Mexico City
Friday, December 15th, 2006I get the feeling that no matter how hard I try not to have preconceptions about places, I will still carry them in and they will all be thrown out soon after arriving. I went into Mexico City expecting a filthy, rundown, over-crowded second-class large city. While I can’t report that it is not over-crowded, it is not as densely packed as many cities due to lack of sky-scrapers. This is a world-class city that I truly believe is on par with New York, London and Paris. It has the architecture, history, culture, arts, diversity and worldliness of the others. And all at a fraction of the cost. I stayed at Hotel Isabel near the zocalo in Centro Historico in a very large, clean albeit rundown with a comfortable bed for $20 per night. It gets cheaper and more expensive in Mexico City depending on your needs, but specifically with my place, where in NYC, London or Paris could you stay for that? Aside… I am currently sitting in Guatemala on a deck off my room overlooking Heaven on Earth. I’ll save the location for a future post, but I will say that I am looking out over one of the most beautiful lakes I will ever see ringed by volcanoes with the last rays of sunlight shining. This makes it very difficult to go back to Mexico City and tell you about it…
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