Mexcio City, Teotihuacán and Los Pumas

After 1 bus, 2 metros and 3 flights and 27 year hours traveling we arrived in Mexico city. Our plan was to stay for a few days. A few days quickly turned into a week and now I'm writing this on a bus to Oaxaca after 13 days in Mexico City. I could easily have spent another few months there.

So what did we do for 13 days in Mexico city? We took a few days to recover from Brazil, catch up emails, write some blog posts and make some plans for the next few months including booking a flight to Cuba. We spent a few days exploring the city, ate a lot of tacos, visited the pyramids at Teotihuacán.

Pyramid of the Sun

Pyramid of the Moon

We got to know some locals who showed us around. Everyone was very friendly, I believe even more so because we attempted to speak some spanish. I went to see a Spanish band play what appeared to be a blend of cumbia and folk music! We were a few metro stops away from UNAM the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México so we spent 2 days hanging out in the University. UNAM is considered to have the largest enrollment among universities in the Americas and it’s main campus is a world heritage site.

The Central Library

Mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros

Finally on my last day I went to see Los Pumas play in the olympic stadium. I never made it to a match in Argentina so this was my first experience of soccer in latin america. I've been to a few premiership games over the years but the atmosphere here was very different. And so was the security, I've never seen so many armed police and riot police in one place. We took a bus to the stadium and as soon as we got off it we were surrounded by riot police and searched. Then as we proceeded to enter the stadium we were searched another 2 times. The search was thorough, even checking the contents of your wallet. I figured it was best not to go taking photographs of the police but you can see some of them in the distance in the picture below.

Riot Police after the game

I was fortunate enough to be invited to the game by some locals who attend all home and away games so I was right in the middle of everything. Los Pumas won 3-2. The game started at 12pm and at 7pm the party outside the stadium was still going strong.

Los Pumas

The crowd throwing empty beer cups!