🇳🇱 Amsterdam → 🇲🇽 Mexico City · 1 week

Arrive at Teotihuacán before 8 am on a weekday — you'll summit the Pyramid of the Sun before tour groups arrive, with the whole Avenue of the Dead almost to yourself. Take the first bus from Terminal Norte (1.5 hrs, ~MXN 80).

Eat at Mercado de Medellín in Colonia Roma on a Saturday morning: grab a tlayuda from the Oaxacan stalls, then a fresh-pressed juice — locals shop here, tourists almost never find it.

The Museo Anahuacalli (Diego Rivera's obsidian pyramid) is perpetually overlooked in favour of the Frida Kahlo house. Go late afternoon when the light streams through the volcanic-stone windows — it's architecturally stunning and usually quiet.

Buy a Metro card (MXN 7 per ride) and ride Line 2 end-to-end on a Sunday: the system is vast, safe in daylight, and an unfiltered window into city life — plus it passes directly under the Zócalo.