Teotihuacan and Luche Libre (pyramids and wrestling)

More culture kids!!! We have been in Mexico City for over a week (partly due to STA travel and Qantas - massive gimps both of them!!!) and been flat out every day, there is sooooo much stuff to see here.

The pyramids are called Teotihuacan, and comprise of three big structures. These include the temple of the feathered serpants (see the pictures of the skeletons in the blog below to see the sacrifices found there), the Sun Temple and the Moon Temple. The Sun temple is the third largest pyramid in the world, and not to try and take away the magic from it, but it was reconstructed in 1910 (we think) and whats worse is they stuffed up and reconstructed it incorrectly. Instead of having the original 4 layers, the Mexican Govt got there numbers wrong and banged on extra one. Still the entire is very impressive, and the additional painting outside (the red one) are original two thousand year old painting of water gods (agian we think - having no guide makes us use our imagination occasionally).

Now for the fun stuff, wrestling, which over here is called free fighting or luche libre. It is pretty much like the American WWF, except every is dressed in Gimp masks and midget bashing is acceptable (our little fella got repeatedly body slammed, chair bashed, rolled off the stage and carried away by a man in a white coat... obviously a doctor... but for some reason failed to take the proper precautions for a suspected spinal injury??).

The activity is advertised as "this is not a sport, this is not a show, this IS pure Mexican passion", and by looking into the crowd the passion part definitely wrang true. As with every sporting related activity the kids love to dress up as their heroes, it was not unusual to expect the same phenomenon to happen over here. What was a little disconcerting was the fact that the parents didn´t seem to have a problem with their children walking around in these masks imitating one of the characters out of Pulp Fiction.

Our wrestling companions were Sharon (an Irish Chick) and Yair (an Israeli bloke) who were staying in the hostel with us. Both cool kids and Yair walked the Camino de Santiago two years ago and gave us some much needed advice on what to bring. We then met up with a Mexican girl who took us under her wing on on a night out in the city of Mexico. Good times....