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the museum

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By far the best museum in the country when it comes to antiquities is the Museo Nacional de Antropologia in Mexico City. To do justice to the museum, you will need more than one day, which we didn’t, of course. There is a vast collection of artefacts of superior quality and aesthetics  – compared to [...]
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the murals

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Obviously, just the few pictures in the Mexico City (2) entry are not going to be enough to demonstrate the beauty of the work of Mexico’s muralists, the painters who are responsible for the many large frescoes in several public places. From the early 1920s onwards the big three, Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and [...]
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27 Mexico City (2) – the murals

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And then, suddenly, everything works. On our last day, we once again focussed on the murals, but this time in the museums. The most impressive collection is inside the Palacio de Bellas Artes, a building that in itself deserves a visit, because of its exquisite architecture as well as its Art Nouveau inside, an enormous [...]
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26. Mexico City

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It is not that we weren’t prepared. I had read extensively on where in Mexico City we could find the murals of Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros, and what needed to be done to visit them. Not all of them are in museums, some of the most famous ones are in the National Palace – where [...]
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25. a bit more Mexican history

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Time for an intermezzo. Hernan Cortes defeated the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in 1521, and was subsequently appointed governor on behalf of Spain, from then on the colonial power for the next three hundred years. Spanish success was relative: thousands of churches were constructed, hundreds of towns built. But at the beginning of the 19th century [...]
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24. arrival in Mexico City

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It took us some four hours to drive from Xalapa to Mexico City, on a comfortable toll way, called ‘cuota’ here. And the dreaded traffic, arriving into town, was in fact a piece of cake, on a Saturday around lunch time. We dropped the car, and teamed up with our friends again – the same [...]
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Museo de Antropología de Xalapa

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We had planned a stop-over in Xalapa, to admire more of the so-called Colossal Heads that define the Olmec civilization, the oldest in Mexico. The Olmecs flourished between 1200 – 400 BC in the present-day Mexican states Vera Cruz and Tabasco, and are thought to have laid the foundation for the later, more famous civilizations. [...]
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23. the way back to Mexico City

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After Edzna we were left with the long drive back to Mexico City, part of which we had already done on the way up, of course. We stopped in uneventful Ciudad del Carmen, on the Gulf Coast, and in charming Cosamaloapan, a small town in the middle of sugarcane country. Instead of taking the toll [...]
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22. the Tren Maya

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We cannot spend time in Yucatan in 2024, without commenting on the Tren Maya, the train that connects the various tourist sites in Yucatan along a more than 1500 km track through virgin jungle, over pristine cenotes and past priceless archaeological locations. For some the greatest engineering project in the world, for other a megalomaniac [...]
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21. Edzna

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Because we couldn’t find a decent breakfast, and because we spent far more time in the little Maya Museum at the Fuerte de San Miguel, we finally arrived at the Maya site Edzna at around 11.30 am. Right, the hottest part of the day, and it was already a hot day. But the spin-off is [...]
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