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                <title>Airport transfer: take a taxi</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Pre-paid taxi vouchers can be purchased from the booth located in the baggage reclaim department. Authorised cabs can be identified by their white-and-yellow colour scheme, and any other cars should not be considered. Outside of rush hour the metro is a cheap and relatively quick alternative, but reaching the city centre does involves a change of line and may not appeal to those with heavier luggage.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hotel Condesa DF</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The latest flashy hotel to open in Mexico City has received rave reviews for its design perfection, although the service is reputedly a little wanting. Double room: $165-395 plus 15% tax.]]></description>
                
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                <title>La Tecla</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This is my favourite place to take visitors for a taste of nouvelle Mexican cuisine. The dishes are sometimes rather odd, but usually interesting and fun.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Nowhere to hide</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Somewhere to escape the crowds? I'm not sure such a place exists in Mexico City.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Parque Mexico</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Filled with activities for younger children at the weekends from painting to renting tricycles, the Parque Mexico in La Condesa is also pleasant for adults and near lots of restaurants and cafes.  The duck pond is often rather smelly though.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Papalote Museum</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A pleasantly organized children’s museum in Chapultepec Park.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Nopales</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Cactus leaves prepared in many different ways, for example with tomatoes and onions in a salad or with cheese in a tortilla. Interesting, nice tasting and reputedly very good for you.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Mole poblano</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A thick dark sauce made with dried chiles, nuts, seeds, spices, chocolate and many other ingredients, usually served as a sauce for chicken or turkey.  I don’t particularly like it, but it should be tried.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Xochilmilco</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The Aztecs fed their great floating city from artificial islands built on the edge of the lake. The last vestiges of this system are at Xochimilco in the far south of the city. You can take boats called trajineras around the islands, either following a peaceful and green route or join the crowds and the cacophony up and down the main drag.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Bad tequila</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Never buy a brand of tequila that does not say “100% agave” on the label. These are only partially made from the blue agave plant, do not taste as nice and carry with them particularly vicious hangovers.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Teotihuacan</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[At its peak around AD300, more than 1,000 years before the Aztecs arrived in the vicinity, the city of Teotihuacan covered eight square miles and housed some 150,000 people. Three hundred years later the civilisation disappeared, although nobody really knows why. The highlight of the ruins are two great pyramids and an avenue lined with temples.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Torre Mayor</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The observatory at the top of Mexico City’s tallest building provides a sense of just how huge this city is, and on relatively smog-free days of just how beautiful the mountains that ring it are too.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Tiempo Libre</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Tiempo Libre magazine is available at all newspaper kiosks. <a target="_new" href="http://www.mexicocity.gob.mx.com/">www.mexicocity.gob.mx.com/</a> has some information in English about events in the capital.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hotel Maria Christina</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A favourite with NGO types, this pleasant hotel is good value and centrally located but in a bit of a boring part of town.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hotel Isabel</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Simple but clean rooms in a large old building in the heart of the historic centre which is an advantage although there is less to do here at night than in other parts of town.]]></description>
                
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                <title>La Hacienda de Los Morales</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A place to go for exquisite versions of traditional Mexican recipes in a lush renovated hacienda with golden chandeliers and flowery service.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Restaurant Bajio</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Simple, straightforward and very Mexican. A place for the classic dishes without pretentions and tacky decor. Approx 130 pesos per person with no alcohol.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Detective novels by Paco Ignacio Taibo II</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Novels about the Mexican capital are few and far between, but the introspective and cynical private eye in these books, Hector Belascoaran Shayne, wanders its streets with a certain charm.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Amores Perros</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The complexity of the plot in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s movie gives you a sense of just how multi-layered the city is.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Los Olvidados</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Luis Bunuel’s classic film about slum children is not as out of date as it should be and provides a beautiful antidote to the nostalgia many hold for those years.]]></description>
                
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