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Three Days Away: CDMX pt.4
Three days away

Three Days Away: CDMX pt.4

72 hours of eating and drinking around Ciudad de México — day three

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Jan 25, 2024
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Mexico City is one of the world’s greatest, a bustling metropolis packed with great places to eat and drink and with further temptations lining up on most street corners should you need a snack or twenty on your wanderings. From the literally breath-taking altitude to its colonial-era expansion using a network of causeways across a giant inland lake surrounded by a ring of volcanoes, Ciudad de México is a testament to the power of empire, and of both great wealth and greater exploitation. Part Spanish colonial, part Aztec, and one hundred per cent proudly itself, CDMX thrums with life at all hours of the day and night. Try and hit the streets before dawn at least once, and line up for a breakfast taco or sandwich at a stall run by the same abuela for decades, where you’ll share the queue with office workers in suits, construction workers in boots, and post-clubbing wrecks in need of sustenance for the journey to bed.

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