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Day 4 - Would you cut off my foot please?

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Everyone that wants to travel around the world should at least get to know their country. This is my attempt at getting to know Mexico. Won't be able to travel all the country at once, but this will try to cover my journey through the years, one state at the time.

Day 4 - Would you cut off my foot please?

National antropology museum

Since yesterday my right foot has been aching, apparently I have some sort of muscular injury and it hurts like hell when I walk, but if someone else can do it, then I can do it too. The day started very early for us, because we wanted to go to Chapultepec and make the most of it. Before leaving I booked us a couple of tours for the next two days, because they were to far away places and I wanted to visit them without wasting any time.  Everything ok for my foot at first because we took a Metrobus and then used the subway to get to Chapultepec, so I hadn't really walked much.

We arrived so early that we had to wander for a while, because nothing would be open for another half an hour. I used this opportunity to walk around the park a little and take some pictures of squirrels that are quite abundant in there.

When we were making our way for the castle (which now is the national museum of history) we came across a couple of monuments for the niños Heroes. When the time to open was near, Carlos walked and I limped uphill to the castle. We infact arrived so early that we had to wait a couple mins for it to open, and still we got inside for free because we arrived early. I would've taken pics from the museum but they didn't allow any pictures at all in there.

I forgot to mention that at this time both my arms were also looking huge, because Carlos wanted to leave the window open at night. Therefore, both my arms were bitten by the mosquitos...actually one of my arms had about 30+.  Anyway, we we finished we walked through the park in the general direction of the Chapultepec Zoo (the most important in latinamerica) and were harassed by people trying to sell food and we decided to eat as we hadn't had any breakfast yet.

Then we continued towards the zoo while taking a few pics of the Lake or Lagoon, yeah that's more like it.

The rest of the day was spent half at the zoo and the other half at the national museum of antropology. At the museum I was able to enter for free showing my student ID, while Carlos (he studies at El Paso) had to pay the full ticket price. Lastly, when we returned to the hotel I watched a football match on TV while we rested for a while we ate hamburgers on one of the few businesses still open on the street near the hotel.

National antropology museum
National antropology museum
I love Llamas!
I love Llamas!
I love them too
I love them too
me at the National antropology m…
me at the National antropology m...
Chapultepec lake
Chapultepec lake
Chapultepec lake 2
Chapultepec lake 2
Chapultepec Castle (on the back)
Chapultepec Castle (on the back)
Chapultepec castle
Chapultepec castle
inside the chapultepec castle
inside the chapultepec castle
Carlos playing with the camera =S
Carlos playing with the camera =S
pakals tomb
pakal's tomb
niños heroes monument
niños heroes monument
Chapultepec is really one of the must see places in Mexico City. It is a huge park that has one hill that has the Castle. The castle is now the National museum of history and if you arrive before they open(9am), maybe you can get in for free just like we did. Also in the park you can find several monuments, the museum of modern art, a zoo that is allegedly the most important in lantinamerica and the lake.

Just outside the chapultepec park you find the National Museum of Antropology which is quite large. On the bottom floor you can find all sorts of pieces from the pre-hispanic cultures that inhabited Mexico, and on the top floor you can find objects from ethnic groups that still inhabit some parts of Mexico.
Chapultepec park
Chapultepec lake
Chapultepec Castle from afar
Chapultepec Castle from up close
9,749 km (6,058 miles) traveled
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