Mexico City, day 6

Morning coffee at a different cafe

Highrise buildings

Lots of dogwalkers

Department store Palacio de Hierro Polanco

Soumaya Museum

Tacos for lunch at a little hole-in-the-wall place

Interesting building

Drinks at night

Mexico City, day 5

Various pics from our meanderings today

Museo Franz Mayer

Bank of Mexico building

Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, now an art museum

Art installation about migrants

Mexico City Congress building

Mexico City, day 4

Telmex communications tower in the background

Chinatown, two blocks long

Torre Latinoamericana in the background. Built between 1949 and 1956, it survived the 8.1 magnitude 1985 Mexico City earthquake without damage.

Folk art exhibit at Palacio de Iturbide

Super tall cakes at Pastelería Ideal

Lobby of the Gran Hotel

Former church, now a museum

Having tacos al pastor with our friend Andrew

Courtyard of the Secretaría De Educación Pública

Murals

Interesting buildings

Mexico City, day 3

The street just outside our Airbnb apartment

Highrise buildings

The Palacio de Bellas Artes, a theatre & museum

View of the theatre from the 8th floor cafe in the Sears store across the street.

A mural by Diego Rivera, now housed in its own building

We visited the Museo de Arte Popular, featuring Mexican folk art.

A Volkswagen Beetle decorated with traditional Huichol beadwork (2.3 million beads)

Teatro Metropólitan, originally built as a cinema

Hotel building

Late lunch, soup & enchiladas