For my birthday, I decided to treat myself to a trip to Mexico. Flying into Mexico City, I spent a few days exploring the capital city as well as a small town about three hours outside of the city, called Puebla. It's home to one of the largest pyramids in the world and also for its 'mole', a delicious sauce made with chocolate, onion and other ingredients, which is smothered over a piece of chicken.
I then flew to Cancun for a week in my first all-inclusive resort (open bar 24/7!). I escaped for a few days to visit Isla Mujeres and Tulum. In Tulum, I explored the well-preserved ruins of an ancient Mayan port city.
After getting my fair share of sunburn (and eating/drinking way more than I should have), I returned to Mexico City for a few more days, where I explored Teotihuacán, one of the world's most impressive archeological sites - a pyramid city inhabited between 100 B.C. and 600 A.D. At its heyday, more than 150,000 people lived there, making it the largest metropolis in the world at that time.
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