Day 2 at Mexico City- Teotihuacan

We headed to the Aztec ruins of Teotihuacan on day two. Its Mexico's biggest ancient city. We started at about 7.15 am and reached at 8.15 am , we started early to avoid the sun and the crowd. The sun shines with all its glory later during the day and tour buses start coming in after 11am. Its pretty chilly in the morning so do take a jacket with you. If there is one sight not to be missed in Mexico city, its Teotihuacan!!!! It’s just amazing with the Pyramid of the Sun and the Moon and the Avenue of the Dead.

Pyramid of the Sun: It’s the worlds third largest pyramid. It has about 3 Mn tonnes of stone and was built without the use of any metal tools or wheels.we started with climbing this, it isnt too easy with 250 steps ,but the view from top of the pyramid is so amazing; you get an overview of this huge ancient city!One can only marvel at the engineering behind it 2000 years ago.

Pyramid of the moon: We were allowed upto the first platform of this pyramid, you can have an awesome view of the avenue of the dead from here.The steps here are very steep and tougher to climb. This pyramid is smaller than the pyramid of the sun, but its built at a higher elevation, so both the pyramids are the same height!!! We happened to see some new age devotees out here with white clothes on, they believe the mystical energies still converge at this place!!

We walked through the avenue of the dead and went to the residence of the high priest, which had abstracts murals on the walls. Entry to the ruins cost 48 pesos each.

How to reach Teotihuacan from Mexico city:

• We took the metro to La Raza, which is just 2 stops away, then another metro to Autobuses Del Norte which is just one stop.-cost 2 pesos per person.


• As soon as you alight from the train you can see the bus station to Teotihuacan called the “Autobus del norte”. Its on the other side of the road, so you can use the underpass to reach the bus stop.





• Once in the bus stop walk towards your left to the end of the bus station, the counter is the last but one counter. Board a bus, which says “Los Piramides” specifically, there are also buses to the teotihuacan town which can slightly mislead you. The whole journey took us an hour to reach the pyramids. Cost – 31 pesos each one-way.



• On return, we took the exit near the pyramid of the moon and waved a bus going to Autobus del Norte and the metro for the rest of journey back.