Day 18: Failure

On Sundays museums are free to enter here in Mexico. So me and my house mate decided to visit Castillo de Chapultepec. It's more like a palace than a castle (as the name suggests), but that's not that important. The palace (castle?) is on the Chapultepec hill in Chapultepec park in Mexico city. And the metro station is also called Chapultepec, so you shouldn't be lost if you decide to go there.

The park looked really nice at the first glance, but we were more interested in visiting the palace, so we went straight for it. And, of course, we only found THIS out when we went through the security (had to get rid of all our water) and climbed the hill. And THIS is that we have to pay for the entrance. That's because we don't have a Mexican ID. I mean, it's not expensive - just $5, but there was so many people that we decided that if we have to pay, we'd better come back the other Saturday, when it's for money (to all) and there's less people. So me and my house mate went happily downhill with an idea of seeing the park, which I just found out is the largest city park in Latin America.

Well, we were walking fr just a few minutes when the storm broke. So fr the next 40-ish minutes we were hiding from thunder and lightning under the roof of a walk-pass-well-timed-shelter. And after the storm everything was wet and it was still "raining" off the trees, so the best decision we had was to go home.

Anyway, we plan to come back there and I hope it's gonna work out much better.