Markets or stalls and Mexico are… I honestly don’t think they can exist without each other. In Mexico, there’s always something being sold on every corner – even if it’s just tamales from cute old grannies who wants to earn a little (extra) money.
Of course, it’s no different in Mexico City. And so you are constantly walking into or past a market somewhere. For my part, for example, apart from maybe two or three markets – because they were known for something specific – I didn’t visit a single one on purpose, but simply ran into them unexpectedly and thought it was so cool that I either took photos straight away or came back later.

This particular market, which is actually more or less connected and certainly doesn’t have its own name, is right in the centre. I couldn’t tell you exactly if I tried. I simply really don’t know. All I know is that I was walking down a street and when I passed a staircase that led into an alley I saw the covered book stalls. As I’m a bookworm and, to be honest, you don’t necessarily find books everywhere on markets, I thought it was great to have finally found lots of books in a pile and had a look around. And no, unfortunately I didn’t buy any books. It however wasn’t because there were no books, but simply because of a ‘book-buying ban’ that I imposed on myself before the trip. I’m a big bookworm, but books are heavy and take up space. Extremely unfavourable when you’re backpacking. Hence the ‘ban’. And if I like a book, I just want to keep it. Doubly unfavourable when you’re backpacking 😀

Go or not? If you find it 😀