Centro Historico

My blogs are currently at a 2 week delay. After Sandra and I got back from Guadalajara and Tequila, we explored the Centro Histórico. I had overlooked the Centro Histórico for the last few months because there are ton of people there and it's not exactly relaxing, but it was very much worth it. Mostly pictures in this post.

The most Mexican bug ever

Molcajete. It's a lava rock bowl filled with all kinds of meat, cactus, onion, and salsa verde. We ate it with freshly made corn tortillas. 

We found this in a market in Mexico City. It's jamón ibérico, which comes from Sandra's home town of Guijuelo, Spain (population 7,000).

Mercado de San Juan. You can buy ANYTHING here. I'm told you can even buy lion meat. There were tuna, sharks, piglets, sheep, agave worms (gusanos de maguey), turkeys, geese, chicken, etc...

After the Mercado de San Juan, we went to the Palacio de Bellas Artes to see some of the works by Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco (same guy from the Guadalajara chapel). All of the murals are extremely jam packed and complicated. They tell stories, but if the guide isn't there to tell you the story, it's almost impossible to figure out. 

Prostitute with some guns and stuff

Guy that looks like Hitler and some animal faced people.

Apparently "La Gran Victoria" is a reference to the battle won by Mexico on 5 de mayo (not their independence day). 

In this picture the donkeys have blue eyes. Apparently, their blue eyes symbolizes that they are foreigners (gringos). The blue eyed donkeys in suits are writing a contract to take advantage of the Mexican people. Each character in the mural has a meaning just like the donkeys, it's just really hard to figure out.

Something about Robin Hood.

This mural was amazing. It showed the history of everything. You can see Lenin on the right side. There were tons of references to communism, nazism, science, the elite class, the proleteriat, and others. 

The view from the Torre LatinAmericana. Mexico City is a BIG place. Sandra and I discovered that instead of paying $80 pesos to go to the crowded viewing deck, you can pay nothing and go to the bar 2 floors below the viewing deck and have a beer for $45 pesos with a table. 

View of Palacio de Bellas Artes