Mexico City
Well, we still can’t travel anywhere, so I thought I’d contribute some photos from our trip to Mexico City a year and a half ago, in October of 2018. This was our second trip to Mexico City in the last three years, because t’s a relatively short flight for us. This time we stayed near the center of the old city.
We were within walking distance of the Museo de Arte Popular (Folklore Museum), which was one of the reasons we went. Here is a beaded Beetle, which greets you when you walk in:
Here is a detail of same:
The museum sponsored a parade of fantastical creatures which we saw:
The parade featured dancers, marching bands, mariachi bands, and well over 100 of the creatures. It took a couple of hours.
Ah, the days before social distancing!
We also visited an art museum situated in an incredibly beautiful, lush park, the Museo Dolores Olmedo Patino.
The museum park featured a pack of Xoloitzcuintle dogs (Mexican hairless dogs, known as Xolos for short). This breed is supposedly 3,000 years old, and was worshiped by the Aztecs. They’re fairly rare nowadays, I believe.