Bosque de Chapiltepec and the metro

On the day of my departure I planned to visit the Bosque de Chapultepec, that is a big park (or forest as its name states) with two lakes, a little hill with a castle housing the Museo Nacional de Antropología. And cheeky squirrels.

Travelling on the metro in Mexico City is quite entertaining. There are some 'program' all the time.

Almost in each stop gets on somebody selling more or less useful things like: snacks, headsets, creams, led lamps, hair gums. Or selling music cd with a hangfal demonstrate them or begging with singing songs. I guess the later ones got money just to stop.

...But maybe after a week these events are rather annoying to entertaining.

Also a good feature that in the rush hours there are some carriage (and also a section on the peron) where only women and children are allowed to enter. Despite of if there was such a crowd at some morning that the metros was not able to take in all of the people for at least 15 minutes so at the end I chose to walk.

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Xochimilco and the canals

My last full day in Mexico.

Xochimilco had been a separate town that was swallowed by the capital but kept the both peaceful and vivid atmosphere.

It's main attractions are the channels where you can travel with cheerfully coloured boats (for a good price, of course) and can see the floating gardens.

It is also worth just stroll on the streets where you bump into little bridges crossing the branches of the canals time after time and you can observe birds hunting for fishes making vivid the shallow water.

Toward the center and around the market the streets are full of the vivid noises of everyday life, that was dominated by the cheerful ones of the children on them way to home.

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Basic English

I have learned a new word in English that seems to be one of the basic ones. As a proof here is the conversation between a Mexican guide and me at the entrance of the Placio Nacional:
Guide: Do you want to see the murals?
Aniko: Pardon?
Guide: Do you want to see the murals?
Aniko: What does 'murals' mean?
G: Do you speak English?
A: Yes, but I don't know this word.
G: Do you speak English and don't know what does 'mural' mean??? [With the intonation like: 'How on Earth could you state that you speak English if you do not know such a basic word like 'mural'???')