north america → united mexican states → mexico city, distrito federal
just to get through what’s left in mexico…
my original plan was to go from taxco, the silver mining town to puebla. spend the day in puebla and catch a night bus going to oaxaca. spend an overnight in oaxaca, and get back on an 8-hour ride north to mexico city.
this is entirely possible if and only if the bus from taxco to puebla was not cancelled on my 4th day in mexico. i could have gone back to cuernavaca, and they have buses every hour leaving for puebla, but at that time, i just decided to go back to distrito federal, back in mexico city. i wish i had done the backtrack to cuernavaca. 
back at mexico city is not as disappointing at all as i had plenty of time roaming around the capital. ‘got back in auditorio station for the multitude of museums scattered around. i started with the anthropology museum, which is in chapultepec park. this is considered one of the most important museum in mexico as it holds significant archaelogical artifacts from pre-columbian (that is before discovery of the europeans) period. there is an original aztec stone of the sun. this symbol is one of the most popular aztec mark. it is a portrayal of the four catastrophies that destroyed the four universes prior to the universe that we know as today. on its surface are lots of hieroglypics that layouts how the aztec measured time, that this emblem is also popularly know as the aztec calendar.
more pics here
a lot of artifacts, unearthed historical findings, paintings and murals, smal scale reproduction of temples such as teotihuacan and tenochtitlan, and models of locality of various mexican tribes, it could take you more than 2 hours checking everything. a good thing in this museum is the presence of english translation of texts. costumes of natives are on display as well, and some are really weird like a man with a horse head somewhere below his torso. just imagine.
the exhibit layout is organized according to each period or location, and its better to start from the right side (upon entrance) going to left. it begins with an introduction to anthropology, which features the prehistoric man, and a copy of famous lucy, an australopithecus, ancestral to the genus homo. other sections includes the american settlement, sacred regions such as teotihuacan, the toltecs, aztecs, and rich indigenous people in oaxaca, and the mayas among others.
the museum is set on a huge space with exhibits lined around forming a square, in the middle is an artificial pond, and a square shelter supported only by a single mid pillar. resembling an umbrella, this structure is known as el paraguas, spanish for “the umbrella”.
a really nice morning history trip.
