Que Sera Sera: El Centro

Finally after almost 5 months, we visited El Centro, the historical part of DF and within it still stands beautiful architecture from its colonial days. Walking on cobbled streets, between old and new buildings, I couldn't help but feel like I was walking back in time, into colonial Mexico, named 'Nueva Espana' back then. We started our little centro immersion by going up the Torre de Latinoamerica. It was once the tallest building in Mexico. Up there, we got a bird's eye view of the city in all its chaos and glory. We could see as far as the smog allowed us and Sera had a fun trying to identify buildings and structures from a given map of the city in all 4 directions.

We visited the Nacional Museo de Artes, a little bit of art exposure for our girls who were only fascinated by one exhibit, a moving projection of birds flying. As you can imagine, they were trying to chase the birds much to the disapproval of the museum guardians. They settled down for a while when we entered an art room where they made crafts using glue and feathers.

We lunched at the famous Sanborn's restaurant. The restaurant is beautiful. The walls are high and painted with colourful images reminiscent of old Mexico. There is natural light coming through the roof that simply highlights every detail of the restaurant - the tiles on the floors, the intricate carvings of the stairs and even the toilets were not spared. However one very important detail was sadly overlooked - the food. Ha ha. All I can say is we didn't even dare stay for dessert.

El Centro is one place in DF we will return many times over. It's a place to walk, discover, people watch, to visit the many museums and get my fix on cheap bargains. More to come!

On the 37th floor of Torre de Latinoamerica. Girls were thrilled and didn't seemed to be scared of the height, especially Yassy who crawled all around the tower on that ledge!