On my way, just before I got to the Palacio de Bellas Artes that I wrote about in an earlier post, I found a pedestrian street with lots of stores and street vendors and I felt the need to check it out. It wasn’t as bustling as, say, Avenida Florida in Buenos Aires, but again, this was a Friday morning, so I wasn’t expecting it to be going full blast. I walked down about five or six blocks and I saw that the street let out at the Plaza de la Constitución. How did I miss this the previous day? I must have walked right by it. No problem, though. I walked back down the pedestrian street and I was able to get my photos of Torre Latinamerico from there.
I returned towards my hotel down the Paseo de la Reforma but when I got to the street on which my hotel was located, I kept going. I had discovered that further down the Paseo de la Reforma was one of the main icons of Mexico City, the Angel de la Independencia, or “El Angel.” It was only about a fifteen-minute walk from where I had eaten dinner the night before, but at that time I hadn’t realized that I was so close. By the time I got to it, I was hungry so I stopped and had my first (though far from my last) tacos in Mexico. At El Angel, I took some photos, but because of the strength of the sun right overhead, the pictures are a little dark. I hope to return at night and take some better photos when it is lit up.
Okay, that’s it for now. As I write this, it’s Saturday and I’m getting ready to check out of one hotel and walk to another. Then, some more sightseeing this afternoon before meeting people at the new hotel this evening. I’ll be back.
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