Mexico City, Teotihuacan and the Avenida de Muerte, Avenue of Death and La Grupa....underground restaurant..!!!!

About 30 miles NE of Mexico City are the ruins of the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas. At its pinnacle there were 125,000 people living here making it the 6th largest city in the world at that time! This is the most visited archaeological site in Mexico. Here you will be able see, touch, climb, examine, feel, and experience the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon and of course stroll down the Avenue of Death where untold numbers of people were marched up the pyramids and sacrificed.  Anthropologists are uncertain of the ethnicity of the inhabitants of the city....no really knows who built it although the Aztecs claimed it somewhere along the line. Its a remarkable place that oozes ancient mystic spiritualism.

Pyramid of the Sun...

The infamous Avenida de Muerte.....individuals were marched down this avenue to the pyramids and sacrificed....thousands of them! the buildings along the sides are residential and commercial structures and government offices.

Shot of the big Pyramid from a residential subdivision....this city had multi-floor apartment compounds to house its population...now we are talking about 100 BC to about 250 AD here....visionaries wouldn't you say??

Hanging out in a pre-Colombian meso-American neighborhood in Mexico....cooool!

With Tana here is Alex our guide when we were in Mexico city. He took us all over the city and really showed us the sights.... 

Adios Teotihuacan......

It was early afternoon when we headed back to Mexico city and we were all hungry...!! A few years ago when I was here, I discovered a totally underground restaurant....built in a cave underground and asked Alex if he knew where it was....he thought he did and off we went into the hills.... after driving around for a while.....Wahallla!!!!!

This sign is all you see when you finally find the place...

Into the Abyss......

When I mentioned an underground restaurant in a cave in the hither lands of central Mexico did you think that we'd be sitting around a campfire in the dirt??  Upscale BABY!!

We enjoyed hot fresh Mexican grasshoppers on steaming hot blue corn tortillas, a wonderful nopal cactus and pumpkin soup and the Mayan favorite...Puerco Pibil, a spicy pork dish with a mole sauce...oh yes cervazas frio..... Yummy!

Until next time....la paz!