Mexico Photo Gallery

Mexico Gallery

Spent a week in Mexico City with some friends who live there, and Memorial Day at Puerto Penasco. We saw the sights around town, a Day of the Dead festival, and the Aztec pyramids.

The historic 1,600 acre park in central Mexico City contains a castle, lakes, museums, amusement park, and a centuries-old forest.

Chapultepec Park

On a bench in Chapultepec Park.

From the top of Chapultepec Hill, looking across the forest to the buildings of Mexico City.

Chapultepec Forest

Parts of the castle date to the 1300s, but its current form was finished in the 1700s. It was formerly the home of Emporer Maximillian, but now houses the National History Museum.

Chapultepec Castle

Smirking it up on top of Chapultepec Hill.

Geoff in the Park

One of the lakes in Chapultepec Park.

This immense fountain was in the courtyard of the world-famous Anthropology Museum.

Museum of Anthropology

The fountain from the previous picture now features Clare standing in the midst, taking a picture (to be continued…)

Clare Misbehaves, I

(…continued) And then this corrupt gunslinger lies and claims there was a sign saying stay out of the fountain (there was no sign). So we get thrown out of the museum (probably so we'd bribe him). Fortunately, Clare convinced him to let her stay on the condition that she

Clare Misbehaves, II

In the Museum of Anthropology

This ridiculous sign explains what we Aztecs should do in case of an earthquake or fire in the museum. The second step appears to be to light a trash can on fire, which Clare obliging did in a bank the next evening.

Sismos y Incendios

A couple of tall buildings seen from the courtyard of the Museum of Anthropology

Here is the fountain in the courtyard of the museum again.

Reforma runs across the entire city and was modeled after the Champs-Élysées.

Paseo de la Reforma

A typical street corner building

For Dia de los Muertos we went to Coyoacán, a neighborhood that was the home of Diego Rivera, Frida, and Leon Trotsky. There was a huge crowd of people looking at the memorials.

Day of the Dead

Remembering deceased family members

Another example of the Mexican culmination of joy, festivity, and morbid death

This altar is for victims of political assassination, aka Amnesty International figureheads in Mexico

Political Assassinations

Africa meets the Pacific in Coyoacán.

At the Superama grocery store, amused by the Halloween/Day of the Dead M&Ms display

Engaging in the photographic arts on the metrobus

On the Metrobus

Geoff and Solomon

The rooftop of Clare's apartment building

On November 3rd, we took a one-hour-plus bus ride and got admission to the Teotihuacán ruins, all for $2.50. I am standing at the southern end of the Avenue of the Dead with the Pyramid of the Sun in the distance on the right and the Pyramid of the moon in the distance on the left. Note the specks of people on top of the Pyramid of the Sun, the second largest pyramid in the western hemisphere.

Teotihuacán began construction in 300 BC and contained 600 pyramids and a population of 200,000 people at its peak. It was the largest city in the New World before the Europeans arrived.

The Pyramid of the Sun is in the background. The city was built by the Teotihuacános, but later inhabited by the Aztecs, who threw sacrficial victims down the sides of the pyramids and then ate the cadavers.

You can see the intricate mason work in this photo.

I am standing in front of (and about to climb) the second largest pyramid in the western hemisphere - it is as tall as a 25-story building. The only pyramid larger is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, also in Mexico, which is the largest in the world.

Pyramid of the Sun

It was a long, hard climb, made even more difficult by the fact that the steps were designed for little club-footed Indians used to the 8,000 foot elevation

So here I am, 250 feet up, on top of the Pyramid of the Sun, overlooking the Valley of Mexico.

Top of the World

It is the second tallest pyramid in Teotihuacán and lies at the northern end of the Avenue of the Dead

Pyramid of the Moon

We are two-thirds of the way up the Pyramid of the Moon

Looking back at the Pyramid of the Sun from the top of the Pyramid of the Moon.

Top of the Moon

Looking south from the top of the Pyramid of the Moon at the Pyramid of the Sun, down the length of the Avenue of the Dead.

Avenue of the Dead

In the Roma neighborhood.

Clare's Apartment

Its a par-tay!

Geoff and Clare

In the Zócalo - the central plaza of Mexico City

Catedral Metropolitana

In the city center

Geoff and the Cathedral

This chapel room in the Metropolitan Cathedral was built in 1593. Once again, Mexican culture baffles me as someone stuck a broom in the statue's hands.

From the top of the Turibus, looking at some of the buildings around the Zócalo

On the bus tour around downtown Mexico City

Cupola featuring some Aztec warriors, on the bus tour

In downtown Mexico City

This iconic monument on Paseo de la Reforma commemorates the centennial of Mexico's independence.

Angel of Independence

A close-up of the gilded statue

This fine monument commemorates the crowning achievement of nationalizing the petroleum industry in Mexico in 1938.

Nationalization

This monument memorializes Presidente Benito Juarez

This was the tallest building in Mexico City when it was built

Torre Latinoamericano

Another beautiful building in dowtown Mexico City

The downtown plaza with the Cathedral in the distance.

Zócalo at Dusk

The Metropolitan Cathedral's bell tower

With the Mexican flag in the middle of the Zócalo

Mexico City Sunset

The value meal menu in the Mexico City airport.

That's the exterior of Manny's on the left. That's the ocean on the right. That's the sky on the top.

The kids gather around Mom and Dad

Sporting sweet new shades with the wonderbeard. Ah, the good old days.

Garret, Jon, Geoff, Alana, Sara, Tim… still crazy after all these years.

I just emerged from the ocean, and I'm sporting a pretty nice mullet right now.

Cruising along Sandy Beach looking for Americans.

Sunday afternoon, just woke up from a nap on the beach, enjoying the rays. Rocky Point really puts the sun in sunday.

Geoff on the Beach

Ready to rock and roll.

…even if you do not believe it.

This Is True…

The sun sets at Rocky Point, Mexico

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