Thursday, July 31, 2025

Discoveries on Mexican streets

When we drove out of the city to Teotihuacan, we saw cable cars!

The Mexican colleague told us that they were simply a form of public transportation, because the valley was rather dangerous. By taking the cable cars, bandits couldn’t stop your car on the highway and rob you. :P 

There were also some buildings on a hillside, that reminded me of Gamcheon Culture Village.

There are plenty of squirrels on the streets of Mexico. One day I managed to snap a few (blurry) photos.

Try to spot the squirrel in this first photo.

You can just make out its head beside the tree!

Can't spot it? Well, after that it turned around, and we can see its tail where its head was earlier.

this one should be noticeable enough :P (now go back and find the head in the previous photo!)

then it ran up a small branch...

and goes further...

And that's all I managed to get. :P 

While on the road, I saw two services being offered that are not available in Malaysia. One is a shoe-shining service.

Another was a windshield-cleaning service.

The first time I saw someone running up to a car holding a bottle of white liquid, I thought some sort of vandalism was going to happen! And then suddenly they started washing. It was cars stopped at a traffic jam; seems like they have a lot of faith in their traffic jams, and that they would be able to finish cleaning before traffic started moving again.

Another time we saw someone doing a performance (juggling some batons, I think) in front of the cars at a traffic light. After that, they went to cars getting donations/tips. It seems that people will actually roll down their window offering tips! The Israeli colleague wanted to give a tip, but he was a little slow and the traffic started to move, so it was too late. 

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