Hotel Busue
After coming back from Pakistan, I was experiencing serious post-travel blues. Getting to explore a culture and way of life different from my day to day life was incredibly refreshing, even if it was my own culture, just in a different country. With a long holiday coming up and a bit of searching on the internet, I was able to find a good deal on flights to Mexico City and immediately sprung for it. Our plan wasn't too hashed out other than the following: spending time exploring the museums, neighborhoods, and food at our own pace. I'd drawn up a list of things I was interested in seeing/doing, but with no particular pressure that we had to complete everything on the list since we already knew we'd plan to come back to CDMX in the future.
Day 1 was Saturday. Our flight got in in the late morning, and by the time we'd made it to our hotel, it was about 12:30 pm. We stayed at Hotel Busue in Polanco- a splurge and certainly pricier than other available places to stay, but I felt a little less guilty about it because we'd found a great deal. We'd gotten to the hotel before our room was available, so we dropped off our luggage and went out to explore the surrounding area. First stop was brunch, and we just went for whatever was available (having eaten about 7 hours prior and running on 4 hours of sleep). We ate at Maison Belen, a little cafe close to the hotel. We spent time afterwards walking around the Saturday market in Lincoln Park (and immediately regretted not seeing the market first and eating the numerous fresh street tacos available).
Lincoln Park's Saturday Market
A candy stall (that gave us free candy!) at the Saturday market
We continued to kill time waiting for our room to be ready and walked around the park as well as some of the streets in Polanco. By now, the weather had warmed up considerably (70's), and we were ready for a nap.
A home in Polanco
A restaurant in Polanco
After our room became available, we ducked in and caught up on sleep for a bit. We then headed over to the incredible Museo Nacional de Antropologia, which was just a 30 minute walk from the hotel. We spent the rest of the afternoon there until the museum closed, which was easy to do since the museum was huge. We ended up racing through a lot of it in the last hour before it closed, so I would definitely recommend having atleast 3-4 hours if you would like to really get to see the museum.
The courtyard of the museum
The museum at sunset
Following the museum, we headed back towards the hotel. Because of the long and exhausting day, we didn't try to go too much out of our way for dinner and basically found whatever was near and sounded good. We went for Greek food at Estiatorio Mythos in Polanco, and quickly called it a day after dinner.
