| For my week in Mexico City, I stayed at the beautiful Camino Real. I thought it was designed by Luis Barragan, but it was actually designed by Ricardo Legorreta (Legorreta did work for Barragan early in his career). Staying at the Camino Real was the same cost as other hotels, but it is a marvel of modern architecture. | |
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| When we had a morning off, we visited the Museo de Anthropologia, one of the gems of Mexico City (and for which I can't seem to find a decent page to link to... strange). Amusingly enough, Geraldine and Henrick were vacationing in Mexico City at the same time. The Olmec Head thought this was all quite fascinating. |
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Probably the most, umm, interesting school we visited was UNAM. It's interesting because some undergrads have been
on strike and had managed to completely shut down the university,
locking out over 250,000 students (it's a big school).
I won't attempt to explain the striker's propaganda. I will say
the campus was blocked off so we had to go in on foot. The
research institutes were still open, except they were trying
to, umm, liberate the place we visited while we were there.
We ended up giving our talk on the lawn outside.
UNAM has some beautiful murals from Siqueiros, Rivera, and more. This one commemorates various revolutions in Mexican history, with a somewhat recent, umm, addendum. | |
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| For our last day in Mexico, we made a side trip to Teotihuacan, whose people built some amazing pyramids between about 150AD and 700AD. Probably the coolest of the three pyramids is the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl (the feathered serpent). | |
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| Here are the gratuitous touristy pictures. I'm shooting down at Eyal on the stairs of the Moon Pyramid. He's shooting me at the Sun Pyramid and with my buddy Tlaloc, the rain god. | |
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