Chapultepec

  Chapultepec Park is an enormous green area in the middle of all the hustle and bustle of this fast paced city. This park, the city's largest covering over 2000 acres, contains enough of the city's attractions that a short vacation could easily be devoted to the activities just within the park. The park contains three of the city's most important museums, an amusement park with an old style wooden roller coaster, the only genuine castle in North America, México's largest zoo and the residence of the president of México, Los Pinos. For water lovers there are lakes with paddleboats, also an aquatic park with water slides, tunnels and a wave pool.

 

 Chapultepec Park also contains special attractions, which are sure to steal the hearts of the youngsters traveling with you. Just west of the Museum of Modern Art is the Centro de Convivencia Infantil which is a unique adventure style playground that also has an aviary, monkeys, some domestic animals, a giant King Kong and artistic face painting. Adults will be refused entry - unless children accompany them.
Papalote Museo del Niño is a hands-on children's museum with tunnels and slides, giant soap bubbles and all kinds of scientific and technical games and gadgets. The attendants are all young themselves and very child friendly. Also, an IMAX big screen theatre, shops and snack bars. Nearby is an amusement park with scaled down rides for kids and Atlantis, a marine park that features trained dolphins, sea lions, bird shows and a marine cave museum.