Day 2 at Mexico City: Garibaldi square

We had dinner at El Popular, located near the Zocalo , we would highly recommend this place for the yummy pastries they had. We got ourselves some fancy Mexican food. This restaurant was a very popular local hangout as well since there was a long wait to get in. An average meal for two costs about 150 pesos.

We went to Garibaldi Square after dinner. Its about 5 blocks from Bellas Artes what grabs your attention when you reach the place where the mariachis perform are their clothes! They dress immaculately ,each team has matching uniforms and some of them have designer pants and jackets with silver ornaments. The street leading to the square are lined with clubs and bars, appeared a little unsafe and rundown. Once you reach the square there are families enjoying the music,so we felt safe after that. The mariachis perform from 8pm till wee hours of the next day morning.We were approached by lots of them but we pretty much stuck to listening to the others singing. Guitars,drums,trumpets,bugle,violin,cello,harmonica were some of the instruments used by them. We were told all the songs were based on love and most of them hired a mariachi to woo their dates.we saw up to 10 groups as we were early and more were coming in.we saw many couples swing and dance to the songs.