Mexico 2023 May
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## Important
- [ ] Cash $15k
- [ ] Passport
- [ ] i797
- [ ] mask

## best neighborhood

roma norte
condesa

many coffee shops!

## Really want to try
- El Jarocho (Greate Tacos, rec by reddit and youtube)
- La Riffa (Sophia really want to go! Chocolate factory)
- Rosetta Panaderia
- Tizoncito in La Condesa (try al pastor)
- Nico's
- La Casa de Toño (Chain )
- Taquería Álvaro Obregón (半筋半肉taco)
- Taqueria Orinoco
- Expendio de Maíz
- El Visto

## Day 1:
Arrive at Mexico 4:05 am
### Breakfast
- El Borrego Viudo open 24 hour
- Cafe el Jarocho open at 6 , chain store recommend by reddit
- Pan dulce in hotel open ay 6:30am
- Nico's
- Azul in La Condesa
- Chilpa (reddit, build your own chilaquiles, closed to hotels)
- Fonda Garufa open at 8am
- Le Pain Quotidien, Condesa open at 8am
- Café Nin open at 7 am opened by owner of Rosetta
- Finca Don Porfirio To see Palacio de Bellas Artes open at 11 am
- Rosetta Panaderia opened at 7am
- Casa del Fuego opend at 8am
- **La Riffa (Sophia really want to go! Chocolate factory)**
### Morning
#### La Condesa
- Castillo de Chapultepec Open at 9 am - 5pm
- Casa Estudio Luis Barragán (Section 1in Castle)
- National Museum of Anthropology Open at 10am (9am - 6pm)
- Camino Real Hotel (Cool construction)

### Lunch
- Booked 12:45 pm at Quintonil!

### Afternoon
#### Centro
- Plaza Garibaldi
- Temple Mayor
- Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral
- Zócalo
- Palacio de Bellas Artes (Sun entrance is free) closed at 6pm

### Dinner
- Booked at Licoreria Limantour at 7:30 pm 05/25
- Booked at Rosetta 8:30 pm 05/25

### Late Night
- Licorería Limantour (Near Rosetta) Number 4 in The 50 Best Bars in the World 2022.
- Handshake Speaksy (by reddit, world's 50 best bar)
- Tokyo Music Bar (Near Hotrl)
- Xaman
- Fifty Mils (closed to Hotel 1 min)
- GinGin (Near Hotel)
- **La Clandestina for Mezcal Tasting**
### Others
- Frida Kahlo Museum
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## Day 2
### Breakfast
- TBD
### Morning
- 7 - 10 am Volare Shared Balloon Flight
#### Teotihuacan
- Better to buy round trip bus ticket
- Recommend go to this hot air baloon tour (recommend by Reddit multiple times)
- [Recommend by Reddit] https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/2352388?adults=1&guests=1&s=42&unique_share_id=014cf119-4b35-4298-892e-f45e8c23befe&_branch_match_id=1185488981221175300&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXT0zKS9LLTdX3zvTxy8i2iCovSAIAcYrrYhsAAAA%3D
- volare
- https://fareharbor.com/embeds/book/volare/items/
- 7am - 10 am

- Can also consider the air bnb exp recommended by metamates
- https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/381092?startDate=2023-05-25&adults=2&fbclid=IwAR0TKlMz_Ar7bMhatApGzlpH-xH6oBULi0Mw2e9yBkVKQMCgTiU2fUOzoac&endDate=2023-05-26

- Also another tour recommended by reddit
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/AttractionProductReview-g150800-d11453038-Teotihuacan_Early_Access_tour_with_Tequila_Tasting-Mexico_City_Central_Mexico_and_.html

- [Sophia] I prefer take the hot air baloon, and climb the pyramid ourselves
### Lunch
- La Gruta
- Recommended by reddit
- Booked at 11:00 am!
- Dine in a cave! Food is OK
### Dinner
- Booked Club Tango Hambre 5:30 pm - 9pm
- TBD
- Ticuchi
- **Booked at 05/26 9:50 pm**
- Pujol's new spot
- Vegetarian Restaurant

### Late Night
- Patrick Miller only open on Friday
- pulqueria los insurgentes
- Live music and bar (reddit)

- Fünk Club
- Near hotel
- Open wed - sat

- Pulquería Las Duelistas to drink
- pulque, the pre-Hispanic fermented agave sap
- Pulqueria los Insurgentes
- Chill Bar
- Roaming around the back streets of Roma Norte late at night Saturday there were a ton of parties going on, half of them I couldn't figure out where the entrance was, other half wasn't my scene.
- Parker & Lenox

## Day 3
### Morning
- Ballet Folklorico (Recommend Performance in Mexico)
- https://www.balletfolkloricodemexico.com.mx/presentaciones-ballet-de-mexico-amalia-hernandez/action~agenda/request_format~json/
- No tickers :(
- 9:30 am / 9 pm
- Soumaya Museum 10:30 - 6:30pm
- Torre Latinoamericana
- Palocio Postal 8 - 7:30 weekday, Sat 10 - 4, Sun 10 - 2
- The house of tiles
- Monument of revolution
- Library Vasconcelos 8:30 - 7:30

### Afternoon
#### Xochimilco
- Booked at 12pm - 3:30pm
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-z9Dfh3vTM
- Airbnb Experience
- Recommend by Reddit
- https://www.airbnb.com/experiences/462243?source=wl&adults=2&endDate=2023-05-27
- https://www.trajinerasxochimilco.com.mx/
- https://www.xochiquetzalli7.com.mx/servicios.html
Seriously, 1-2 hours isn't enough. There are two path ways. One is the party route that is more for locals and has lots of things to buy and mariachis to pay. The other is longer and quieter and more romantic but it goes by La Isla de la Muñecas, the island of the dolls. Which is was the direction I went on my honeymoon!
You must try the tlacoyos at La Chingada and you must drink pulque on the trajinera! Also, if you're brave enough go visit La Isla de la Muñecas. Bring cash in small bills and tip your gondalier well! And if you speak a lick of Spanish ask lots of questions. There's a play every year about La Llorona so if you're there in October catch that!
tip the trajinero at least 200 pesos.
### Colonia Juárez'
### Afternoon
- TBD
- El Bazar Sábado Only on Saturday closed at 7

### Others
- Tetetlán cultural center
- Colonia Juárez'
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## Day 4
### Breakfast
### Morning
Take ADO Buses to Publa / Cholula
#### Cholula
- authentic poblano cuisine: mural de los poblanos [restaurant]
- Pulque, which is an alcoholic drink from Aztec times

- A kind of drink: Pulque
- Great Pyramid of Cholula

#### Pueble
- El Mural de los Poblanos
- Food to try:
- Mole is the most common, but cemitas, Chiles en Nogada (seasonal dish that will be in season during your trip) & tacos árabes (similar to Al pastor, but (Fonda santa clara is great for it)
- Tacos Arabes originated from Puebla
- Eat some pumpkin flower and wild mushroom quesadillas and memelas in Paseo bravo, unsanitary as fuck but sooooooooo tasty
- cemitas
- Birria tacos en Cholula

- Go to the "Palacio Municipal" first (in the main plaza), there's a tourism office where you can get flyers, directions and precise information, very helpful staff.
- Callejon de los Sapos (alley of the frogs)
- There's a bar called **La Pasita** that sells some interesting liqueurs
- Nearby Callejon de los Sapos is "El Parian" where you can buy different types of handcrafts.
- Capillo del Rosario (Church)
- Museo Amparo
- Mercado de Artesenias El Parian
- good shopping on 5 de Mayo, a street in central Puebla
- 10 - 9 pm
- take a cab to "[Los fuertes] (http://www.visitmexico.com/en/forts-of-loreto-and-guadalupe-in-puebla-mexico)" where the ballte of "Cinco de mayo" was fought and won.
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### Breakfast

### Night Life
- n Sundays there is a day party in El Centro called Sunday Sunday that was awesome too
- Bósforo is a mezcalería tucked behind red curtains

### Dinner

### Food to try
- Doña Emi Tamales (Tradditional mexican breakfast)
- chilaquiles (breakfast)
- elote (corn in the cub)
- All made with masa
- Tortilla. (flat)
- Quesadilla (fold in half)
- Taco (rolled up)
- El Califa
- Taco Dorado (roll uped and deep fried)
- Contado means add evwrything
- El Vilsito
- Chilorio (on flour) at La Tonina
- Ricos Taco de Mixiote at the Tianguis Condesa Market
- Tacos de Pescado at Tacos El Patan
- Chorizo Verde at Ricos Taco Toluca
- La Choza in Lomas de sotelo
- El Jarocho
- Las Brasas in Av. Centenario
- Tacos Hola El Güero
- El Rey del Suadero
- mentioned in restaurants above, this places serves tacos de guisado, or stewed meats and vegetables kept in clay pots on a flame and spooned out onto tortillas to order. Adobo and acelgas are go-tos. For vegetarians, [Wife] recommends “torta de coliflor” (a breaded cauliflower) with guacamole and cheese. Open until 9:00
- Patties
- Gordita (foled up stuffed with pork catcus wheat)
- Tlacayo (stuff with ben ad cheese)
- Los Parados:
- Green Chorizo
- La rifa favorite place for chocolate
- Birri
- La Polar
- suadero,
- a thin cut of beef between belly and leg,
- El Rey del Suadero
- Pozole / Soup
- La Casa de Toño

- pastor de arrachera
- thin sliced beef prepared pastor style.

### South
- Corazon de Maguey for breakfast
- la cocina de mi mama for lunch
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria • Central Library • Universum • Estadio Olimpico Universitario

## Day 5:
Go back
- Grutas Tolantongo

Goodbye Folk Vintage Boutique

## Mexico
- Oaxaca (best place for good food)
- San cristobeal
- San Jose del Pacifico.
- Merida
- San Miguel
- Chiapas
- Querétaro
- Hildago,
- San Luis Potosí,
- Chiapas

### Mexico City
- Live at Four Season CDMX
- Pyramid of the Moon
- Pyramid of the Sun
- Xochimilco, Coyoacán and Frida Kahlo Museum Tour
- Food Tour
- https://eatlikealocal.com.mx/?fbclid=IwAR0jIvha0RpTmimsycuq9cut4y-VUh-DZ6W1Hq4UfeMPLq10B0Ii-uv6QOo

- Lucha Libre
- Palacio Bellas Artes
- National Museum of Anthorology
- Xochimilco + Casa Azual
- Porfirio's
- Food TOur
- https://clubtengohambre.com/

- La Clandestina Mezcal Tasting

## Restaurants
### Highly Recommend!
- Rosetta
- Booked at 8:30 pm 05/25
- Checking if can booked
- Pujol
- Cannot booked
- Quintnil
- Cannot booked

- Expendio de Maíz
- Rec by Reddit
- cash only
- No reservation

- Nico's
- Reddit
- Have some seats
- Try the bone marrow sope and the rabbit in pipián mole. Good cocktails. Late breakfast is also a good option.
-** Booked 05/26 11:00am**

- Café Nin
- From owner of Rosetta's
- Reddit

- Ticuchi
- **Booked at 05/26 9:50 pm**
- Pujol's new spot
- Vegetarian Restaurant
- https://ticuchi.mx/reservaciones/
- Not many good seats, vegetarian restaurant

-** Azul in La Condesa**
- Recommended by Metamates
- Still have seats
- https://www.azul.rest/en
- Considered booked

- **Azul Histórico in Centro**
- Reddit for breakfast

- Rosetta Panaderia
- Bakery
- Open at 7 am
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- Handshake Speakeasy
- Reddit

- La Casa de Tono
- Rec by Metamates
- Late night food
- May not be good anymore
- Tres Galeones
- Recommend by Metamates
- Tacos

- La Lechuza in Coyoacán
- Great tacos rec by Reddit

- Zanaya dentro del Four Seasons.
- Sud 777
- **Booked at 05/26 7pm**
- Latin #23, world#52
- Reddit has bad reviews

- Casa Virginia
- Redditt
- Has seats
### Neighborhood
- Polanco

### Cholula
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5PrU3tMxgQ

### Puebla

### Tepoztlá

### Oaxaca (May Need to go By Flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFjsvRJ1zNY
- Co 404
- Nude Beach
- Hierve el Agua
- Monte Albán
- Cooking Tour
- A show Mcro Enormous
https://fengshengtravel.com/%E5%A2%A8%E8%A5%BF%E5%93%A5%E6%97%85%E9%81%8A-%E7%93%A6%E5%93%88%E5%8D%A1oaxaca-%E6%99%AF%E9%BB%9E%E3%80%81%E7%BE%8E%E9%A3%9F%E6%8C%87%E5%8D%971%E6%AC%A1%E5%88%86%E4%BA%AB/

### Tepoztlan

### Veracruz
Nature Place