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• Note-Mexico pictures taken with poor quality single use cameras. Never again. First restaurant stop in Monterrey
• The VIPS restaurant chain is a good one
• A rainy courtyard in San Luis Potosi
• Colonial architecture
• The street on the zocolo
• Our tour group in front of the church
• Driving into Mexico City
• The entrance to the Guadalupe Churches
• Arnie on the churches courtyard
• One of the older Guadalupe Churches
• Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe (Our Lady of Guadalupe)
• Notice how the churches have sunk below the sidewalk
• The Shrine of Guadalupe
• Downtown Mexico City near our hotel
• Out for a stroll
• Near our hotel
• Approaching the main square of Mexico City (zocolo)
• Government Buildings
• These are some of the murals from Diego Riviera
• Diego Riviera mural (blurry picture)
• Kathy in the zocolo
• Goverment Palace at the zocolo
• Mexican hairless dogs
• Demonstration of extracting algave cactus juice for wine (and tequila)
• The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan (north of Mexico City)
• Building foundations at the site
• Around 300 steps to the top
• No guard rails, so watch your step
• View from half way up
• Kathy at the top (view North)
• Arnie and other Mexican tourists
• Lots of visitors make the climb to the top
• Looking south
• Our tour guide, Pedro, invited us to his home for refreshments
• Pedro and family. Their home is between Teotihuacan and Mexico City.
• They have a beautiful home and back courtyard.
• Que bonita (How pretty!)
• Pedro's front yard.
• South to Xochimilco and the floating gardens
• These colorful gondolas float in the remaining canals of Mexico City
• Our group was in two gondolas
• Pedro had organized a lunch for us on the gondola ride
• Another gondola had a Marachi band that serenaded us
• The gondola skipper with pole
• Cold beers were available with the lunch
• It's a crowded, noisy, fun time on the water
• On the bus back to the center of Mexico City
• Kathy at a restaurant stop in Cuernavaca south of Mexico City
• The catherdral in Cuernavaca
• In front of our bus in Cuernavaca
• Just outside of Taxco, between Cuernavaca and Acapulco
• You take a hair raising taxi ride to the center of Taxco
• The zocolo (main square) in Taxco, an extremely hilly city of silversmiths
• Great view of Taxco from our restaurant's upper deck
• The food and the views were terrific
• The adjoining restaurant roaming musicians
• Some of our tour group and musicians
• The main church in Taxco
• Along the narrow and twisted streets
• A nice restaurant in the mountains between Mexico City and Tampico (on the Gulf Coast)
• Great coffee is grown in this region
• A grainy, rainy picture of our hotel in Tampico
• The shopping area of Tampico is nice, in spite of the poor photo
• Our last rest stop between Tampico and returning to McAllen through Reynosa.