Sunday was Christoph and Sabrina's last day in Mexico City. After breakfast, Alejandro and I took them to see some of the sights in the "Historic Center".
We went in the Metropolitan Cathedral, but unfortunately the most impressive of the church's altarpieces, the Altar of the Kings, was covered with scaffolding. As with many places in the city, it would appear that it too is being spruced up in anticipation of the crowds of tourists that will arrive for the World Cup this summer.
Next to the Cathedral is the archaeological site where the foundations of the main Aztec temple were uncovered. Christoph was keen to see that, so we wandered through the excavations and visited the adjoining museum that contains the thousands of artifacts discovered on the site.
That evening we invited them to a farewell dinner at Bellini, the revolving restaurant on the 45th floor of the World Trade Center. It is the largest revolving restaurant in the world, and in the course of 1 hour, 45 minutes, makes a complete revolution, offering a 360 degree view of the city.
We were joined by our friend Andrés who was visiting the city for the weekend. We arrived around 6 PM hoping to get a good view of the sunset. Unfortunately, the sky was overcast, and we only had a brief glimpse of the setting sun. However, we were able to see the vast city below us by day and by night.
Early the next morning, our visitors left on the next leg of their journey through Mexico, a bus ride to Oaxaca. It was a pleasure to host our Swiss guests and to show them some of the sights. In three days they only scratched the surface of what there is to see here. We hope that they enjoyed their stay as much as we enjoyed hosting them and that they will return in the future to see more of this great city.
Auf wiedersehen!
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