Mexico City Experience

D.F. - Distinctly Fascinating

Advantages: I've NEVER been ANYWHERE like it
Disadvantages: Read and find out

...reviews on specific attractions in Mexico City, listed separately on this site, so what I would like to do is to give you an overview of what day to day life is like in this city, to prepare you should you ever choose to visit. I arrived in Mexico City also called DF (Federal District) in July last year and was immediately inducted into the wonder that is the rainy season. My new flatmate took me to the supermarket, we stocked up and, the minute ...
...have no passable equivalent, but Mexico does. Even in the city centre, you never have to travel hard to find a WalMart, a Mega or a Soriana. These are supplemented by various smaller versions, which the locals rather exasperatingly insist on calling "Mini Supers" when any sensible person would call them "Mini Markets". Even smaller still are the Abarrotes, or tiny grocers, which often operate from behind steel bars in rather charming way. The large ...

zoe_page 06.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Mexico City (Mexico)

A fantastic city

Advantages: Buzzing, exciting, fantastic shops, full of culture
Disadvantages: hot

...I decided to go to Mexico City people kept telling me not to go, that it was a bad idea. However the city city proved them all to be completely wrong. Mexico's capital has a bad reputation that seems to me entirely undeserved. I went a year ago with a young female friend and we had the time of our lives. We didn't get bored, mugged, or altitude sickness once. Nor did I find the pollution and crowds any less tolerable than I do in London. Yes it is ...
...restaurants are often fully air-conditioned. The potential cultural expeditions are abundant, whether within the city or on short day-trips to the close-by Mayan ruins. The city has a great atmosphere that I expected to find threatening but did not, even on the subway with a massive rucksack, or walking back to the hotel in the evening. The shops are fabulous, the architecture stunning, the people friendly and the exchange rate amazing. Don't let ...

navyblueyou 05.07.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Mexico City (Mexico)

A Heaving Hub Of Hidden Delights

Advantages: Stunning artwork, more pleasant than its reputation might let on
Disadvantages: Busy, polluted, manic ...

...largest cities in the world, Mexico City, its country's capital, comes with something of a reputation; several people expressed suprise that I would want to travel to somewhere seen as weighed down by crime, pollution and traffic. However, as is often the case, the hype proved (for me at least) to be at best something of an exaggeration. The heart of the country in political, economic and historical terms - the nation was born at its centre when ...
...became the Mexican emblem - Mexico City is a vast sprawling settlement situated around 2,000 metres above sea level. The Zocalo is very much the hub of the city; the third largest square in the world (behind Red and Tianamen) is a great concrete expanse, and though not especially appealing in itself, is rather striking for its immense scale, and is bordered by both the Palacio National, containing a number of stunning Diego Rivera murals, and the ...

Puggers 10.07.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Mexico City (Mexico)

VIVA MEXICO

Advantages: More filled with excitement than Robbie Williamses pants
Disadvantages: Keep your ehad screwed on and there are none.

Mexico City. The world’s fourth biggest city, with probably one of the worst reputations. I went there not by choice but out of necessity because that was the only way you could have gotten me there. I was living in Mexico, about five hours away from Mexico City in a place called San Luis Potosi when my passport ran out. That meant only one thing. A trip to the British Embassy in Mexico City. I was terrified. Because you read about it don’t you? ...
...in Mexico City. You read that Mexico has the highest Kidnapping rate in the world. (It’s just taken over from Columbia) You read about people that only stepped out of their hotel rooms for a second and are mugged on the doorstep. So I wasn’t looking forward to it. This is what I found. We took the bus in and hit Mexico City at about four o’clock in the afternoon. There is a point where once you have been driving into the city for about half an ...

xelan 08.08.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Mexico City (Mexico)

beautiful City with resistances

Advantages: beutiful places,friendly people,cheap
Disadvantages: unsafety

Mexico city its a beautiful city but with problems about contamination,security and bad cups. hotels very good and no expensives restaurants very good and many restaurants are cheap transport its dangeorus only take taxi from hotels or established places. tacos, pozole, paella are some of the subjects of gossip that can be eaten there are many Spanish restaurants in where it is possible to be eaten very flavorful and abundant and much money ...

w9000 12.09.2000 · Read full review
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