Mexico City
French poet André Breton famously called Mexico the surrealist country par excellence, and the capital
seems to revel in its strangeness. The world’s third largest urban area (by some estimates) fills a highland
basin 2240m above sea level, so you might already feel a bit light─headed upon arrival. The city impresses
visitors as a wonderfully weird and welcoming world, and captivates them with its year-round springlike
climate, bubbling street life and abundant cultural offerings.
A must see experience!
Like any great metropolis, Mexico City presents a mosaic of scenes. One moment you’re knocking back
tequila at a grand old cantina, the next you’re grooving to world-class DJs on a rooftop terrace. Breakfast
on tamales and atole (a drink made from corn) from a street corner vendor, dine on fusion cuisine by one of
Polanco’s acclaimed chefs. After an afternoon spent sharing the anguish of artist Frida Kahlo, watch masked
wrestlers inflict pain on one another at the lucha libre (wrestling) arena downtown. To be sure pollution
and crime remain real concerns for Chilangos, but since the turn of the millennium, there’s been a palpable
sense that the capital has turned a page. Rather than heading for the apocalypse, it now seems destined
for a renaissance.