Teotihuacán - The Pyramids

Any visit to Mexico City is not complete without a visit to Teotihuacán, the big pyramids just a bit to the north of CXMX.  Nancy hadn't been there so I did my tour guide duty and took her there one day.  This site is one of the most remarkable in the Western hemisphere for it's size and detail and for the culture that developed there.  For details:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teotihuacan 

Avenue of the Dead

Pyramid of the Sun, 

no mean feat to climb in the hot mid-day sun but the views are great.

Pyramid of the Moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TJ-wal2SHc

 After about three hours we'd had our fill.  You can see, it's a very exposed site, the sun is intense there and, given it's size, it requires a lot of walking.  The numbers and aggressiveness of the vendors gets tiresome as well so we decided we'd had enough and made the long walk back to where we could get a cab.  

When we were planning this trip and talking to Alfonso about it, he strongly suggested that we go into in San Juan Teotihuacan de Arista, the town adjacent to the ruins for lunch at La Gruta, a legendary restaurant in a cave.  It goes back a long ways and was frequented by artists like Diego and Frida and Hollywood actors and dignitaries, even Queen Elizabeth II.  http://www.lagruta.mx/#gruta  So we got a taxi to the restaurant and it didn't disappoint.  A most unusual place.