Finally today we made it to the historic Chapultepec Hill. A high point that's located within a lovely city based park which really is as nice as the name sounds. It's one of the worlds biggest city parks spanning a whopping 543 acres. Sat proudly at the very top of the hill Castillo de Chapultepec.(Chapultepec Castle). Now the National Museum of History. The castle that has the finest tiled balcony that we've ever been privileged to stand on. Which gave views across Mexico city and beyond.
Today the skies were pretty clear for DF, so to the Torre Latinoamericana tower for us to take in one final scoop of this great city. As most chilangos say if its every clear its really worth a look. Taking 8 years to build the Latin American Tower, with its 44 floors, was for many years the highest building of the city. While it was being built, many people felt that a tower of that height would not be able to withstand Mexico City's frequent earthquakes, however this was put to the test in 1957 and again in 1985, and the building suffered no damage in either major quake.
Stood out on the observation deck it wouldn't be a place we'd be happy standing in a earthquake situation! We head for coffee at reduced altitudes. All this prior to our longest and biggest flight yet, in so many ways, the flight back to London Heathrow. A journey that made us as nervous as a badger on a ring road. Its crazy to think we had more nerves returning to a place we know well than heading out into the unknown world with nothing more than just a backpack.
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