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Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

AT#177 - Travel to Mexico City, Mexico

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2009

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Anna Laura about her home city of Mexico City. We will talk about food, museums, architecture and history. We will puzzle about why the tourists stay in the Zona Rosa and we will tell you where they should go including Coyacan and Xochimilco. We will climb the world's third largest pyramid and eat street food. Discover this huge, bustling, diverse city. 20 million Mexico's can't be wrong. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This episode of The Amateur Traveler is brought to you by Audible.

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Please visit audible Podcast.com forward slash traveler

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for your free audio book download.

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I got my bags packed on a roll.

0:16.0

I'm heading out there.

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And I'm ready to go.

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Looking real good.

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In my passport photo.

0:24.5

Amateur Traveler episode 177.

0:27.8

Today the amateur traveler goes to Mexico City,

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La Ci de de Mexico. We'll talk history, culture, and food, and will also mock my Spanish

0:37.0

today on the amateur traveler. should be heading home but maybe not today.

0:45.0

Welcome to the amateur traveler.

0:47.0

I'm your host Chris Christensen.

0:49.0

Before we get into today's interview, I do have two news stories for you. The first story was some good

0:55.6

news for the endangered northern right whale but bad news for the people in

1:01.4

Rockland, Maine who may have been looking forward to the tourist

1:04.5

business caused by cruise ships.

1:07.0

Royal Caribbean has cancelled that as a port of call because new regulations limit ships in the nearby area because of the right whale

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to no more than 10 knots or 11.5 miles per hour.

1:19.7

And that was just too slow for the cruise line.

1:22.8

And then in a very strange news story coming out of Dallas, Texas, a 26-year-old passenger was apparently

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