Welcome to Eat Baila Travel this is Jenny and I'm Kevin thank you for joining us today.
Today's vlog is going to take you to one of Mexico's most breathtaking national landmarks el Sumidero canyon.
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I think our tour van is here so let's get going, let's go!
You can find tours leaving from Tuxtla Gutierrez or San Cristobal de las Casas. In our case we were staying in Tuxtla and booked our tour from there
You can also make the trip on your own without booking a tour but our hostel recommend is to take a tour as it's more cost effective.
Getting to the miradores by taxi and then paying for your boat tour on your own will add up quickly
So if you want the miradores which we really did we recommend booking the tour
El canon de Sumidero national park has five miradores that are open to the public today in our tour we're gonna visit three of them and
this is our first one. El mirador la coyota was the first stop and it is 800 meters above the river
it was also the first stop for other tours so it got crowded fairly quickly
We spent 15 minutes at this mirador and then headed to the next
We're at our second stop at our second mirador El Tepejuaje. El Tepejuaje is a tree that used to grow in abundance here at this mirador.
This mirador is 900 meters above the rivers
and every view looks beautiful jenny pointed out something really cool about this place.
I haven't been to horseshoe bend in the US. but i've seen pictures and the curve reminds me of it
And the third and final mirador in our stop is Mirador Las Chiapas.
which is dedicated to the indigenous community los chiapas it's probably the biggest
Mirador we've seen and it's really nice to even come and check out local artesanias
apparently Amber is cultivated in this area and we've learned some really cool things about it
The ambar is a natural resource with a black light you can tell if the stone is real or fake.
Mirador Los Chiapa is the biggest one and also our favorite it is the highest mirador standing at 1,000 meters above the river
if this is your last stop before the boat tour
we recommend using the bathroom and buying snacks for the long drive down
so after number three we're heading out to the boat trip from the mirador up here it
takes 15 minutes to drive down to where we're gonna get them you know that means
Once you arrive here at this dock they sell chips, last time to use the bathroom.
and then we have a two-hour tour sometimes depending on the wind you either finish
off your tour at Corso de Chiapa or you come back to the Chiapa de Corzo or you come back to the dock
so we'll see the wind has been a little bit crazy the last couple of days
we still don't know what exactly where we are going to end up.
So we're barely starting our tour Jenny is afraid of crocodiles
well i'm afraid of the sun don't make the mistake that we did we didn't bring hats
on block okay and we'll see how your forehead looks like at the end of this tour.
Before the tour stars they want to make sure that you get lit quite literally lit.
Would you like tecate light or indio?
I like this tour already.
Rio grijalva begins in Guatemala where it's known as Rio Selegua and it stretches out to 600 kilometers
reaching all the way to Villahermosa Tabasco and emptying out in the gulf of Mexico.
In addition to its beauty Rio Grijalva is very important to Mexico since it's home to the Chicoasen dam
Which is the seventh tallest in the world and the largest hydroelectric power plant in Mexico.
You will get wet!
Oh my god! I am soaked! The water doesn't smell good either so
This was truly a one of a kind experience that made me fall more in love with Mexico
There were even a few surprises like a Christmas tree, caves and even monkeys.
Our tour was perfect until our boat broke down in the middle of the river
What happened? I don't know the broke down and we gotta switch over to another one
If you've seen our Patreon exclusive on Zipolite
You'll see this is not the first time that this happens to us
The first time this happened to us wasn't a bus coming from Zipolite and now we're doing it
with a boat join our Patreon community so you can check out that video this is quite the experience
We have better seats on the new boat.
Besides the view the most impressive part for us was learning the history of these canyons.
The tallest part of the canyon is named mirador Los Chiapas in honor of the indigenous peoples
who leapt to their death while being chased by the Spanish for enslavement
thousands of men women and children chose death over a life of slavery
The boat tour ends at Chiapa de Corzo which is the Pueblo Magico.
and now we get to have lunch excited to eat
as part of the tour the last like 10 minutes of the boat ride i was just so sleepy
i don't have any energy I need food! Our tour guide took us to eat at a local
buffet and the food was amazing but we were so hungry that we forgot to vlog
We're sorry for not sharing our food with you all we literally had maybe i had at least three plates of food.
I'm so so hungry we weren't eating well all day and it was good i recommend it. Oh my god!
Chiapa de Corzo is a Pueblo Magico an archaeological site where the earliest signs of mesoamerican
hieroglyphics and tombs have been found this city has been occupied since at least 1400 bce but it's
also known as being the site of the first spanish city founded in chiapas in 1528. thank you so much
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