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Entry from: Mexico City, Mexico
Entry Title: Mexico 2 - Xochimilco & Anthropology Museum
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Francais 2eme jour sera la visite de Xochimilco au sud de la ville. C'est en fait un ancien village qui a etait englouti par Mexico et qui en est devenu un quartier. Ce village vit autour de canaux qui sont les restes d'un lac immense a la base qui a etait asseche pour batir Mexico.Mexico est donc dans le lit d'un ancien lac ce qui explique le fait que beaucoup de batiment sont penches.(on a la tour de Pise en Europe, ici c'est tout Mexico). Pour en revenir a Xochimilco, qui veut dire terre de fleur, nous avons mis environ 2 h en en metro et rer depuis le centre ville. Le probleme est que le train s'est arrete avant notre arret car la ligne n'existe plus, quelqu'un a piquer les rails et meme la gare. Bref une fois la bas on loue un genre de grande barque pour faire un tour dans les canaux et aprecier une promenade paisible sur l'eau. Ce qu'on ne savait pas c'est que c'est la destination preferee des familles mexicaines. On a donc fait des barques tamponnantes avec les autres touristes, les marchands, et les mariachis ambulants. c'etait pas tres calme mais tres rigolo. Prochaine visite, celle du musee national d'antropologie a Mexico: Enorme. Tres interessant sur les differentes ethnies et civilisations au mexique avec des reproduction de temples, tombes et autres sculptures majeures des periodes precolombiennes. A l'etage, des reproductions de la vie actuelle des ethnies avec leurs habitations, leur vetement, outils, tradition et fete... Le point faible est que quasiment tout n'est qu'en espagnol. Trop grand, on a fait en profondeur certaines expositions et en courant le reste. On a termine la journee par la visite du parc pres du musee et du zoo gratuit qui se trouve dans le parc. On y a vue plus de gens que d'animaux bien qu'on ai souvent du mal a les distinguer. En fait c'est facile, les gens sont ceux qui jetent de tout partout. English After meeting and exchanging stories with other travellers at Hostel Moneda, we decided to go to Xochimilco by the subway. There was a direct line from our hostel to Taxquena, where we changed for a train to Xochimilco. The metro is amazingly cheap. It only cost us 4 pesos to get to our destination. On the train, we met other french travellers who were heading the same way. We alighted a stop (Francisco Goitia) before Xochimilco as it was closed. Together, 5 of us shared a cab to Embarcadero Nativitas, which costs 15 pesos. Once arrived at the embarquement port, we were approached by many boatmen. Armed with a little leaflet that indicates the fixed prices for everything from boat rides to food and drinks, we were glad to find out that the boat ride costs 280 pesos per boat per hour and not per person.The five of us decided to take a 2-hour ride. Xochimilco is otherwise known as the Land of Flowers. Mexico city was once a lake dried out to form the city...and Xochimilco is the last lake left from it. The water from this lake is what nourishes the abundant botanical nurseries along the banks of the lake. Unlike the floating market in Thailand, here we have boats serving cooked food a la carte and Mariachis (musicians) singing and dancing to their music. Apart from its colourful outlook, the boat reminds me of punting. Although the lake was oversaturated with boats, we had fun bumping into other boats. We only regretted having put down our guard by not asking the price of the food beforehand. Instead of paying 60 pesos per person as indicated on the information leaflet, we paid 80 pesos per person. Luckily, it´s not a big loss if you convert it in Euros. Mexico boasts of one of the best Anthropology Musuem. Given its rich history, it´s no wonder. Not only does it have a massive collection, there were vivid life-like displays of the different Indian cultures. One can spend ...
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Photos from this trip:
1. The oldest post office in Mexico city
2. Xochimilco
3. Xochimilco 2
4. Bumper boats
5. Greg and me on boat ride
6. Mexican Punting
7. Preparing food
8. Greg
9. Our boatman
10. Greg punting
11. Claudia
12. Squirrel in park
13. Anthropology museum
14. See the resemblance?
15. In the garden of Anthropology Museum
16. Bison in Zoo
17. Yak
18. The Blue House
19. Frida and Diego´s garden
20. Claudia at Blue House
21. School in Coyaocan
22. Plaza Hidalgo in Coyaocan
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Aztec Dancers
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The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848. It followed in the wake of the 1845 American annexation of the independent Republic of Texas. The unstable Mexican caudillo leadership of President/General Antonio López de Santa Anna still considered Texas to be its northeastern province and never recognized the Republic of Texas, which had seceded a decade earlier. In 1845, newly elected U.S. President James K. Polk sent troops to the disputed area and a diplomatic mission to Mexico. After Mexican forces attacked American forces, Polk cited this in his request that Congress declare war.
U.S. forces quickly occupied the regional capital of Santa Fe de Nuevo México along the upper Rio Grande and the Pacific coast province of Alta California, and then moved south. Meanwhile, the Pacific Squadron of the U.S Navy blockaded the Pacific coast farther south in lower Baja California Territory. The U.S. Army under Major General Winfield Scott eventually captured Mexico City through stiff resistance, having marched west from the port of Veracruz on the Gulf Coast, where the Americans staged their first ever amphibious landing.
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, forced onto the remnant Mexican government, ended the war and enforced the Mexican Cession of the northern territories of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo México to the United States. The U.S. agreed to pay $15 million compensation for the physical damage of the war and assumed $3.25 million of debt already owed earlier by the Mexican government to U.S. citizens. Mexico acknowledged the loss of what became the State of Texas and accepted the Rio Grande as its northern border with the U.S.
The victory and territorial expansion Polk envisioned inspired great patriotism in the United States, but the war and treaty drew some criticism in the U.S. for their casualties, monetary cost, and heavy-handedness, particularly early on. The question of how to treat the new acquisitions also intensified the debate over slavery. Mexico's worsened domestic turmoil and losses of life, territory, and national prestige left it in what prominent Mexicans called a state of degradation and ruin.