Teotihucan Pyramids, Tlatelolco and Guadalupe's shine

We left the hostel at 9am and went 15mins down the road to Tlatelolco, which are some Aztec ruins which were torn down by the spanish catholics when they arrived in Mexico, the spanish built one of the biggest catholic churchs in Mexico with the remains of the aztec pyramids after they had destroyed them. It was very sad to see what had happened but very interesting listening to the history.

Then we made our way to Guadalupe's shine, it consists of a church thats sinking so is being heavily supported on the inside with scaffolding, a new modern church which must of contained a good couple of thousand people participating in a service when we went in to have a look. There is also a waterfall and mountain temple which we had a look at whilst sitting down at the bottom of the mountain - didn't really have enough time to get up and down before leaving.
I'm still not entirely sure who the Guadalupe virgin is yet, she could be a mexican virgin mary.

Then we stopped for a very nice mexican lunch of fried cactus, cheese and bean taco things with a spicy guacamole sauce, it was very nice, Alan ate 3 1/2 of them and I had 1 1/2. We also had complementary almond tequila, mescal {which is like the Jose stuff} and pulcaq {which was 2% and thick lime flavoured liquid, nice but couldn't drink alot of it}.
Then it was off to the pyramids.

The pyramids are like nothing I've seen before, totally different to the egyptian pyramids. We took lots of pictures and video footage which we are still trying to get on to the online photo album and blog. There are 2 pyramids, a large one for the sun and a 20metre smaller one for the moon, there are steps all the way to the top for you to climb.
Well, I climbed the Lunar {moon} pyramid, only to the first level, mind you and hanging on to the handrail for dear life all the way up as it was quiet step. I had a loss of confidence about 3/4 of the way up but looked up and saw I was nearly there so carried on. It only took a few mins but it was very high off the ground. Alan on the other hand sprinted up, stopped for quick drink and photo with me and then sprinted up to the top.
I came down on my bum through, shaking all the way and being coaxed by Alan because he told me they wouldn't organise the local helicopter to come and air lift off the pyramid.
I didn't venture up the larger pyramid, I left that to Alan and some of the other people on our tour. I watched from the bottom.

We have settled into hostel life now and made a few friends, some of whom we might see again in NZ. We have found if you take a pack of cards up to the bar, you attract brits. Right off for a shower and some food, Alan will post his comments later x