Like all major cities and, to be honest, many parks, Mexico City also has a botanical garden. And that is in Chapultepec.
As I personally am not a huge flower person, I went there more out of a sense of duty, but got surprised.
As there are not only flowers in Mexico, but also cactuses, there is a huge section of cactuses here. Of course there are flowers and so on, but I was more surprised by the cactuses and therefore more taken by them. Especially because there are of course an incredible number of different types of cactuses in Mexico.
However, the thing that blew me away the most was the plastic garden, where the river, bridge, birds, flowers and everything on site is made of recycled plastic. Really everything. Really weird and totally cool at the same time. It doesn’t look like much from a distance, but when you walk through it, you realise how much detail has gone into it. In other words, how much thought has gone into this plastic garden and what a complete work of art it actually is.
Go or not? Yes, definitely indeed. Not because it’s the most beautiful or cool thing ever, but because I’ve honestly never been to a plastic garden before. And I got really impressed. The rest of the botanical garden in Chapultepec is of course also worth seeing. But I personally found the plastic garden by far the coolest 😀