The capital of Mexico is a huge anthill with a labyrinth from the streets, which harmoniously combine the majestic architecture of the colonial era and the heritage of the Mayan and Aztec tribes. Here, snacks with this are adjacent to fashionable hotels, and scrapers and Mariachi are walking around in the center. In Mexico City, everyone will find how to decorate leisure.
How to get
Only by air. The most convenient with a transplant in Istanbul-tickets for the flight Turkish Airlines will cost from 70,000 rubles* back and fifth. On the way you will spend from 12 hours. A little more time will take a docking in Amsterdam with KLM-from 19 hours, the price will be similar-from 70,000 rubles* back and forth per person.
It is convenient to reach the city center from terminal No. 1:
- In 25 minutes on the metro: the yellow line airport station is called Terminal Aérea. The fare is 5 peso* (30 rubles).
- In 45 minutes by bus No. 4 of Metrobus: you need to get to Santo Domingo Square. The ticket costs 30 peso* (120 rubles).
- By taxi for 250-300 pesos* (900-1100 rubles) or on Uber for 130-200 peso* (470-720 rubles).
Entrance conditions during quarantine
The Mexico Migration Service website will need to receive an electronic entry permit (you need Acrobat Reader). It is free and operates 180 days. If there is a Schengen, then permission is not required. Another good news: the coronavirus test is also not needed either.
Where to stop
Thousand options for thousands, prices start from 450 rubles* per night. It all depends on your budget and the desired comfort.
We recommend from hotels:
Hotel Catalina (from 1600 rubles* per night per person)
Fiesta Inn Centorico (from 2800 rubles* per night per person)
There are also apartments with the kitchen:
Departamentos pánuco (from 3100 rubles* per night per person)
Monoambientes Cuauhtemoc (from 2500 rubles* per night per person)
And guest houses:
Habitaciones Monterrey (from 1100 rubles* per night per person)
What to do
The first day
It simply needs to be devoted to the study of the city center, especially since many attractions are located from each other in walking distance.
Let us start the route with the most lively area, where the national palace is located – the President’s residence with beautiful wall frescoes inside, displaying the history of the country. The cathedral rises in the same square, the main treasure of which was the altar of kings. Free admission.
We look into the sweet paradise Pastelería Ideal and try local desserts, for example, Tres Leches cake or custard Flan from 35 peso* (130 rubles).
Further, the route goes through the Palace of Fine Arts, which is now functioning as an opera and a museum. In its creation, eminent Italian, Spanish and Mexican artists and architects participated. It’s worth looking to evaluate the frescoes and curtain from Tiffany. The entrance ticket costs 70 pesos* (260 rubles).
We reach the Sonor market. Unrequited love, financial problems or malaise – on the largest market of esoteric goods for everything there is a solution in the form of roots, potions, soap and other strange substances and amulets.
Look at Cafebrería El Péndulo – this is a whole museum forest with a bizarre design, where thousands of books, discs, vinyl, souvenirs are presented. Here you can drink coffee.
Toward evening, we head to Garibaldi Square – here it is, the Museum of Tequila and Meskal. We tast, buy something home. The cost of the input ticket is 75 peso* (280 rubles). In the evening, groups of national singers and musicians Mariachi flowing to the square, who perform their favorite songs for a fee. We are sitting at the table of one of the cafes and merging with Mexican culture.
The second day
Mexico is not only tequila and Caesadilla. This is the heritage of Maya and the Aztecs, who left traces of their civilizations throughout the country.
We go to the TEOTIHUACAN archaeological complex. We study the vast territory of the former “city of the gods”, suddenly abandoned by all the inhabitants, look at the museum with artifacts, divide the pyramid of the Sun – one of the largest in the country. From the top opens an incomparable view of the mountains.
How to get. Buses depart from the Autobuses del Norte Station bus station from exit No. 8 and follow to the Peramides station. The cost of a ticket to both ends is 104 peso* (380 rubles).
The cost of entering the territory of the complex is 80 peso* (300 rubles), the price of a tour with a guide is from 700 peso* (2,600 rubles).
The third day
Floating gardens, Mexican Venice – as soon as they do not call the charming area of Xochimilco for its channels. They come here for a romantic walk on a boat-trachiner. You will be pumped through small channels past the island of dolls. Rumor has it that once one man began to collect thrown “beauties”, and then settled with them on the island. Another legend says that the ghost of a drowned girl wanders here.
Boats with sellers who offer their goods will swim by: from souvenirs and colors that grow here, to snacks, mygot (beer with lime and a sour-ostroy pond) and a bullet (low-alcohol drink from the juice of fermented agave). On individual trahines, the Mariachs are swimming, who are ready to jump to you and perform any composition. The cost of the boat is from 500 pesos* (1,800 rubles) per hour of skiing.
After a walk, you will definitely get hungry, so you can look at the market and try it and toastades with different fillings.
The fourth day
It’s time to get acquainted with the picturesque art quarter of the capital-we go to Coyoacan. We reach the pretty blue building, in which she lived and created with her husband, artist Diego Rivera, Frida Kalo. Now it is a museum with the works of geniuses of fine art with the preserved creative situation, in which each detail matters. The cost of the entrance is 230 pesos* (830 rubles).
Literally a few steps there is the house-museum of Leo Trotsky, in which he was killed. Now here you can see the work of the Lenin ally, important documents, newspaper clippings. The entrance ticket costs 70 peso* (250 rubles). By the way, Trotsky attributed an affair with the artist. Ah, these Mexican passions!
Take a walk along Francisco Sosa Street, studying the preserved masterpiece buildings of the colonial era.
For souvenirs, go to the ARTESANAL market. In the eyes it will be charged from all decorated guitars, jewelry, national fabrics, ceramics and figurines of the goddess of the death of Santa Muerte.
Take a look at the church of St. Juan Bautist, admire the decoration and penetrate the pacified atmosphere of one of the most beautiful temples of the city. Pass past the Coyotes fountain, heading for the Viveros de Coyoacan Pitmaker. A real oasis with a variety of fauna, landscape, runners and squirrels. Correctly, the squirrels here are wild, they can attack.
You can have a bite to eat with Enchilad, you can taste cheeses and local sweets in the Coyooacan market.
The fifth day
Let’s be honest: shopping is an indispensable part of the tourist program. And we are talking not only about bazaars and markets with their plates and key chains, but also about malls. We offer to take a break in cultural affairs and go shopping, especially since the main centers with world brands and less well -known Latin American brands are concentrated in one area of Planko: Antara Fashion Hall, Miyana, Pabellon Polanso, Plaza Carso.
We pause between shopping at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Sumay. The building, reminiscent of the form of an anvil, was built at the expense of one of the richest people in the world – Carlos Slim. Here you can see 66,000 arts of art of Central America and Europe from its personal collection. Free admission.
The sixth day
A separate time should be allocated for the study of the Chapultepec park: go to the zoo and the botanical garden, take a walk along the green alleys, sitting down at the fountains, ride a catamaran along the lake. Then climb the hill to the castle of the same name, the once former residence of the governor, to see the rich decorations and the collection of carriages. The park has one of the main cultural attractions of the city – the National Museum of Anthropology. The original of the Mayan calendar and other relics of ancient civilizations are stored here. During the pandemic, the exposition may be closed, then go to get acquainted with the works of local artists at the Museum of Modern Art.
*Prices are valid at the time of publication
