Day 298 – Mexico City
Exploring Mexico City on foot
Today I tried to repair the soles of my shoes that keep coming out. With a lot of super glue, I am hoping that my DFO Sketches hold together. We then went out for breakfast at a restaurant close by to Capital O Frida Costazul Hotel, called Bro House. It has really good food at a very reasonable price.
We decided to walk around town today. Along the way we purchased some apples from the side of the road. We ended up eating the apples a few hours later, and they were horrible. We haven’t had much luck buying food from local stores over here.
Street Art 
Templo De San Francisco
As we were walking towards the Historic Centre, we came across the Templo De San Francisco. This church looks small from the outside, but it’s a different story inside. It is a very large building.
Palacio Postal
Our next destination was a post office, but oh boy, it was an amazing building. We actually were going to post some excess clothing, my broken sunglasses and souvenirs back to Melbourne. The 1kg parcel cost us 480 MXN / $36.03 AUD. Inside the lavish post office is a small art display to one side, a grand staircase in the middle and the actual post office on the other side. Its really cool.
Palacio de Bellas Artes / Alameda Central
Just across the road is the Palacio de Bellas Artes, which is a beautiful building. The dome on top of the building is gorgeous. Unfortunately as we were here on a Monday, the museum was closed. We could enter the lobby of the building, but that was it.
The Palacio de Bellas Artes is inside the Alameda Central, which is a large park. The park was very busy with plenty of people walking down the shaded paths or chilling on the many benches. There was also several amazing water features at the footpath intersections. We sat around a fountain as we ate those disgusting apples..
Hemiciclo a Juarez
Monumento Revolucion Mexicana
The Monument of Mexican Revolution was our next destination. The building was built in 1900 as the Federal Legislative Palace. However in 2010, the building was restored to celebrate the Mexican Revolution.
There are two types of entrance tickets. Ordinary Access for 70 MXN / $5.26 AUD or Full Access for 90 MXN / $6.76 AUD per person. The only difference is that the Full Access tickets includes a viewpoint at the top of the building. We took the Full Access ticket, as it was only a few dollars more.
You start the journey by descending into the foundations that are full of steel beams. Decorations of glass guns and bullets are through out the structure. The firearms are meant to represent the armed conflict that occurred during the revolution. There is a lot of information about the building and only what felt like generic information about the revolution itself. I ended up having to ask a staff member, who actually fought during the revolution. I was assuming it was a revolution from the Spanish, but I was told that it was a conflict between Mexicans only.
Once we were done, with the foundations, we took a lift up into the inner dome. As we walked around the dome, we had nice views of the city. We had some crepes at the small cafe here, before descending to the bottom.
As we were leaving the site, we realised that the full access promotional photos showed another view point that we never saw. After asking the staff, who knew basic English, we found out we missed the entire Full Access section. We had to go back up the lift and after the cafe, there is another access point to go further up. You get to walk inside the inner and outer dome to the viewpoint. The views are similar to the ones from the inner dome, but it was nice to walk inside the dome structure.
El Angel de la Independencia
We then walked past a very cool statue in the centre of a massive roundabout, which is the Angel of Independence. There were some people setting up a presentation at the base of the statue, but they allowed us to walk around and take photos.
Castillo de Chapultepec
Unfortunately, we arrived at the gates of the park holding the Castillo de Chapultepec too late. The security guard was only letting people out, but no one could go into the grounds. The building itself is closed on Mondays, but we were hoping to see it from outside.
La Condesa
We decided to walked through a high end area called La Condesa. Its mainly a residential area from what we could tell. The main street with touristy shops is Avenue Michoacan.
Parque Espana Sushi Itto
We decided to have a sushi dinner from a very nice restaurant called Sushi Itto. Our waiter, couldn’t speak English so a friendly guy from the store next door, acted as our translator. People here are really friendly.
After dinner, we were sick of walking so we caught the subway from the nearby Juanacatlan Station to Isabel la Catolica Station. From here we just walked back to our hotel for our last night in Mexico City.
My shoes didn’t last the full day of walking around the beautiful streets of Mexico City.