but yeah this guy he just um he sat down and just had a bit of a vibe to him he was sort of talking
to himself and he had a beer and he turned his chair to like face us and he actually followed
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Merida the vibrant capital of the Mexican state of Yucatan has a rich Mayan and Colonial Heritage
the city's focal point is the plaza Della independencia bordered by the Merida Cathedral
and white Limestone Iglesia de la tesera ordin both of these churches were actually
built using relics from ancient Mayan temples in the area Merida is also home to an estimated 10
000 U.S and Canadian citizens who have made the move down south and the main reason is
that Merida is known as being the safest city in all of Latin America in fact according to
recent statistics Merida is actually considered the second safest city in all of North America
there's other cities like on the Caribbean coast where you'll see police with like machine guns you
see you see the Army dressed in full camo with helmets on and bulletproof vests and there'll
be like six of them driving around in a truck it's really not the same Vibe here you see a few police
but they just look like regular policemen they don't really look like they're going into a war
it's actually pretty easy to go unnoticed but if you have a look on almost every corner here
the security cameras
we just ordered a couple of lattes from Starbucks I don't really feel that confident ordering in
Spanish still but I think I'm getting better one thing I don't feel confident doing is bringing
the camera in and filming while I'm ordering especially when there's like a lot of people
in there there was a lot of it sounds like a lot of Americans and Canadians in there there's
definitely a lot of expats here one thing that surprised me a lot is how much English is spoken
here more than Playa Del Carmen even also you'll notice that my latte says rex on it that's because
I don't use my name and I order coffees it's such a hard name to spell out for some reason nobody
really gets it and especially in non-english speaking countries Lloyd is just not an iron
tried and tried and tried and I'm at the point now where I just make up a name when I order a coffee
so today I'm Rex we got this amazing Hotel here right smack bang in the middle of downtown Merida
next to all the cathedrals and museums have a look at this building it's so unassuming you
wouldn't think there was really much behind holes but I'll take you for a look inside
foreign
perfect sizing this room's trashed already it's disgusting we've been
here one night and it's absolutely trashed
there we go
tacos I'm trying to talk loud enough so you can hear me tonight too loud so everyone can hear me
foreign
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in Merida
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right we're just out of front of the hotel which is right on is it Cali 16 or Cali 60 which is like
the main sort of Road here the main walking Street Centro is about 20 meters down the road here
down this way is a bunch of bars and restaurants so we're going to take a walk down there you can
actually get Ubers here which makes it feel a lot safer than other parts of Mexico I think jumping
on an Uber just kind of gives you that added security but we're going to walk tonight and
it's perfectly safe to walk here it's about 7 P.M I just got dark there's plenty of people around so
we're gonna get some dinner
these are everywhere in Merida for some reason what did that lady say so you can
look at each other and hold hands so cute we didn't know what was going on what they were
here for and then there's this giant one as well everyone gets photos with it I like them
even the alarms are friendly here they don't make a noise
there's some weird stories it's another antique store
is it's antiques it's so cool
I love this okay first question why was that place on the main Dragon I didn't see it yet I haven't
seen it before right no and it was like you just walked into your grandma's house Randy thinks
it was the coolest place ever and I think it was creepy I liked it so much it was so cool I don't
know the dog was hairless and had like a bonnet on was it hairless yeah it was completely hairless
foreign
up probably 30 deep there's no way I'm lining up to go and get dinner no way maybe if I was 20 I
would have done it uh we found another spot we're gonna check out looks like a pretty local place
now yeah
all right sorry guys we actually had our camera run out of battery so we shot the last little
bit of this video on our iPhones you can probably tell but even they run out of battery so we had
to come back to the hotel to charge up our cameras we're going to finish the video off
but it was late and we fell asleep yes uh we usually have a spare camera this is it though
as you can see it's being held together by a hair tie and
um it's actually done now it's completely toast the buttons don't work anymore
we've had this camera for four years we've used it from our first Vlog a year ago
the Canon g7x it's lasted us really well but it's done now so we don't have a spare camera which is
why uh we couldn't finish the Vlog off properly without camera yeah but we did find a really cool
bar in Merida that had like live music playing it was like an old record store that sort of turned
into a bar as well yeah and they had this really young band playing and they had like chicken wings
and like real American sort of food it was really nostalgic like felt like we'd gone back to the
90s or something it was a really cool spot yeah we just stumbled across it we were just walking
around looking for a place to eat and drink and um sort of stumbled across this bar in this alley and
it ended up being really cool but the ironic thing is we we're doing this video about how safe it is
in Merida and we kind of left the bar because a guy sat next to us and creeped us out a little bit
Yeah I think uh there might be a little bit like anywhere a little bit of drug and alcohol use um
in the area it's not that bad though like there's not like crazy homelessness or even that many
beggars like we've found that we were pretty much left alone the entire time we were in Merida so
um that was really the only instance that we had where we felt a little bit uncomfortable yeah I
felt really safe the whole time and walking around at night is not a problem at all no uh we actually
got up in the middle of the night one night to go to the Mini Mart and it was like one o'clock
in the morning felt totally safe I wouldn't do that in a lot of other places in Mexico no but
yeah this guy he just um he sat down and just had a bit of a vibe to him he was sort of talking to
himself and he had a beer and he turned his chair to like face us and was sort of staring at us yeah
and we were done anyway we just sort of got up and left because we were like this is really good
we were done anyway um so we sort of just got up and left it wasn't really good vibe and he
actually followed us into the bar when we got up but luckily we left he didn't follow us or
anything that's the only sort of instance where I felt even a little bit unsafe in
Merida there's police everywhere but they're not like heavy-handed they don't have like
machine guns and like armor on like you see in other places they're just regular cops
yeah and I spoke about it already but there's the security cameras on most Corners there
um as a female I think if I was going to travel to Mexico on my own I would feel comfortable
going to married up by myself I just want to put that out there yeah and I would feel
comfortable with Mandy being there by herself which I can't say that about a lot of other
cities not just in Mexico but around the world in North America everywhere so all in all I think uh
yeah Merida definitely lives up to the hype of being the safest city in Mexico and the
second safest city in North America I think it is yeah and you can feel it while you're there
so no problems going there at all walking around at night being alone um I would recommend it for
sure yeah it was just a unique experience felt safe and we definitely recommend visiting hope
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