| Xochimilco is a place south of central Mexico City that you can get a feel of the old times when the whole valley was a lake. There are men waiting with colorful boats to take you out in the canals where flowers, etc are still grown like the Aztecs did on pieces of reclaimed lake called chinampas. People mostly come to ride the boats on weekends. During the extremely slow mid-week period some offered to give just me a ride for as little as 150 pesos.
It takes about an hour and a half to get there on the metro switching for the train Ligero at the Tasquena station. It is somewhat disorienting at the train terminus on the south side of Xochimilco (a less attractive part of town), so you walk north past the market to the more tourist like areas in these photos. The sky is smog free despite the innumerable belching buses and traffic doing their best to polute. Prices and quality of the street food are very good here.
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