Worldwide Wanderers

Museo Soumaya and Cablebus ride  - February 8, 2025   We took a bus to the Polanco neighborhood. This was even further than our bus yesterday. However, it was now Saturday where we found the buses much less busy and much more pleasant. Saturday and Sunday mornings were less busy than on the weekdays. The weekend afternoons were still busy. The Polanco neighborhood is known as a business person's neighborhood with a Rodeo Dr, Beverly Hills of Mexico City. We talked the park, down the Rodeo Dr., and I had a donut while we waited for the museum to open at 10:30 am. Museo Soumaya was a free museum (also with free restrooms; though with my donut, we had gotten change today); the building was amazing and so was the collection (much more in it than I expected).  Here was the beautiful building. It was just as beautiful inside with swirled ramps to the different levels (I estimated 6 levels) and a glass skylight at the top. I googled it, and supposedly, it cost almost $...

Archaeology Museum, Castle, and Zoo - February 7, 2025   We took the long bus ride, about 40 minutes, to the Archaeology Museum, which was to the west of us. It opened at 9am, so we planned to get there early to get in line. Travis read reviews of no water allowed. They also had a free bag check, so we left the backpack again, getting one last drink this time. We arrived and a line was started, but not too long yet, maybe 6 groups in front of us. Here is the nice bird of paradise flower outside the museum and the museum emblem. The eagle with a snake in its beak and talon is in the Mexican flag and commonly used and goes back to an Aztec legend.       Inside we went through security, visited the restroom, checked the bag, and bought tickets. It was not crowded at first but got crowded later. Nice waterfall outside the museum. The museum was broken up by civilizations, so you had to know what civilization what you wanted to see was in. The app/website did not tel...