Mexico City 3-Day Highlights Itinerary

This itinerary is the perfect introduction to Mexico City, including both major sights and insiders places. Overcome safety and transportation concerns with many useful tips and directions on how to move around in the city as an independent traveller. Save money and time using public transportation. Includes a walking tour of historical downtown, the best parks and museums in the city center, and two day excursions (the south of the city and the nearby Teotihuacán pyramids ruins), with many explanations and insight-providing pictures. Clear and specific directions to each of the destinations. The directions are supplemented with pictures and maps to further reduce your chances of getting lost! Special attention to handicrafts, local religion and legends, folklore, markets, and bars provides you with the experience of a Mexico City local. Sights & activities in this itinerary: Main downtown buildings and monuments: Cathedral, National Palace, Fine Arts Palace. Many references to the country’s history and the Aztec foundations (Templo Mayor, Chapultepec Castle). Traditional food and Mexican beer or tequila in cantinas and markets. Colonial palaces of the rich Spanish families. Historic shopping malls and club buildings from early 1900s. Check out typical handicrafts in shops and markets. Walk in one of the biggest parks in Latin America, Chapultepec. Take a boat ride through centuries of traditional farming on floating gardens. Visit the biggest basilica church and pilgrimage center of Latin America, dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe. Awe at the magnificent pyramids of a lost city, 1500 years ago it was almost as big as Rome, with incredible decorations, crafts and a complex irrigation system. Explore the best and trendiest nightlife. Discover the roots of Mexican indigenous culture in the National Anthropology Museum. Enjoy the bright colors of Mexican historic mansions in the suburbs. Discover the life of the most famous Mexican painters, Diego Rivera and Fri