Mexico City, Morelia, Guadalajara Driving into Mexico City we had two maps, the small city center map in the Lonely Planet and a larger overview showing only the main highways. Mexico City is supposedly the second largest city in the world, behind Tokyo. I've heard numbers between 20 and 30 million. We drove for miles through the outskirts. Trying to follow the larger map of highways I became worried that we had missed our anticipated route into the center and rounded the city to the west. In fact after a long time of not knowing exactly where we were we finally found a street sign and were in fact on the correct street driving north towards the historic center. We didn't have the address of the hotel we had made arrangements with but thought we knew the block in which to find it from the Zocalo. When we went searching for...
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