Sunday, January 13, 2008

Mexico Day 3


Teotihuacan
We didn't eat breakfast with the Quakers. Kelli was wearing the same clothes for a third day and felt a little embarrassed so we just ate breakfast when we got to the bus station. We took a bus to Teotihuacan . We got there and there was a rope demonstration. One guy was playing an instrument and 4 guys twirled around, being held only by their ankle with rope. We crashed a tour which was in Spanish. I believe it was a free tour. We learned all about Quetzocoatl temple, and the significance of a lot of different things. We learned about other temples and buildings in that structure.
The tour we jumped on was a soccer team of all latinos who were from California. Their coach asked us to spend the week with them watching their games and hanging out. We were tempted but there was other things we wanted to do down there.
We then walked over to the inside of one of the smaller temples. However, there was a group of gringos doing some sort of ceremony complete with ummit was the weirdest thing. It almost looked like a Lesbian Wiccan commitment ceremony. They were chanting and one person would go up to a crack in the rock and lift their arms and chant and then go and kiss their partner. We then went up to the temple del sol-the 2nd tallest pyramid in the americas and third in the world. It was rainy, but pretty cool up there.
Afterwards we walked over to another temple and looked around. Some of the original paintings were barely visible there. We walked up to the top of the Moon pyramid and sat on top for a bit and looked around. We walked over to the Museum of teotihucan which was really cool. There was a model of what Teotihuacan probably looked like and a bunch of artifacts.
Afterwards, we took the bus back to Mexico City and got some tamales at the vendor there at the bus station. Those tamales and hot chocolate rocked. By that time, it was getting kind of late so we went back to the hostel neighborhood to pack our stuff to head to Oaxaca in the morning. We ate 4 for a dollar mini tacos that rocked. Seriously awesome. We then got banana licuados and called it a night.

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