Plaza Garibaldi is where the mariachi music players gather day and night waiting for a gig somewhere in town. Typically tourists also gather here at all hours of the day, and the mariachis will play for little pay just so they can practice a little. The colorful costumes of the mariachi players are a visual attraction when the music isn't playing. Costumes of the few mariachi women muscians are also very nice.
It is a short walk here from the zocalo. For the first time you can walk to the Alameda and then up the east side of Lazaro-Cardenas until you hit the plaza. After a few visits you will find the distance is shorter if you walk the blocks diagonally from the zocalo area. Police presence in the centro historico is so heightened that I felt secure walking in the area.
On my first visit I forgot my camera and sure enough there were a host of Swedish tourists being serenaded and singing along especially to the last line of the old standard, 'Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay - Cielito Lindo'
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