Museum and Zoo

After breakfast of yogurt and coffee at 7-eleven, we took the metro to the Bosque de Chapultepec la Secciòn, a huge, beautiful park in the middle of the city. The name means ¨Hill of Grasshoppers¨ in Nàhuatl, the Aztec language. It´s over 4 sq km, and has lots of trees, paths, lakes and museums. We headed past the Monumento a Los Niños Hèroes and walked to the National Museum of Anthropology. This museum is huge, and we spent most of the morning and afternoon there. We saw lots of stuff from the various ruins sites we´ve been to around the country. It was great to see things that were discovered at the sites which we had read about while there. I think the highlights were the famous Aztec sun stone and a tomb from Monté Alban.

After the museum, we walked further through the park to the zoo to spend a few more hours wandering. We were amazed at how good this zoo is, especially considering it´s in Mexico City and it´s free! Of course we had just come to see the big cats and some pandas they have (this is the only place outside of China where pandas have been born in captivity), but they have a lot of animals.

It was after 5:00 by the time we got back to the hotel, and we headed out to get some dinner before relaxing for the evening.