Teotihucan is just over 50km away from Mexico City, though with the traffic jams everywhere I decided to go for an early exit to beat the crowds. So it was about 7am when I turned up at the bus station and hurried to find the ticket office, which may sound fairly straight forward but the station was a complete maze. I decided it would be easier to stop and ask someone where to go but the woman just offered me some tequila, which was extremely kind I guess but not exactly helpful. I asked another local who looked pretty respectable in my broken Sapnglish, but once again, he advised I should have some tequilaand pointed in some direction of what I guessed was the closest bar. It was only 10 minutes later when I happened upon the ticket office myself that I realizedthat not all Mexicans are boozehounds but taquilla - with an A - means ticket booth. So, although it wasnt the early start that i was planning at least I was on my way and avoided drinking at 7am.

Id read how big the pyramids here were and apparently the largest one is the 2nd largest surviving on the planet, so I was expecting it to be pretty big the first sighting still really blew the old socks off {and trust me, with only 4 pairs to my name thats not good news to anyone!} The trouble with something so big is that you keep thinking its really close and before you know it youve walked for about an hour without seeming to get any closer. And thats before I climbed the thing...shattered doesnt even begin to describle it! To really rub salt in the wound, as I struggled to catch a breath at the summit, a puddle of sweat around me, an old Mexican bloke, who must easily have been 60 came dancing up with a pair of jeans and carrying 3 boxes of statues and souviniers.

I spent about 5 hours at the museum, learning how the pyramids were built, <apparently they didnt use animals, metal tools or even the wheel> not because it was a great museum but because I was still recovering from all my walking. There was a lot more in the museum but the part about the construction was the only part that was next to the air-con so the only part I was interested in.

Apart from the pyramids theres not much else around Teotihucan so after a few more exhausting hours I headed to the hostel for a quiet night. I would have considered going out for a while but I was convinced If I went to a bar I would only end up finding the local ticket offices instead, so decided Id call it a night and head the next day down South to Oaxaca.