Mexico City - more VW Beetles and cops than you've ever seen in your life! The Beetles are due to a VW factory having been in Mexico and the cops obviously due to the huge crime rate in Mexico but to be honest we didn't find it that sketchy. Probably because there are literally cops on every corner plus aggressive looking pickup trucks loaded with cops in riot gear getting about all the time.
We didn't go out to any bars, just wandered around and checked out various markets, tried some of the street food, etc. We also did a day trip out to the awesome Mayan pyramids just outside the city! Pretty interesting going out past the slums too and seeing the extent of the most populous city in the Americas!
I'd say it's worth visiting if you're going through but you don't have to go out of your way. Oh and don't eat tacos if you don't understand what's in them! On the last night (we spent a couple of days there) we went out for dinner with a couple of other guys from the hostel and ended up at this little taco place around the corner. I'd been trying to eat all sorts of new stuff I hadn't heard of in Mexico (like they say, Mexican food is different in Mexico and it's true) but this time I just decided to not roll the dice and just got chicken tacos. Jack and the other guys decided to try some of the, ahem, cheaper offerings without really understanding what they meant...
Well, we spoke enough Spanish to understand cabeza means head but somehow didn't compute that tacos de cabeza really means tacos from various head parts and that you can order eye, ear, nose, lip, tongue and skin tacos! When the came out mine looked great but the other guys tacos with filled with weird greyish stuff, some of it covered in hair! Jack passed but the other guys stated tucking in until some Argentinian girls from the hostel arrived and told them what they were eating! Hilarious :)
Sadly our Latin American adventure had come to an end. We finally got a taxi to stop (they didn't like the look of our surfboards) and convinced the guy to take us to the airport where once again we got taxed when checking in our surfboards. Makes me so angry when you see guys putting in golf clubs for free. Anyway goodbye Mexico and hello the US of A!
