{"id":629,"date":"2021-08-29T00:13:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T04:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2021-08-29T00:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-29T04:13:02","slug":"the-venice-of-mexico-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2021\/08\/29\/the-venice-of-mexico-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The Venice Of Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty sure I&#8217;ve seen this Venice\/canal reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/index.htm\">Xochimilco<\/a>, at least the part of Xochimilco that is a system of canals with whimsical boats where mariachis and food vendors float up to you to sell their services. It&#8217;s magical. There&#8217;s a nod to the pre-Spanish Conquest past in that it&#8217;s a taste of what the dry valley of Mexico City was once like before the lake bed was drained, but all told, it&#8217;s actually really fun and pleasant to be pushed around for an afternoon:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/08-23-21\/01008-23-21.jpg\" alt=\"Xochimilco, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 23, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/08-23-21\/01608-23-21.jpg\" alt=\"Xochimilco, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 23, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/08-23-21\/02108-23-21.jpg\" alt=\"Xochimilco, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 23, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/08-23-21\/02408-23-21.jpg\" alt=\"Mariachis, Xochimilco, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 23, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the beers are ENORMOUS (that&#8217;s a &#8220;michelada,&#8221; with tomato juice\/clamato juice and a spicy rim):<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/08-23-21\/04308-23-21.jpg\" alt=\"Michelada, Xochimilco, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 23, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/salondeexhibiciondelaxolotl\/index.htm\">We also stopped to see axolotls<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/08-23-21\/06808-23-21.jpg\" alt=\"Axolotl, Sal&oacute;n de Exhibici&oacute;n del Axolotl, Xochimilco, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 23, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p>. . . and visited the wonderful and frightening world of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/laisladelasmunecas\/index.htm\">La Isla de las Mu&ntilde;ecas<\/a>, which actually has a story behind it:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/08-23-21\/12008-23-21.jpg\" alt=\"La Isla de las Mu&ntilde;ecas, Xochimilco, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 23, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/outoftown\/mexico\/cdmx\/xochimilco\/xochimilco\/08-23-21\/09308-23-21.jpg\" alt=\"La Isla de las Mu&ntilde;ecas, Xochimilco, Mexico City\/Ciudad de M&eacute;xico, Mexico, August 23, 2021\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty sure I&#8217;ve seen this Venice\/canal reference to Xochimilco, at least the part of Xochimilco that is a system of canals with whimsical boats where mariachis and food vendors float up to you to sell their services. It&#8217;s magical. There&#8217;s a nod to the pre-Spanish Conquest past in that it&#8217;s a taste of what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-out_of_town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":630,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}