This morning another wonderful Mexican breakfast was in Serbian: Vanessa had "tlacoyos Nopales with" (fried dough with fruit Prickley pear cactus and melted cheese on deck) that I have enjoyed it. At 9:30 we got going and Vanessa's sister, left us in front of Angel de la Independencia, a monument commemorating the 1910 independence from Spain, on the Paseo de la Reforma. The Paseo de la Reforma is an almost 4 km long avenue of trees,Connects the center of town to the Bosque de Chapultepec. various monuments adorn its glorietas or roundabouts, and we've already had one of the places, the Caballito, yesterday. Right next to the Angel de la Independencia, an officer of the tourist police stopped us and asked us where we go and if it could be useful. It was a very charming young man and pulled a laminated card from his jacket and Security pointed out, all the main attractions of Mexico City. Wehad seen, more or less, but inevitably we miss very well, there was much to see and it just was not enough time. After a photo session with the tourist police at the top and we stopped to explore the Paseo de la Reforma. By Angel de la Independencia, we invoked the Cazadora Diana (Diana, the Huntress) statue, the woman has caused a stir when it was originally presented as it is a statue of a nude.
The city council decided to coverthe statue for a while ', but common sense has prevailed and the shameful covers were removed after some time. We continued our morning at Bosque de Chapultepec, a former land sacred to the pre-Columbian cultures and now walks the largest park in Mexico City. Going up to the castle for the first time he meets a monument called the Monumento a los Niños Heroes, to commemorate the Army Cadets (the "Young Heroes"), to defend the castle from an American attack in 1847, died. Fromwhere we explored the Castillo de Chapultepec, which was originally built in 1760, but it is likely that the residence of the ill-fated Austrian-born Emperor Maximilian known, and his wife, Princess Charlotte, who reigned only for a few years in Mexico 1866, when he was an unfortunate end by firing squad. We walked slowly down the hill of the castle, paid our entrance fee and started exploring the castle. In true Habsburg tradition, is decorated with ornatebaroque furniture, and the first thing you see are the real "carrozas" (car) when you arrive in the first room of the exhibition. From this point we see a large variety of spaces, as used by the Habsburgs - dining room, living room, bedroom and a meeting room that illustrate the extreme opulence that these kings enjoyed. No wonder the population, which was only eeking a life, he was angry with the domain and privileges of the aristocrats. Wethen went to the garden level, which is closed by windows. Right next to one of those glass walls on the floor, we noticed a small "Colibri (Hummingbird), which had flown against the glass container and threw it down. Vanessa saved from her gently in your hand, then we went down the stairs and Vanessa put the little bird free on the lawn. When he opened his hand, the bird had his wits enough to fly away again in freedom. Then we explored the Museum of Caracol (the"Snail Museum", because of its shape), also a museum on the history of Mexico (Galeria de Historia), with a series of dioramas with scenes of the struggle for the independence of the Mexican Revolution. The city view from the castle hill is fantastic and you literally enjoy a 360 degrees. Then we went down the hill, past a number of street vendors, selling everything from Mexican snacks, sun hats and visors, disposable cameras, many of which areannounced promotional shouting range of goods from the parade of visitors.
Mexican families Chapultepec Lake is a popular destination and offers paddle boats, swans, stages for plays and ballets, and many great places to relax. We managed the Casa del Lago, an art center of the largest universities in Mexico, UNAM. Outside the Casa del Lago people of all ages were drawing, painting, reading newspapers, and thisLocation offers many free activities in arts and culture for the local population. Shortly after our visit, it went further on the sidewalk with all the street vendors on foot and saw a local artist, the production of miniature paintings, has been with the fingers, fingertips, and the occasional brush stroke. He has produced a variety of landscapes, including one known to the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl. I had the opportunity to make a video of his career and ended up buying 3 verycolored miniature paintings of typical Mexican scenes. While he paints, he told stories about the subjects he painted, and he cracked the occasional joke, which brought the total amount of viewers laugh. Then we returned to the Paseo de la Reforma to the Auditorium, room in Mexico City famous outdoor concert. On the sidewalk beside the busy road to 6 lanes, there was a public art project: a series of life-size cows, painted and decorated invery special ways and provided great photo opportunities for the enthusiastic visitors. This public art campaign reminded me of Toronto's moose exhibits from a few years. I think Chicago had a similar campaign with cows. Once inside the auditorium, we bought a refreshing "Nieve" (shaved ice, flavored with lime in this case) and went back to the Paseo de la Reforma towards the famous Museo de la Antropología. We studied the outside and the lobby, unfortunately, we havehave not had enough time to explore the interior. The Museum of Anthropology is one of the largest and most comprehensive museums in Mexico. E 'was opened in 1964 and several collections of artifacts from pre-Columbian cultures of Mexico. Opposite the museum is a huge stone statue of rain, Tlaloc. Then we took a bus (a "weigh") for the other part of the Bosque de Chapultepec, near the mayor of Lake, where we leave near Children's Museum and has begun to explorethis part of the park. We were in search of the restaurant overlooking Lake Mayor, and was a bit 'difficult, primarily because it is a Restaurante del Lago and a café in the Lago
he finally asked after several passers-by Vanessa, we thought we should go to the Café del Lago and sure enough we found our lunch destination. Coffee is an attractive looking on the lake, and offers a lunch buffet every day. Fortunately, we havenegotiated our way into just ordering a soup since we already "Greaves" snacked (pigskin usually inflated and fried, but those were made from wheat flour), and there was no possibility of a full meal could be do. I just had a delicious poblano pepper, a green soup made of chili, which was done very tasty and creamy. Then we headed back to the road where we hopped on another "weigh" that there would be the subway station in Los Constituyentes where we went about 3captured large or 4 steps down (we have about 40 or 50 feet below the surface have been) and three subway trains back to the vicinity of Vanessa.
After a quick and cost-Norway (5 pesos, 70 cents) in an Internet café, took Vanessa's parents and sister are up to us to San Angel, another beautiful area of Mexico City with the buildings of the colonial period cobblestone streets. We started with exploration of the Iglesia de San Jacinto, which has an internalCourtyard to collect rainwater with a rainchute and a beautiful private garden in the back of the church. In a large celebration was held: a "quinceñera" - a ritual to celebrate the 15 year old girl entering adulthood. Then we explored the Plaza San Jacinto, had hundreds of street vendors selling various kinds of works of art. San Angel is a neighborhood that is home to many artists are known. It features numerous permanent galleries as well as the weekend"Tianguis" or "mercado-patient" ("Walking-market") with suppliers, which together with the shop only on weekends. For dinner we took in one of the restaurants overlooking the square and had some traditional Mexican dishes. I had a "sopa de La Fonda" (chicken soup with pico de gallo and avocado), followed by an "Ensalada de berros" (watercress salad with diced tomato, onion and bacon). Vanessa's family had covered a variety of fish dishes and "Chile relleno (stuffed peppers with minced meat,with a sauce of cream, nuts and cinnamon) made. At about 8 clock we had finished our dinner, and since we had a pretty busy day, we went back to bed to get some rest and we left.
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