Teotihuacan Pyramids

Up at 8am to meet the new tour, I knew it was going to be small but 6 people plus the tour manager. It looks like we use public transport to get around which should add to the excitement. I am also lucky as I am the only single male so I get upgrade to a single room, been a while since I haven't shared, might get lonely.

As a group we head on the local bus to the bus terminal and catch a couch to Teotihuacan. I should really read about my tours, I didn't have a clue that we were doing this. The place was pretty cool, well preserved. The coach there picked up a couple of locals, who sing to you for a few pesos at the end.

We got a guide while we were there, it lasted around 2 hours. I wasn't to happy with the stories behind the Pyramids though, it turns out that they would sacrifice people on the current level, then leave them there before building the next level of the pyramid on top. These people were normally important people, kings, rich, and it turns out, even captains of the winning sporting team would be sacrificed, wouldn't be to keen on that job. At the end of the guided tour, most of us climbed both the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.

Back to the hotel around 3pm, giving plenty of time to look around Mexico city. After a walk around, it reminded me of a cleaner version of Cairo. Shops all over the street, great architecture covered up by advertising and mobile towers.

That night we head to a cafe a few blocks away, there speciality is a pepper dish, chile en nogales, normally only gets served at news years, the Mexicans love it. I only managed to eat half of it, tasted like mushed up lentals served up cold in a piece of leather, not my type of tucker. Turns out Adam, our tour manager tried it last week and thought they must have cooked it wrong, nope, it is always crap.

The boys went off to a little pub with a live band, drinking a few local drops, the girls went back to the hotel. The beer was served up in big cocktail glasses, they were going down a treat. We thought we would check out another bar that denied us early because it was full and they wanted to nice little amount under the table to let us in, they were still full but the drummer was downstairs and was happy to talk to us. He got us in, great live music, the place was only full with seated people, no one was standing or dancing which I found weird. Eventually I get back to the hotel, 6 hours of sleep before I get up nice and early.