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Mexico City

Mexico · 10 quests

History

1 quest
Zócalo, Mexico City🇲🇽 Mexico City
Zócalo
An Aztec ceremonial centre lies under it

Nature

2 quests
Chapultepec, Mexico City🇲🇽 Mexico City
Chapultepec
An insect gave this park its name
Xochimilco, Mexico City🇲🇽 Mexico City
Xochimilco
Painted boats work these canals after dark

Art

4 quests
Casa Azul, Mexico City🇲🇽 Mexico City
Casa Azul
She was born and died in this blue house
Anthropology Museum, Mexico City🇲🇽 Mexico City
Anthropology Museum
Water falls from a concrete umbrella
Bellas Artes, Mexico City🇲🇽 Mexico City
Bellas Artes
Four famous painters covered the walls inside
Museo Soumaya, Mexico City🇲🇽 Mexico City
Museo Soumaya
66,000 works spanning thirty centuries

Food

2 quests
Tamales, Mexico City🇲🇽 Mexico City
Tamales
It is cooked inside its own wrapper
Flan de coco, Mexico City🇲🇽 Mexico City
Flan de coco
The name is just the main ingredient

Sport

1 quest
Estadio Azteca, Mexico City🇲🇽 Mexico City
Estadio Azteca
Nothing separates the stands from the pitch

Mexico

Photo quests in Mexico City

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Mexico City holds ten quests across five categories, and Art is the largest group by some way: four of them against two for Food. The categories with nothing in Mexico City so far are Beach and Party.

Three of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other seven are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers three of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. A food quest names the dish rather than the restaurant: the pin sits on the room that serves it, but what you are going for is the plate. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Mexico City quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The three quests in Mexico City the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Mexico City

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Mexico City

How many photo quests are there in Mexico City?
10, across five of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are Art (4), Nature (2) and Food (2). Nothing in Beach and Party here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Zócalo, Chapultepec and Casa Azul.
What is there to do in Mexico City beyond the obvious?
3 of the 10 quests in Mexico City are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Mexico City holds three at tier 1, four at tier 2 and three at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Estadio Azteca, Anthropology Museum and Xochimilco, which fall under Nature, Art and Sport.
Can you do all the Mexico City quests on one trip?
Most of them, with transport. The outermost of the 10 is 19 km from the middle of the Mexico City list, so the cluster in the middle is an afternoon and the edges are a bus or a taxi each.
Which Mexico City quests can you do for free?
7 of the 10 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 10 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Mexico City means three quests: Estadio Azteca, Anthropology Museum and Xochimilco.
How do I prove I visited a place in Mexico City?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Mexico City is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Zócalo fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you. The Food quests in Mexico City sit on the room where the dish is served rather than on the dish, so that address is what the 200 m is measured from.