Friday 8 May 2015

Parque Francisco Villa

The next park was a little under an hour away.

Parque Francisco Villa is named after Pancho Villa who like Miguel Hidalgo was another Mexican revolutionary and is probably the source of many a Mexican stereotype.

Sombrero hat, big moustache and bandolier.


The park is a small city park with a tightly packed selection of rides.


I'm sure Pixar have approved this :)


In one back corner of the park is Wacky Worm #8 which the ride operator was really happy for us to ride.

"Now get off my ride". 

Directly opposite the coaster I spotted this ride which on first sight could be seen as just a train but it had a lift hill and a gravity powered drop. It's a very borderline case and open to debate but we thought we'd ride it just in case. Thomas did an excellent job negotiating the "ok" from the ride operators.


That's the lift hill and the train did have a wheel assembling that gripped the track (more evidence its a coaster as a train that runs horizontal wouldn't need it)


Thomas managed to fit in the ride but the cars were too small for me and Tal.

So we made do with sitting in the boot of the truck car. Completely ridiculous but if the ride counts then it was all worth it, especially as lots of people have been here for the wacky worm and missed this.








Elsewhere in the park I found some nice graffiti than I ran over to photograph whilst the others made their way back to the car.

On the way to our next location we found an abandoned toilet in the road. I wonder if it had been replaced with a younger sexier model?

So that was day 5. One UNESCO site and 3 parks. Quite an easy day compared to those that had preceded it. In Mexico City we stayed in the centre of the Zona Rosa district which is a nice social area where you can safely walk out late at night. We found a Mexican restaurant where we pigged out on Nachos and Tacos for dinner. 

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