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A few quick thoughts on Ciudad de Mexico…

We haven’t started pedaling yet. In fact, today we are loading our still-boxed bikes on a minibus and heading to Valle De Bravo where we will spend a couple of days reassembling and getting psychologically ready for some fairly big climbs around the land of volcanoes.

Mexico City has been surprisingly fantastic. I don’t quite recall what I was expecting, but is a very pretty city with beautiful Spanish Colonial style buildings. There are trees everywhere which makes the city very pleasing. Of course it also has a hell of a lot of people and can get fairly intense. Here are a few photos:

Bike touring blog - Mexico City
One of a few hundred thousand street food stalls.
Bike touring - Mexico City

These wonderful, giant paper maché sculptures lined the street outside of our Hotel Stanza in the Roma neighborhood
Bike touring blog - Mexico City
Fountain in the courtyard of the Museo National de Anthropologia
Bike touring blog - Mexico City
Some crazy human sacrifice relics from the Aztecs
Bike touring blog - Mexico City
A street dog caught in the act
Bike touring blog - Mexico City
A Frank ashtray
Bike touring blog - Mexico City
You never know what you are going to find in a market here
Bike touring blog - Mexico City
The common Mexico City bike
Bike touring blog - Mexico City
This photo doesn’t do justice to how crazy it is to get on and off the Metro
Bike touring blog - Mexico City

At the Sonora market – I think this market was the size of a small town in the US
Bike touring blog - Mexico City
A creepy alter in the Sonora brujo market
Bike touring blog - Mexico City

Virginia bewildered at the witchcraft/brujo market
Bike touring blog - Mexico City
Mexican flag in the Zocolo square

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