This weekend was my second descanso. A group of 8 of us hopped the bus to Mexico City. When it comes to cities, Mexico put all of its eggs in one basket...it is the epicenter of the country, if not Latin America. It started as the hub of the Aztecs and is now flooded with at least 22 million people. It represents the extremes of the country from the billionaires to communities that literally live in the sewers. Just riding the subway you can see how many people are scrapping for a living, selling anything from gum, to batteries, to CD's. Amazingly it seems like they're making it work. It's also famously known for its pollution. I took the bottom picture from a bar on the 48th floor of a building downtown. You can appreciate the haze that hangs over the city. The pollution in the air literally makes your nail beds brown. In two days I could only scratch the surface of this impressively huge city.
This weekend was my second descanso. A group of 8 of us hopped the bus to Mexico City. When it comes to cities, Mexico put all of its eggs in one basket...it is the epicenter of the country, if not Latin America. It started as the hub of the Aztecs and is now flooded with at least 22 million people. It represents the extremes of the country from the billionaires to communities that literally live in the sewers. Just riding the subway you can see how many people are scrapping for a living, selling anything from gum, to batteries, to CD's. Amazingly it seems like they're making it work. It's also famously known for its pollution. I took the bottom picture from a bar on the 48th floor of a building downtown. You can appreciate the haze that hangs over the city. The pollution in the air literally makes your nail beds brown. In two days I could only scratch the surface of this impressively huge city.
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