yes today is Saturday October the 27th hello
and I am in Mercado Jamaica which is slightly near where I live in Doctores
and day of the dead is a massive tradition festival holiday
whatever you want to call it in Mexico and it's actually on November the 1st
and second of every year but on Saturday October the 27th there is a
parade in Mexico City which we're going to go and visit a
little bit later but first we're gonna have a look around this lovely market
look at the flowers behind me beautiful there's people everywhere it's busy it's
bustling colorful and as you can see lots of locals getting involved
which is great there is a flower which I'm going to talk about now which is I
believe is the signature traditional flower of día de Muertos let's have a
look around
Just look at all the colours, yellows, reds, purply colors then marigold Ibelieve or in the Nahuatl ancient Aztec language I
believe it's something like CEMPASUCHIL
Apologies if I prounced that wrong I probably have but I'm doing my best it's wonderful and you will see me in
across Mexico City particularly down by the El Angel de la Independencia where
we're going very soon I really like these markets it's the first real flower
market I've been to I've been to a lot of markets before with food and
artistan markets things like that but it's just awesome there's literally
trucks full of flowers up there. Have you ever seen anything like this? I haven't!
right before you comment on my
pronunciation the lovely lady behind me just told me
marigolds okay I've got it right! The world rejoices!
something that you'll see a lot of in Mexico City and across Mexico this time
of year if these types of stalls with a Halloween kind of decorations but also
day of the dead decorations you've got like the little skulls down there you
get candy skulls I've seen candles as well all over the place that drop
material thing that that lady is preparing there I've seen that in you
know people put it in the houses they decorate in the hallways of their
buildings and also a lot of this stuff is used for ofrendas which is Spanish
for altar I hope I got that right which I'll talk a little bit more about later
right I've left a market and i'm on my way to Insurgentes but first I've stopped for food
it's only 30 pesos which is stunning It's gonna fill me up for the rest of the
day let's head off to the parade let's go
right I've just got off the Metro Insurgents my jacket is off I've never
seen the Metro like that in my life absolutely packed as well as the parade
today you also have Mexican Grand Prix this weekend Autodromo hermanos
Rodriguez in the east of the city the Formula One so there's multiple events
happening at the same time absolutely packed so I'm gonna head down Reforma
now I just ended up in Zona Rosa remember this from another
video erotica lost all yes the sex shop we're not going there today
that was difficult
ok it's about 2 p.m. I'm on Paseo de la Reforma
it's a little bit busier I thought there would be like massive swarms of people up
against the fences there are but not as bad as I thought it would be so take a look
around
it's now about half past three as you can see totally bonkers behind me
I've just been interviewed by two young Mexican guys in Spanish on my heart so I
somehow managed to get through it and by the way this parade is not an old thing
it's a recent thing so 2016 was the first one it was as a result of the
James Bond film so basically in one of the reason James Bond films there was a
scene in it where there was a big parade for day of the dead and it's become a
tradition because of that so many colors so many people so much food it's awesome
I don't know how much I'm going to be able to see but we'll see
the parade is about a kilometer long I believe it goes from just down the road
from El Angel all the way to the zocalo and I will talk about
this in another video but in terms of the skulls and skeletons I think it's
pretty obvious what it's about it's about the dead and welcoming them back
to earth whether that be adults will that be
children whether the animals and many people will put together altars or
Ofrendas in the house or wherever and where's all sorts of decoration and
things of that food things like that the dead person's favorite food and drink
tequila that's all stuff so yeah I'm going to go to San Angel in
another video well we'll talk about that it's time for the parade
this is really cool really loud smoke colors blow up Turtles
etc and of course this whole skull thing skeleton pretty awesome just a word of
warning a lady back there American blonde woman, not that that matters
she just had some stuff stolen like her phone be careful of pickpockets which
I'm doing
well I've come away from the madness all my batteries have gone too fast six
o'clock is a bit windy so let's go home and I'll give my verdict okay I'm back
from the parade it's about 7:30 so apologies for the lighting you can see
me behind in the mirror there I'm literally right under the light bulb
right now so are my final thoughts overall today was also it's another
perfect example of how Mexico comes together at times of festivals and
holidays and tradition and that kind of thing
the atmosphere was off the scale we know people clapping cheering little children
behind me on their parents shoulders going adios! when you know
parts of the parade went past is really sweet however there was something
that really triggered me and I think this is probably gonna trigger year as
well especially for Mexican I mentioned about the James Bond film and as I was
walking away towards El Angel I heard a native English couple speaking and
they actually said it wasn't like the James Bond film I'll give you a moment
just to sit down calm down right now and first of all if you think it's going to
be right James Bond you're an idiot but secondly its it's not so much about
you know what it looks like and that kind of thing at least it's not for me
it's about the atmosphere and that electric environment and culture and
people coming together that's what it was to cook for me so it really annoyed
me I've just calm down actually as I've got back yeah and and
also you know the thing that you have to think about is that the preparation that
goes into this sort of thing is just off the scale you know that's one reason I
went to the market and the mikado Jamaica beforehand the flowers were
ridiculous and that was probably ridiculous in a good way I mean in terms
of the amount of them and but that just highlights the level of preparation that
goes into these things so yeah awesome day
fantastic actual Day of the Dead is coming next week stay tuned for the
videos thank you for watching I hope you've enjoyed this video why don't you
leave a comment down below were you there today as well what was your
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I think that's everything I'm going to edit this video now and I'll catch you
later