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Houston is the most populous city in Texas and the fourth-most populous city in the United States, located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of Mexico. With a census-estimated 2014 population of 2.239 million within an area of 667 square miles (1,730 km2). It also is the largest city in the Southern United States 2

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Hermann Park is one of Houston’s most-visited public parks. Situated between Fannin Street and Cambridge Street, it is within walking distance from the Texas Medical Center, Rice University, and the Museum District, and within a few miles of the Third Ward, the historic Astrodome and NRG Stadium (home stadium for the Houston Texans).

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Hermann Park was presented to the City of Houston by George Hermann in 1914, and is now Houston’s most historically significant public green space. Over the years, the Houston Zoo, Miller Outdoor Theatre, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and one of the first desegregated public golf courses in the United States all have added to the Park’s importance as a recreational destination.

By the late 1980s however, due to insufficient public resources and very high public attendance, the park became rundown and entered a state of disrepair. In response, a group of committed and visionary Houstonians formed the nonprofit organization known as the Friends of Hermann Park (FHP) to encourage the development of more attractive, usable green space in Hermann Park and to promote the restoration of the Park to its originally intended standards of beauty.

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HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a science museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.

The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science. Museum attendance totals over two million visitors each year. The museum complex consists of a central facility with four floors of natural science halls and exhibits, the Burke Baker Planetarium, the Cockrell Butterfly Center, and the Wortham Giant Screen Theatre (formerly known as the Wortham IMAX Theatre).

The museum is one of the most popular in the United States and ranks just below New York City’s American Museum of Natural History and Metropolitan Museum of Art and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco in most attendance amongst non-Smithsonian museums.[1] Much of the museum’s popularity is attributed to its large number of special or guest exhibits.

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Cockrell Butterfly Center, a butterfly zoo located in museum complex. Opening in 1994, the center is housed in a three-story glass building filled with tropical plants and butterflies. The center exhibits a large range of live butterflies, including the migratory monarchs and their tropical cousins. The Cockrell Butterfly Center was reopened in May 2007 after being overhauled to make the exhibit more interactive; there are now games for children and a live insect zoo in the Brown Hall of Entomology.

Wortham Giant Screen Theatre, a 394-seat theater presenting various educational films in 4K digital with advanced 3D technology on its 60x80 foot screen.

George Observatory, an astronomy observatory equipped with three domed telescopes, including a 36-inch (910 mm) Gueymard Research Telescope and a solar telescope. The facility is located south of Sugar Land, Texas at Brazos Bend State Park. The observatory also houses a portion of the Challenger Learning Center for Space Science Education.

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SAN ANTONIO San Antonio, Spanish for “Saint Anthony�, officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh-most populated city in the United States and the second-most populous city in the state of Texas, with a population of 1,409,019.It was the fastest growing of the top 10 largest cities in the United States from 2000 to 2010, and the second from 1990 to 2000.

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AT&T CENTER AND SAN ANTONIO SPURS The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA). They were NBA champions in 1999, 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2014.

The Spurs are one of four former American Basketball Association teams to remain intact in the NBA after the 1976 ABA–NBA merger and the only former ABA team to have won an NBA championship. The Spurs’ five NBA championships are the fourth most in history behind only the Boston Celtics (17), Los Angeles Lakers (16), and Chicago Bulls (6). The Spurs currently rank first among active franchises for the highest winning percentage in NBA history.

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The River Walk is a successful special-case pedestrian street, one level down from the automobile street. The River Walk winds and loops under bridges as two parallel sidewalks lined with restaurants and shops, connecting the major tourist draws from the Shops at Rivercenter, to the Arneson River Theatre, to Marriage Island, to La Villita, to HemisFair Park, to the Tower Life Building, to the San Antonio Museum of Art, to the Pearl and the city’s five Spanish colonial missions, which have just been named a World Heritage Site, including the Alamo. During the annual springtime Fiesta San Antonio, the River Parade features flowery floats that float down the river.

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NASA SPACE CENER, HOUSTON The Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (JSC) is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Manned Spacecraft Center, where human spaceflight training, research, and flight control are conducted. It was renamed in honor of the late U.S. president and Texas native, Lyndon B. Johnson, by an act of the United States Senate on February 19, 1973.

It consists of a complex of one hundred buildings constructed on 1,620 acres (660 hectares) in the Clear Lake Area of Houston which acquired the official nickname “Space City” in 1967. The center is home to NASA’s astronaut corps and is responsible for training astronauts from both the U.S. and its international partners. It has become popularly known for its flight control function, identified as “Mission Control” during the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo–Soyuz, and Space Shuttle program flights.

The Manned Spacecraft Center grew out of the Space Task Group (STG) headed by Robert Gilruth, formed soon after the creation of NASA to co-ordinate the US manned spaceflight program. The STG was based at the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, but reported organizationally to the Goddard Space Flight Center. To meet the growing needs of the US human spaceflight program, plans began in 1961 to expand its staff to its own organization, and move it to a new facility. This was constructed in 1962 and 1963 on land donated by the Humble Oil company through Rice University, and officially opened its doors in September, 1963. Today, JSC is one of ten major NASA field centers.

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Mexico City, is the capital and most populous city of Mexico.[12] As an “alpha” global city,[13] Mexico City is one of the most important financial centers in the Americas. It is located in the Valley of Mexico (Valle de México), a large valley in the high plateaus at the center of Mexico, at an altitude of 2,240 metres (7,350 ft). The city consists of sixteen municipalities.

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CENTRAL HISTORIC DISTRICT The historic center of Mexico City (Spanish: Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México), also known as the Centro or Centro Histórico, is the central neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, focused on Zócalo or main plaza and extending in all directions for a number of blocks, with its farthest extent being west to the Alameda Central.[1] The Zocalo is the largest plaza in Latin America. It can hold up to nearly 100,000 people.

This section of the capital has just over nine square km and occupies 668 blocks. It contains 9,000 buildings, 1,550 of which have been declared of historical importance. Most of these historic buildings were constructed between the 16th and 20th centuries. It is divided into two zones for preservation purposes. Zone A encompasses the pre-Hispanic city and its expansion from the Viceroy period until Independence. Zone B covers the areas all other constructions to the end of the 19th century that are considered indispensable to the preservation of the area’s architectural and cultural heritage.

This is where the Spaniards began to build what is now modern Mexico City in the 16th century on the ruins of the conquered Tenochtitlan, capital of the Aztec Empire.[2] As the center of the ancient Aztec Empire and the seat of power for the Spanish colony of New Spain, the Centro Historico contains most of the city’s historic sites from both eras as well as a large number of museums. This has made it a World Heritage Site.

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TEOTIHUACAN Teotihuacan (Spanish pronunciation: [teotiwa’kan], is an ancient Mesoamerican city located in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, located in the State of Mexico 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of modern-day Mexico City, known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids built in the pre-Columbian Americas.

At its zenith, perhaps in the first half of the 1st millennium AD, Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas, with a population estimated at 125,000 or more, making it at least the sixth largest city in the world during its epoch.

Apart from the pyramids, Teotihuacan is also anthropologically significant for its complex, multi-family residential compounds; the Avenue of the Dead; and the small portion of its vibrant murals that have been exceptionally well-preserved. Additionally, Teotihuacan exported fine obsidian tools that garnered high prestige and widespread usage throughout Mesoamerica.

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The city is thought to have been established around 100 BC, with major monuments continuously under construction until about 250 AD.The city may have lasted until sometime between the 7th and 8th centuries AD, but its major monuments were sacked and systematically burned around 550 AD. Teotihuacan began as a new religious center in the Mexican Highlands around the first century AD. This city came to be the largest and most populated center in the pre-Columbian Americas. Teotihuacan was even home to multi-floor apartment compounds built to accommodate this large population. The term Teotihuacan (or Teotihuacano) is also used for the whole civilization and cultural complex associated with the site.

Although it is a subject of debate whether Teotihuacan was the center of a state empire, its influence throughout Mesoamerica is well documented; evidence of Teotihuacano presence can be seen at numerous sites in Veracruz and the Maya region. The later Aztecs saw these magnificent ruins and claimed a common ancestry with the Teotihuacanos, modifying and adopting aspects of their culture. The ethnicity of the inhabitants of Teotihuacan is also a subject of debate. Possible candidates are the Nahua, Otomi, or Totonac ethnic groups. Scholars have also suggested that Teotihuacan was a multi-ethnic state.

The city and the archaeological site are located in what is now the San Juan TeotihuacĂĄn municipality in the State of MĂŠxico, approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) northeast of Mexico City. The site covers a total surface area of 83 square kilometres (32 sq mi) and was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.

It is the most visited archaeological site in Mexico.

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MUSEUM OF ANTROPOLOGY The National Museum of Anthropology (Spanish: Museo Nacional de Antropología, MNA) is a national museum of Mexico. It is the largest and most visited museum in Mexico. Located in the area between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street within Chapultepec Park in Mexico City, the museum contains significant archaeological and anthropological artifacts from Mexico’s pre-Columbian heritage, such as the Stone of the Sun (or the Aztec calendar stone) and the Aztec Xochipilli statue.

The museum (along with many other Mexican national and regional museums) is managed by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (National Institute of Anthropology and History), or INAH. Assessments of the museum vary, with one considering it “a national treasure and a symbol of identity. The museum is the synthesis of an ideological, scientific, and political feat.”Octavio Paz criticized the museum’s making the Mexica (Aztec) hall central, saying the“exaltation and glorification of Mexico-Tenochtitlan transforms the Museum of Anthropology into a temple.”

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ARCHITECTURE Designed in 1964 by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Jorge Campuzano, and Rafael Mijares Alcérreca, the monumental building contains exhibition halls surrounding a courtyard with a huge pond and a vast square concrete umbrella supported by a single slender pillar (known as “el paraguas”, Spanish for “the umbrella”). The halls are ringed by gardens, many of which contain outdoor exhibits. The museum has 23 rooms for exhibits and covers an area of 79,700 square meters (almost 8 hectares) or 857,890 square feet (almost 20 acres).

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UNAM&XOCHIMILCO The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the largest university in Latin America. As a public research university in Mexico City, the UNAM is widely regarded by many university world rankings as the leading university of the Spanish-speaking world. UNAM was founded, in its modern form, on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to its preceding institution the Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico. To this date, the National Autonomous University of Mexico owns and uses for academic activities the old buildings located in downtown Mexico City that once belonged to the old Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico. UNAM’s autonomy, granted in 1929, has given it the freedom to define its own curriculum and manage its own budget without interference from the government. This has had a profound effect on academic life at the university, which some claim boosts academic freedom and independence.

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Xochimilco Ecological Park and Plant Market is a natural reserve or park, with a thirteen hectare plant market, the largest in Latin America. The park and market are located in the southern Mexico City borough of Xochimilco, about 23 km south of the historic center of the city. The park was inaugurated in 1993, on chinampas (artificial lake islands) which had been previously declared as part of a World Heritage site.

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TAXCO Taxco de Alarcón (usually referred to as simply Taxco) is a small city and administrative center of a Taxco de Alarcón Municipality located in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Taxco is located in the north-central part of the state, 36 kilometres (22 miles) from the city of Iguala, 135 kilometres (84 miles) from the state capital of Chilpancingo and 170 kilometres (106 miles) southwest of Mexico City.

The city is heavily associated with silver, both with the mining of it and other metals and for the crafting of it into jewelry, silverware and other items. Today, mining is no longer a mainstay of the city’s economy. The city’s reputation for silverwork, along with its picturesque homes and surrounding landscapes, have made tourism the main economic activity.

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The city of Taxco lies on very rugged terrain and has steep, irregular streets. The streets are also narrow and generally lack sidewalks, making them picturesque but dangerous. Adding to the charm is that most streets are paved with dark stones, adorned with lines, pictures and even murals of white stone. Some of the pictures in the street are from the Zodiac and meant to indicate certain commercial activities in times past. One example of this is the sign of Taurus near the Church of Santa Prisca, which used to indicate the area of butcher shops. Buildings in the city typically have Spanish-style, red-tile roofs.

The town’s main plaza, officially called Plaza Borda after José de la Borda, is commonly referred to as the Zócalo. On the north side of this plaza is the Casa Borda (Borda House), the most important non-religious construction in the city. The front facing the Zócalo has two stories, but the back, facing the Plaza de Bernal, has five. This is due to the uneven ground on which the house was built. Much of the house is now dedicated to the Casa de Cultura (Cultural Center) where classes in languages, fine arts and sports such as judo are taught. The rest of the main plaza is surrounded by silver shops, restaurants and bars.

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BASILICA DE GUADALUPE The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Basílica de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe) is a Roman Catholic church, basilica and National shrine of Mexico in the north of Mexico City. The shrine was built near the hill of Tepeyac where Our Lady of Guadalupe is believed to have appeared to Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. This site is also known as La Villa de Guadalupe or, in a more popular sense, simply La Villa, as it has several churches and related buildings.

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The new Basilica houses the original tilma (or cloak) of Juan Diego, which holds the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. One of the most important pilgrimage sites of Catholicism, the basilica is visited by several million people every year, especially around 12 December, Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Feast day.

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TRAVEL ITINERARY

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAY 1: 12.24. HOU-MEX 9:00 gathering, 去baton rouge机场租车 10:00 depart from Baton Rouge 12:00 lunch 或者到了Houston再吃也可以。一个小时的lunch time 16:00p 到机场 还车Check in 什么的

- 加上午饭时间从10：00到16：00一共有6个小时 怎么都到了吧 17:43p-20:05p 2h22m IAH-MEX

- 机场去酒店可以打的。大约180比索算是坑的

- 如果坐地铁的话，terminal 1从Gate 1出来，沿着地铁Metro标志走到地铁line 5, terminal area到line 1 insurgentes站。 留意一下单程时间 可以计划返程的时间~

- Hotel: Sheraton Mexico City Maria Isabel Hotel: Paseo de la Reforma 325 Col. Cuauhtemoc, Mexico City, DF. 1-800-318-4917

- 去到酒店问前台有没有去日月金字塔跟Taxco的团，可以先报了根据这个时间调整后面的行程 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAY 2: 12.25. CHRISTMAS – 宪法广场中心步行区 Zocalo 宪法广场 National Palace 国家宫殿 Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral 首都大教堂 Templo mayor Museum大神庙考古区

- 基本上最著名的景点都在这个附近。从酒店过去可以考虑坐地铁或者打的。地铁的话到Zocalo站（2号线）

- 宪法广场西边附近就是Centro步行街区。

- 再往西就是Bellas Arts广场，附近有很多博物馆。拉丁塔上可以俯瞰墨西哥城，登顶价格是60peso, 跟其他高楼比还是便宜的。附近有Palacio de Bellas Artes美术馆，市中心邮政局，墨西哥国家艺术博物馆。

- 再往西就是Paseo de la Reforma改革步行街（就是我们酒店所在的那条街）， 会经过独立天使，Paseo de la Reforma。（这个块的景点完 全可以放到另外一天的行程里面，根据情况而定） -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAY 3: 12.26. MON. MUSEUM CLOSED. – 日月金字塔 日月金字塔 Pirámide del Sol 太阳金字塔, Pyramid of the Moon 月亮金字塔

- 地铁line 5 Autobuses del Norte到长途车北站，往gate 8走就看见Teotihuacan的logo,一个人38peso, 40多分钟到日月金字塔所在地。需要 走一段死亡达到才能到达日月金字塔。 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAY 4: 12.27. 国立人类学博物馆 Meseo Nacional de Antropologia国立人类学博物馆

- 地铁从line 1 insurgentes 到 Chapultepec站，绕过Chapultepec公园，follow指示牌就可以到达。国立人类学博物馆是Mexico city最著名 的博物馆，票价57peso。大约2-3小时。也可以看看博物馆旁边的公园 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAY 5: 12.28. 索奇米尔科生态公园 Guanajuato瓜纳华托

- 选择去瓜纳华托的话会比较累，是个在mexico city西北面的色彩小城，要一大早就出发。先坐地铁line 5 Autobuses del Norte到长途车北 站，坐primera plus，票价550peso, 200人民币的样子, 单程时间不同人反应从4.5个小时到6个小时不等。所以如果要去就是一大早去，中午到下午玩一 下，傍晚回来深夜到城里的节奏。（个人觉得瓜纳华托可能还是玩两天比较适合）

- 里面的景点有Monumento al Pipila皮毕拉纪念碑，瓜纳华托大学，The Mummy Museum木乃伊博物馆，Jardin de la Union联合花园 Parque Ecológico de Xochimilco索奇米尔科生态公园 - 生态公园在墨西哥城东南边，评价较少，说是一个世界文化遗产的水乡。河上有很多色彩鲜艳的船。一到公园可以先上瞭望台俯瞰整个公园的全貌。进 到里面大概是坐船赏景类的。 - 生态公园里有一个娃娃岛，娃娃岛在码头那里，乘船会经过。你可以和当地人一起拼船，一般一个船十几个人，当地年轻人周末都会包一条船，在船上 开Party，很欢快。经过娃娃岛，就会看到很多洋娃娃（各种）被吊在树上，如果天稍晚一点看起来会很阴森。。。恐怖。 - 可以坐地铁line 2，到达Tasquena车站（南站），然后跟着标志转乘tren ligero轻轨，终点站就是索奇米科尔。车站出来，向北走，沿着Avenida Mo relos大道就可以到达那里的市场。还可以乘出租车到船码头，一般几十比索。 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAY 6: 12.29. TAXCO银城 Taxco 银城 - 银城Taxco在Mexico City南面，坐line 2到Tasquena, 在南站坐车去taxco, 票价173peso, 大约2个半小时的车程，一下车就可以买回程的车票。依山而 建，山顶有耶稣像，保佑整座城的子民。 - 来回车程需要6个小时还有地铁时间，所以一大早就要从出发了，可能8、9点出发傍晚5、6点回到mexico city。 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAY 7: 12.30. 博物馆吃吃逛逛的一天 Basílica de Guadalupe 瓜达露佩圣母院 - 地铁Line 6, La Villa Basilica, 很多教堂建在一座山上（是JOHN朋友强烈推荐要去的地方）。出了地铁跟着人流走即可。 - 附近还有很多教堂跟博物馆，Museo de la Basilica, Tepeyac Cemetery, Carillon, Templo del pocito等，有空可以都顺便看看 - 因为两个地方离得比较远而且本身景点比较靠近，回来的路上如果还有时间，可以考虑 Museo Soumaya索玛雅博物馆，蛮现代的感觉挺有趣的。 - 没去到的地方都可以在这一天去啊 - 在东边的，比如Bellas Arts广场跟附近的博物馆。Palacio de Bellas Artes美术馆，市中心邮政局，墨西哥国家艺术博物馆。Paseo de la Reforma改革 步行街，Paseo de la Reforma.

- 西边的Museo Soumaya索玛雅博物馆 - 南边的Museo Frida Kahlo弗里达卡洛博物馆（蓝房子）。 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------DAY 8: 12.31. MEX-HOU-BTR 12:00p 出发去机场，吃饭就随便解决啦 13:00p到机场还车check in等 14:50p-17:30p 2h13m MEX-IAH 18:00p 还完车吃饭买东西，然后开回baton rouge.

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Edited by: Wanlu Ye HOUSTON : Photo by: Xiaojun Huang MEXICO CITY: Photo by: Wanlu Ye, Meng Meng @2016-2017.

THANKS FOR ALL THE HELP AND PEOPLE WHO CAME WITH ME.

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