Mexico: Alone with the Aztecs?

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British newspaper the Telegraph sent their writer Mark Hudson to visit Mexico. Although it’s unlikely that Hudson is one of the ‘first tourists to return’ to Mexico since the H1N1 flu outbreak, as the article claims, he does write about the advantage of visiting when tourism is not at its peak.

‘It’s just 38 days since my visit to Mexico City was cancelled, with the world staring into the abyss of a global pandemic and the expectation that no one would be visiting Mexico – without urgent cause – for a very long time. And now here I am powering into the heart of the world’s third-largest city as night falls, along a dead-straight and apparently endless boulevard, past a great jumble of baroque churches, futuristic tower blocks and battered, low-level ribbon development, with the statues of Aztec emperors and revolutionary heroes looming out of the darkness at every intersection.

‘While a brutal drug war rages in the north of the country and the economy is in a state of collapse, it occurs to me with increasing force over the time I spend here that this is far from being a bad time to visit Mexico City.’

Read more about Hudson’s visit here on the Telegraph website.

-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City