Mexico City airport immigration line. We had to go through this line to get our passport stamped and get a tourist visa. 
On the trip from the airport to the hotel, we immediately noticed the traffic! Lots of cars and buses, and intersections without stop signs or stoplights were the most interesting! People pulled out in front of people all the time, drove fast, and very close together. But I didn't see any accidents! 
Mexico City street scene (from the van)
An open-air chicken restaurant. Pick out the one you want! 
Old American cars were the taxis in Mexico. I saw old VW bugs everywhere in Mexico City. There were MANY taxis. 
A very typical Mexican store in downtown Mexico City. Several from my group stopped here to buy water. We take clean drinking water for granted in the US. We were told not to drink the tap water in Mexico other than to brush our teeth, so we had to buy water everywhere we went.We walked about two blocks from our hotel to the main square of Mexico City, called the "zocalo." Every Mexican town has a zocalo, but Mexico City's is one of the largest in the world, behind only China's Tiananmen Square and Moscow's.
Street vendors right outside the royal palace and directly across from the zocalo. 
A view of the Zocalo from our top-floor restaurant. The royal palace is in the background. Note the temporary building to the left that they are in the process of taking down. It held some sort of art exhibit for several months. I thought it was interesting that they built a wooden structure like this instead of just using tents. They were carefully putting the wood into storage containers to be used again next year. 
The Mexico city cathedral. 
Native Aztec dancers doing a traditional dance. Downtown Mexico City. 
A natural Aztec healer, using some sort of incense. 
We did see some evidence of US influence - a McDonald's in Mexico City. We also drove by a WalMart but it was small by our standards, not the huge store with huge parking lot like we have in the US. 
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