Teotihuacán is a ruins site near Mexico City, which to my mind is really cool and interactive, “looks good” and is also affordable. Like the entrance fee.
You can easily get there by bus.

The bus also runs quite regularly, so there are no problems in this regard. You pay 80 pesos at the entrance (at least at the time I was there) and then you walk down a kind of corridor with huts on the right and left selling souvenirs or food to the first pyramid. And yes, you can go up the pyramid. 😀
I would advise you to get there early so that it’s not too crowded. Simply because everyone really does climb the pyramid. At the top you can also take great pictures of the surroundings. I also took a few jump pictures back then.
If you climb to the very top, you also have space to sit down and chill out and take a little break.
Watch out for one thing though: the stairs leading up a pyramid are really damn! steep. I’m not afraid of heights but my knees shake when I look down on the stairs of a pyramid and see how easily I could tumble down if I lost my balance. In Teotihuacán there’s a railing you can hold on to, but just to give you an idea of what it’s like to climb up a pyramid. It looks great and it is, but it’s also really damn steep.

After the main and highest pyramid, you walk to the smaller pyramids, which are arranged in a kind of group. Along the way, there are a few vendors selling their wares, but mainly you can marvel at the pyramids, climb up – the central one also has a railing – and take photos from above and below, which look really great. The scenery at Teotihuacán is really something to behold. It’s by no means the biggest or tallest pyramid I’ve seen, but I think Teotihuacán is a really beautiful ruin site.
When I was there actually a group of four people was filming themselves dancing on the smaller pyramid. Was…. It’s interesting to see the same choreography over and over again, but a dance video with a pyramid in the background is certainly not bad either…

If you walk towards the museum and the exit of Teotihuacán – because no, you don’t walk out where you came in – you first walk past a few more ruins, which aren’t particularly spectacular, and then you can take a look back at the pyramid, which towers on the horizon in front of the mountain behind it. Really nice last view 😀

Go or not? Definitely yes! Of course, you should visit the centre of Mexico City first, but… to be honest, I would do Teotihuacán even before the museums. It’s a really beautiful site, you get out and you can take some really nice pictures. I can only recommend Teotihuacán 😊