right hi everyone and welcome back to my 2021 mexico series
this is part number nine can you believe it we're still in the state of sinaloa in northwestern
mexico i'm currently staying in mazatlan and today i felt like a bit of a relax a bit of a
leisurely afternoon so this video isn't gonna be a ridiculously dramatic heavily edited one
it's going to be relaxing which is actually quite appropriate because this might be something ideal
for you to do if you're staying in mazatlan and you want a bit of a break from the beach
and you want to come to a tiny little town this one is called concordia
so here we are in concordia gracias to these little girls for telling me where the toilet was
because i was gonna piss myself and the first thing as always in any of my videos there's a
kiosk in the middle what a shock and as you can see beautiful blue skies lovely green it's very
lush around here you've probably seen in the drone shots already another thing you've probably seen
in the drone shots as well is the san sebastian church and the roofs of the buildings are quite
interesting they're like a wood burnt tiled roof that's the one over here in the distance
is a big chair and apparently this is because this town and also other towns in the area are famous
for wooden furniture and as you can see you've got a massive chair it's a bit like a rocking chair
isn't it and people come along here and sort of sit on it and pose it's a good photo opportunity
here's the concordia sign and actually it's a refreshing change to see a sign that's a bit
different so normally in towns like this there'll be signs with just regular lettering of different
colors but this one's quite interesting because you've got things like animals you've got music
you've got churches furniture obviously as i said is that fruit and vegetables
and mining as well so i guess all the things that concordia has been known for in history
i'm starting off my relaxing afternoon by having something that many people have
told me about and also i've read about it's called raspados de leche quemada
which i believe means caramel milk snow cone yes i googled it wonderful and i
absolutely love caramel look at all these little streets down here with the colorful buildings
just let the cars go past and then i can have the food so here we are we have raspados de leche
quemada there are many different varieties so this is the regular one
i believe is it caramel i don't know you can have fruit with it as well but she did say like
regular one without any fruit so it looks like a big lump of ice it's all good in my book and
there was like a liquid and then she puts the she just i don't know what she does but let's taste it
it is caramel oh it's very caramelly oh this is nice the taste of it just like develops
yeah it's basically a big lump of ice but the caramely stuff is beautiful
oh exactly what i need on a boiling hot day
this could last a while i think because obviously the big lump of ice has to melt
beautiful i've got a store too
and i've seen literally everyone walking around with one of these in their hands so clearly it's
a must do when you come to concordia you know what this reminds me of a blooming slush puppy remember
them like you get the raspberry the blue ones and the strawberry because when it melts it just turns
into a slush puppy but better it's like almost offensive calling it a slush puppy you know but
let's just take a moment to take in this side of mexico that i think so many people
don't see or even know that it exists it's beautiful it kind of reminds me of tepotzlan
and bernal in a way with the same type of colours on the buildings and the streets
i think it definitely goes against that whole belief that sinaloa is hell because it clearly
isn't by the way that place i had the raspados de leche quemada isn't the only one it's everywhere
there are many places that do it there's one over there and i've seen other people coming from other
directions with it in their hands as well let's see if we can film in here good news we can
because it's empty and my mask is on obviously so my voice might sound a bit weird but as always
with mexican churches absolutely stunning saint sebastian it's the same thing san sebastian church
and it's beautiful look gold up the top chandeliers and it's often quite difficult
to film in churches in mexico a because of poor lighting but also there are often
services and things happening and obviously you don't want to go in and intrude with a
camera but it's quite rare that you can get up to this end of the church so it's quite special
look at those gold candles
i apologize if you're not a church geek i am a bit of a religious building geek if you know
what i mean in terms of its architecture it's quite interesting the architecture here because
i'm noticing a difference between churches and cathedrals in mexico in the churches often have
like the bell tower at the front and then there's like a flat part behind it whereas
cathedrals tend to be just different levels and different towers here there and everywhere
could be wrong but it's one thing i've noticed and there's something i do notice here actually
there is no organ up there normally there would be an organ
in a church right maybe it's under renovation maybe there was never an organ in the first
place i don't know the lady just sat down there praying so i better shut up and leave
what we should do
right i'm heading away from that central area now and heading into this area which very much reminds
me of jerez in zacatecas i was there last year i went to the presidency municipal and it was like
a big opening like this courtyard and it had the dia de muertos flags up the top because it
was dia de muertos at the time i was there you know the colorful ones that you see everywhere
in mexico and also it had what they have here history of that town so they've got these amazing
huge mural painting things you've got something there which even if i could read
fluent spanish i couldn't read that handwriting and apparently um this one here is to do with
the triumph of el ellario which is another small town in this area yeah 1810 there we
go and apparently in the 1860s this or sinaloa was invaded by the french which i didn't know
and this town which was originally called la villa d sebastian which is why the church is called that
was burnt to the ground and now you have modern day concordia let's take this bloody mask off
everyone else had enough of masks so i have um i was going to say a bit of advice if you're
thinking of coming here if you have rented a car when you're in mazatlan i would advise using
it because i got a local bus here from the local bus terminal there's like a separate bus entrance
behind the main terminal which is like the local small buses it costs 35 pesos to get here i think
it's 30 pesos for children but it does take like an hour and a half because like any local mexican
bus it stops off and drops people off and picks people up anywhere so depending on how busy it is
it could take a while it took me about hour and a half so just factor that in out of the center
really it's just residential there's a woman sweeping the pavement these cobblestone streets
and it does feel a little bit like just actually as you come out of the center i
keep making that comparison today but it's true yeah there's not a huge amount to see out here
oh my god it's a garage now this video as i said at the beginning is not a big one it's definitely
not top tier it could actually be this year's clues as all last year i went to a little tiny
town where there was literally nothing but i still posted it anyway yeah i wouldn't say concordia is
like the most thrilling place in the world or you know it warrants any more than a few hours but
it's still a nice place to come look at the uh the church up at the end of the road literally nothing
what have i just found oh it's gone it's the tiniest beautiful angel i've ever seen
angel oh never mind could this be what i've been waiting for i'm going down here
i can see mountains and stuff through that gate exploration david is it cruz... i mean concordia
look at the green and look at those hills in the background wonderful and the reason i'm
quite astounded by this is because recently i was in durango and here there is a stark contrast in
landscape durango was all drought waterfalls dried up sandy dusty arid but here is lush as i said
it's beautiful it's a good place to get the drone up i think
so
what was I saying about cats i think i found where the cat's hideout hello genius cats they've always
got their dark hiding places to get away from annoying people like me and also there are dogs
well that was nice i think it's quite clear from looking at drone shots there's a lot of greenery
and agriculture possibly around here and also cats there's another one and i was gonna say i'm
not gonna lie concordia isn't like a mind-blowing oh my god lively place but that isn't a bad thing
and i was thinking that you know i've never really aimed a video at older people before
i'm 40 in nine months i'm not exactly young myself but of course there are many people in the us that
maybe that are looking at places to move to mexico mass at land being one of them and perhaps if
you're watching this you might be thinking oh what are there to do what is there to do around massive
land to get away from that hustle and bustle this is one of them you know i would quite happily come
here in my later years to have a bit of a stroll to have some food there are some great restaurants
here as well by the way apparently i think billiard is common here as well one of my favorite
dishes ever so um yeah and i think it goes along with that whole thing of you know we talk about
well not necessarily me people talk about mexico being this wonderland where everything is amazing
but it's just like any other country some things are amazing yeah there are plenty of them but
many things are just average that's life there's something over there i've had it before but i've
never had it in a video before so why not fill in some more time with something nice
to see
okay
perfect right right this is classic me kneeling in the road eating brilliant
and then i was gonna say this is uh elotes fin del mundo you called this something
different is it esquites or something i've always called it i had it in um
pachuca in hidalgo and basically it's like layers of corn mayonnaise and it's got cheese on the
top and then you have salsa and lemon as you saw with my wonderful preparation bit and i love this
why do i not have this more often it's been like a year since i've had it
it's better than the one i had in um pachuco that was the one and you can get it on like
a cob as well is that the difference between the elotes and i don't know but it's wonderful
you've got corn you've got mayonnaise cheese you can't go wrong
normally you'd find these pretty much everywhere in these little towns it's
a great little snack to end your day with i've got a splitting headache
i need to go home after i've eaten this we're heading back down the hill to the entrance sign
and the one thing that i do really like in concordia actually are the buses or generally
the local buses in mazatlan that come here a lot of them look like old school you know us
school buses that have been painted a bit like in guatemala where i think that actually is the case
but yeah [ __ ] [ __ ] dogs did i just scream like a girl when that dog attacked me
jesus anyway there's a bus let's go down the hill oh look here are some other towns in the area
before anyone starts saying i missed them i didn't miss them i just haven't got time um copala that's
just up the road and i mentioned this earlier el rosario good travels if you're a long-term viewer
you'll know that that has some significant meaning 44 days left of full-time travel as of today
look we've got a sunset happening i'm back in mazatlan again kind of and um i can't bother to
get my gimbal out my bag so this is shaky cam all right so um yeah even though this video has been
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