DF

I spent a few days in this wonderful city in the summer of 06.   To be honest, I didn't care much about this city, until that is I tried a hawaiian torta outside the "metro". This city is, in my opinion, the NY of latin America with the difference that is a lot cheaper. Great food, nice people, cheap, cheap, cheap and lots of things to see. I stayed at some hotel downtown, a couples of blocks from plaza mayor (main square) and to my surprise it was safe enough to walk out at night looking for torta stands. Comparing it to Lima, in my opinion, DF is safer. Obviously, you need to have some precautions, like you would in any other big city, but overall I had a great time without any incidents. We would walk outside at nigth, (NEVER ALONE) and I remember this band playing (spanish rock) in the outside patio of a restaurant and then all of a sudden people who were passing by started to dance, they made a circle holding hands and run clockwise, then they started moshing. The singer came out and joined, too! It was awsome!!
I used trains for most of my transportation around town, if you are familiar with this kind of systems, it's soooo easy to get around. To be honest, travel books did their part, too. The main sites I saw and LOVED, were the ruins at Teotihuacan, is better to go as early as you can since it can get crowded and bring confy shoes!! I also liked xochimilco, but the best part of all, was all the cheap food, I finally realized the best food is always the ones sold in the street!
I also venture into "el chopo", here is where all the punk kids get together, find about shows and it's also a flee market. I found this place very interesting. The national museum of antrhoplogy is also a good place to go to and zona rosa, too. As well as the basilic of Guadalupe, which is very impressive. In the same site you can find stairs that will bring you to Tepeyac, the cool thing about this is that it seems it was built on top of a ruin, so if you see closely there are some aztec statues in what looks like a fountain. It's really neat.