Mexico City Trajineras

In the Xochimilco section of the city, trajineras, brightly painted gondolas, let passengers explore the canals of the region.

Trendy art deco zones with cafés & boutiques compete with leafy bohemian neighborhoods such as Frida Kahlo’s Coyoacán & Polanco, a diverse area of the city that is now the magnet for upscale shopping & dining.

Amid food stalls & street vendors vociferously hawking their articles for sale, the heart of the Great Tenochtitlan resonates still with the violent & magnificent history of the conquest of the Americas, with the exposed ruins of the Aztec Templo Mayor elbow to elbow with the great Metropolitan Cathedral, the first on the continent, sun bleached & tilted picturesquely by quakes.

The famed “many Mexicos” of this rich & diverse country are reflected in this teeming, chaotic, noisy, & colorful capital. The historic region, studded by lakes, is now a city of superlatives, rippling with plenty of millions of lights by night, peppered with neighborhoods steeped in tradition such as Xochimilco & gleaming financial districts like Santa Fe, as well as the inevitable shanty towns that fringe its ever-expanding outskirts.