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                <title>Mexico City, Morelia, Patzcuaro, and Guadalajara</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Fly to Mexico City, spend about five days there, then bus to Morelia for a couple of days, then taxi to Patzcuaro for three days, staying at Villa Victoria, and finally on to Guadalajara for three days. Fly home from there.  Gorgeous!]]></description>
                
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                <title>satnav for car hire</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Driving a car in mexico is rewarding - other drivers are courteous. However road direction signs are few and misleading and some get vandalized. Everybody gets lost. Bring your own satnav with the right software. You could buy one with the local hire cost!  You will cut hours from your journeys.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Museo Nacional de Antropología</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The best museum on western hemisphere and probably the best museum in the world. <br>All the collection and exhibits are absolutely local and genuine, from Mexico alone, were not looted, stolen or in any other way "brought" from other countries for display.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Buying tickets for Lucha Libre</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Buying tickets for Lucha Libre in Mexcio City can be tricky. If you turn up at the ticket booth on the night (as the guidebooks suggest) you'll find it difficult to avoid all the ticket touts who'll do all they can to prevent you purchasing a ticket from the ticket window (we tried several times, and failed), forcing you to pay over the odds to buy tickets from them instead.<br><br>You can avoid all this by getting your tickets in advance from Mixup, Ghandi or Liverpool stores. They charge a small booking fee (about M$12 a ticket), which is an awful lot less than you'll end up paying a tout at the venue.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Book your taxis through your hotel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Safer, as generally taxi drivers are a bit dodgy, and means that you aren't carrying cash around. They are also more likely to speak English and actually take you where you want to go.]]></description>
                
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                <title>El Pendulo, bookshop/cafe</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Very pleasant cafe, bookshop, and CD store in the heart of Condesa. I spotted Carlos Monsivais sipping coffee on a table opposite and felt very much the intellectual about town. Good selection of fiction, history, art books (in Spanish).]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hotel Monaco</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This hotel has a good restaurant and bar and is centrally located. The hotel is spotless and the service excellent. We used to stay at Hotel Catedral, but it was often booked up. This is a better alternative, same price, better deal and better situated.  <br><br>It is a couple of blocks from Parque Alameda, Bellas Artes, Paseo Reforma and all that area contains in Centro Historico. $40 to $60 for a suite! Recommended. Free internet.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Ministry of Public Education</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA["El Ministerio de Educacion Publica" houses an incredible collection of Diego Rivera murals.  <br><br>These are his early murals (the 20s) and are on three floors surrounding an open courtyard with jacaranda trees.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Puerta del Sol</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[On the main square in the beautiful district of Coyoacan. It's a tiny little place with very eccentric staff who shout at you quite a lot, but being shouted at is part and parcel of life in Mexico City. It was the only place I found that did draught beer after two years living there and they serve beer in pitchers. The upstairs balcony is particularly comfortable. Bar snacks are available.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Bazaar Sabado in San Angel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Besides providing a reason to go to the elegant cobblestoned San Angel neighborhood, the Saturday market in San Angel offers high quality handicrafts that make excellent gifts or souvenirs. If all that shopping makes you hungry, you can grab a bite to eat in the central courtyard or at one of the nearby restaurants.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Fonda de los Recuerdos</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This restaurant is near the Zona Rosa and has very good Mexican food, including traditional quesadillas with squash blossoms (delicious), and a wonderfully unique cocktail called a torito.  The torito with mamey (a tropical fruit) is unforgettable. Unless you have too many.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hotel Habita</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A very cool rooftop bar with open-air pool at this design hotel, great views of the city skyline. Good DJs (look out for resident DJ Sacha) and great drinks. They even project stylish films onto a neighbouring tower block. Go after dark, and enjoy.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Coyoacan</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Coyoacan is a lovely leafy suburb of Mexico City. The area inspired artist Frida Kahlo and you can visit her beautiful blue house here. It is famous for its markets, on a Saturday and Sunday, for its great second hand bookshops and also its ice-cream (you should try mil flores flavour - a thousand flowers). <br><br>A great place to escape the hectic city centre, it is easily reached on the metro or by bus.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Concern for safety</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Mexico City is a dangerous city.  Do not wear jewellery.  No gold earrings or gold chains.  Wear a black, plastic watch only.]]></description>
                
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                <title>La Casona</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[It's a small hotel in Condesa, near the park and museums. Very friendly and a good alternative to all the big hotels.]]></description>
                
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                <title>MAP</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A new museum organised by the local govt where artists can show their traditional work and also sell it. It just opened a couple of weeks ago.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The house of Leon Trotsky</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Trotsky as surely many people must still remember from their history books was one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution and was murdered by one of Stalin's agents in the house.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Estadio Azteca</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Forget the Nou Camp or even the Maracaná, the 114,000-capacity Aztec is perhaps the greatest football stadium in the world, and the only one to host two World Cup finals. The steep terracing ensures an intense atmosphere and good views from anywhere in the ground. Try to go when América, the city’s largest club, are playing.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Museo Frida Kahlo</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is the house in the southern part of Mexico City where Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived. The table is set in the kitchen, and you almost expect them to walk in at  any time.<br>Along the stairway, the wall is covered with  retablas, religious cards that they collected. Upstairs in her bedroom is the painting that Kahlo was working on when she died - a portrait of Stalin.<br> ]]></description>
                
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                <title>Casa de los Amigos</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A Quaker hostel just off Plaza de la Revolucion. Originally the home of muralist Jose Clemente Orozco, it was donated to the mission after his death. <br>Rooms are dormitory style although there are a couple of private double rooms with their own bathrooms. You can cook your own food in one of the two kitchens or have breakfast for 15 pesos. Lots of interesting people work at or stay at the hostel and it is a great place to base yourself while in Mex City. We stayed in one of the doubles for about £7 a night.]]></description>
                
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