It all started with the idea that we travel to Colombia to go birding. As we started to make that idea into a plan, we discovered that our best flight to Bogota included a change of planes in Mexico City. Suddenly our plans included two weeks in Mexico. Bonus feature of this plan -- the elevation of Bogota is 2640m and we live at sea level. Spending some time in CDMX (elevation 2240m) beforehand would give us some time to adapt.
We've been to Mexico City before, and looked forward to spending some more time there after our last abbreviated visit. But.....
Mexico City is big, it's crowded, and it's a little overwhelming. Don't get me wrong, we saw some amazing things in our first two full days in CDMX.
Palacio Bellas Artes.
Museo Vivo del Muralismo
Museo Nacional de Antropología
But we were also a little over-confident about travelling to Mexico after having been here 6 times before, and we neglected to refresh our memory on a few practicalities. So we got ripped off on our taxi fare on arrival (we paid about double what we should have), messed up the activation of our Mexican SIM cards, and ended up eating some mediocre meals. Oh, and I didn't spend enough time on my Duolingo listening exercises and had trouble understanding what anyone was saying.
Nothing terrible, but I wasn't displeased to leave for Xalapa on Day 3.
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