Day 5 - Chapultepec
Day 5 Stats
Eat
Breakfast: Cafe Japy and Pan Gabriel (for egg/dairy free pastries) - both were very good
Lunch: Zona de Comida Bosque de Chapultepec - basically an outdoor food court. The food was terrible. We should have gotten Dorilocos from a street vendor instead.
Dinner: we have a light dinner of tamales from Flor de Lis. They were inexpensive and delicious.
Ice Cream: Neveria Roxy - this place has been here since 1946 and I don't think it's changed much since then (a good thing).
D0
Chapultepec Castle ($4.50/person) Although the the murals were beautiful, it's a very long walk up the hill (and one of our traveling companions had a bad knee and crutches). We were hoping for a more relaxing day.
Chapultepec Park
National Museum of Anthropology ($4.50/person) The museum is huge. We just picked a few eras to visit and will have to come back on our next trip.
Getting Around
Uber to Chapultepec ($4), return to apartment ($10)
Walk: 15,590 steps/6.4 miles
Day 5 Itinerary - Chapultepec
Chapultepec Castle
It was a long walk uphill to the castle, which is more of an art museum than a historically furnished palace. All of the murals depicting colonial Mexican history are the highlight, but we could have skipped the castle for time and because the kids' least favorite thing to see is art museums.
Museo Nacional de Antropología
The museum is enormous and would probably be best experienced on multiple trips. It's clearly organized by civilization/era so it's very easy to choose what you'd like to see. We focus on early history, learn more about Teotihucan, Mexica and Tenochtitlan (current Mexico City), and Olmec (looking for the head that Mr Burns gave to Homer Simpson). I'm a little disappointed that real Olmec heads don't look like the cartoon.
Our Last Night
Dinner in La Condesa and ending our trip with ice cream.
