Culiacan is often described as somewhere, even Mexicans, wouldn't visit.
Granted, it does have connections to the cartel.
It does have a reputation over the course of the next few videos were going to be approaching
culiacan without bias.
We're focusing on some of the fascinating things to do, some of the insanely, underrated,
local cuisine.
Discussing some overall thoughts and even having a walk around in 4k, believe it or
not.
Not everyone in Mexico is a drug dealer.
Could this be the time?
Your preconceptions of culiacan are completely blown out of the water.
It's time to find out.
Right one and welcome to Culiacan.
tengo Mucho calor.
It's very hot.
Oh my god.
Oh, and I think I have bronchitis but anyway, today's video is the things to do aspect of
this miniseries within a larger series and one thing that probably won't come as a shock
to you is that I'm not shocked in the slightest.
The one thing that might be a bit of a shock is that after having been here only for a
couple of days so far, actually quite like Culiacan, I'll come back to that point at
the end of this video.
And contrary to popular belief, there are not tanks patrolling the streets outside Oxxo
and Soriana.
Do not people being dissolved in Vats of sulfuric acid on street corners.
It's actually quite nice look, colorful Culiacan sign.
I'm in front of the cathedral Basilica Nuestra Senora.
El, Rosario Jesus.
That was a mouthful, but can I just be called a cathedral?
Anyway, let's check out what Culiacan has to offer.
Because it wouldn't be a signal of a video without the obligatory beautiful, fluffy angels,
I know hello, beautiful angel.
I think like Concordia the last video, let's check out the cathedral.
Will it be beautiful?
Let's see.
I think the answer to my question is, yes, I don't think I've ever seen a church or cathedral
in Mexico.
That hasn't been absolutely gorgeous.
Obviously I don't want to be walking around talking in there because you can see there
are people in there today is Sunday.
So people would be going to church a lot more and you've got a little map here.
There's a chapel.
a confession bit there to confess your sins.
You are here.
Yes, at the entrance.
Who would have thought a beautiful church?
I mean, cathedral in sinaloa, why wouldn't there be?
That is the question.
I'm now over the other side of the cathedral in the central area there's the obligatory
kiosk or very nice.
There's a big statue behind me.
Leonardo Flores.
There's a guy up there on a horse and yeah that's the whole name culiacan Rosales I believe
I think the original people over in this area in like year 638.
I think it was where the Hue Colhuacan, apologies if I pronounce that wrong and obviously it's
developed.
I think the 1500 Culiacan itself was found.
The thing I will say about when I first got here there was a glandular net.
He recognized me from the Durango videos on our time ago before I even started filming
crazy.
But I do feel like I have to be a bit more wary and conscious of people around me here
in this little bit.
Is that my unconscious perception of danger and safety?
And cartels, probably, it's probably in the back of my head.
But there's, I've got to earn it just by coming here and coming to regrow Mexico with the
viewer, you know, it's just another city.
Forget all that garbage.
That people talk about it.
It is in the back of my head a little bit more so than say, got it on.
There is a sense of visible poverty here and It's Ness.
But It's nothing remarkable that's in every city.
And I have been accosted by a young guy.
I'm assuming he was a red voice because he was trying to make some money by offering
his Services.
If you know what I mean, feels a bit like Medellin in Colombia because that was kind
of a daily occurrence in Medellin and there are many similarities here to Medellin.
I think, the important thing to highlight here in a place like, Culiacan just because
there is that issue, it didn't come.
Cartel.
And it's got a bit of a reputation doesn't automatically mean that every single person
in Korea can is connected to the cartel.
Everyone, I've met so far has been approachable.
Friendly kind hospitable, just as anywhere else in Mexico.
The thing I have noticed here is this 'missing ' sorry for the pronunciation. Again, missing people that are missing, loads of them.
They're all stuck to trees as well.
With the dates that they were missing.
2017, 2013, we're gonna go for a little walk and then for the, there's a bus, there's the
bronchitis usual Street Sellers, and I think that's a shop possible work love makes.
It certainly ain't no family gout, or some other boring expect we gon occasion.
I'm joking.
Sorry for anyone who's leaving him out of there forever?
Like totally on, to be honest, is got that kind of gritty feel.
It's a lot more, you know, there's that modern feel forth across this bridge.
Now this is the rio tamozula tamozula River.
We're going down there which is parque Las Riberas, no swimming dangerous Zone but you
know I guess it's a place to come.
To ride your bike to relax on a Sunday.
Actually, it's quite green.
Look at it.
What need to change the color?
Correction when I edit this?
Fallen trees, it;s like.
In Jurassic Park, you know, when they hide behind the tree.
Oh, look, did you just see them?
That's why I read about their iguanas.
Suppose, a ginormous mosasaurus essentially?
Is it an iguana?
I don't know.
Reptiles often tortoises.
I haven't seen one of these since Chichen Itza or Uxmal in the Yucatan look at the size
of it.
Isn't it amazing?
These things like absolute dinosaurs.
Is it going to attack me if I get close.
I don't know.
Do we go on this attack?
What a sight Tostilocos Gorge from Monterey.
You tell me about these.
I think see if I got any Hola.
Do you have tostilocos?
Ah, perfect.
Okay, I think this might win the award for the most Bonkers thing I've ever eaten in
Mexico.
But from the Scorpion that one time, it's Tostitos.
And I love Tostitos normally just like a packet from Oxxo.
So, you know, maybe with some salsa sometimes, but this is insane.
It's a whole bag.
Full of sausage, cucumber nuts, every cell phone you could possibly think,
Of there are also these other little red things.
I'm not really sure what they are, but it's just a bizarre thing to eat thing I know is
about Mexicans with chips or crisps.
As I would say, even popcorn.
like putting Salsa on popcorn.
It's bizarre for me, but totally normal for Mexicans.
It's just like a bag of flipping salsa with sausage who cucumber, nuts, you name it.
Mmm.
It's okay.
It's not Gourmet, it's a snack from a stolen ever in a blimming park, but I can say that
I've had tostilocos and they certainly are crazy.
Whenever you see the guys with the big tall things and Candy, floss, or cotton candy,
if you're from the US, what does it remind you of chapultepec Park?
Mexico City.
That's always the point of reference for parks in Mexico, right 2020.
Remember that car crash?
I'd rather not thanks hands.
Looks like these pedalo things haven't been used in a while, and I must admit, I am smelling
quite a bit of weed here.
But to be honest with you, when I lived in the UK, I lived above a crack Den.
And a heroin dealer who got raided by the police.
This park is actually quite big I surprised I'm not going across this weird Bridge.
That's underneath a bridge.
Across to Isla de Oraba Island over there.
Again, it's just like another part of the park, how weird is this bridge up and down
underneath the road.
What's going on here?
I guess, packing up for the day.
It's 3:25 on a Sunday, classic Mexico, Market underneath a road, a big overpass while they
selling.
Can't we see cuz they are packing it all away.
Jewelry cakes clothing.
I'm really treating myself today to some snacks, because In the next video, that's a proper
food video.
So we'll be having some proper food during that but this is fresa con crema.
strawberries and cream, how appropriate I think wimbledon's happening in the UK.
Now, that's very popular to have during Wimbledon.
Nieves is the best, hmm.
It's not just ice cream, it's Nieves Con leche with milk, I guess that is ice cream but this
is like someone else.
It's like off the scale.
It's thick, it's creamy it's slightly melted.
So it's not like frozen crap.
This is amazing.
Bollocks.
That's better.
Yeah, it's just wonderful.
I mean I know you can get it everywhere, Mexico, but it every time it's just refreshing and
gorgeous thing I've got to mention what makes this special is that it isn't just strawberry
ice cream from a supermarket.
Where I it's got actual bits of frozen strawberry in.
Can you believe it?
And I think the other one she was going to.
Once you gave me a taste of it, it was the vampire kiss
vampire kiss, right?
It certainly was a bit like one
Right we've headed out of center.
Now, going for a walk.
There's a guy collecting cans.
Following me.
I don't have any cans.
We're heading to our final stop in this video.
Probably over here is something interesting.
No this isn't what's interesting it's not the portaloo station, it's the Ferrocarril
I can't say that railway Station there's a big old train there, but if I'm allowed to
do this, but let's see if we can check out what this train looks.
Like the steps down here.
The guess a minute people Jesus.
Oh well those look at that.
Ginormous and girly.
Hi Huns.
The floor is like completely rusting so it's probably not that safe but when do I listen
to people when they say be safe?
Never.
Yeah, there's nothing.
It's just rust and holes, apologies, but this sort of thing really interests me.
You know, tramspam from my Serbia videos for here is trainspam are people living in them
the doors open and people as washing his outside or is that actually looks like workman's clothes.
Culiacan
All right, let's get out of here because he looks a little bit Shady bollocks.
I thought they closed the gate for a minute.
I realize it was behind here.
Expat Gringo locked in a train station for all eternity in culiacan.
It's the cops right now.
We're heading to the final spot.
I'm praying.
It's open.
Here we are.
It's the Capilla de Jesus malverde.
The chapel of Jesus bad green I'll come on to that in a second.
Let's check it out
Allah says, so this is a very bizarre experience.
You might say that this is Narco tourism, and, yes, you're probably right on a similar
to when I went to Pablo, Escobar's, Hometown in Medellin, there is argument about whether
this I actually really existed.
His real name was Jesus.
What is malverde?
But malverde translate to English is bad green.
And that's because he was a bandit, and he basically was like the Mexican Robin Hood
he stole from the rich to give to the poor and he used to come and wash himself in Green.
In the mountains to steal from the rich, basically, and many people in Culiacan see him as like
a hero at the Saint patron.
Saint of drug track.
Trafficking.
He's by the cartels, is seen as their patron saint as well.
So it's a little bit of a controversial issue.
Obviously you've got all these plaques around.
The room is quite bizarre.
Honestly, Jesus his 1870.
He died 1909.
I think, parently he was either killed gonna live.
Can't say killed and YouTube by either a friend or he was hanged by the police when he was
caught.
Here's the chapel of Jesus malverde.
What bizarre experience, candles, burning everywhere, you can smell the candles.
It's almost like an incense.
Candles everywhere.
I feel a bit bizarre speaking in here honestly because you've got all these plaques on the
wall with pictures of people.
Who are they I guess they're the people that Revere him I guess.
From culiacan and elsewhere.
What a weird experience.
I can't even put it into words, other than that.
I'm lost for words, I mean it's a small red, his Chapel Right.
I've walked into a car park to get away from the busy road and I want to do this bit now
just to try and articulate my thoughts while I'm still kind of affected by.
I'm a little bit affected by it, to be honest.
It's a thoroughly bizarre place to go, you know, I'm not for a minute, condoning anything
in relation to cartels or drug trafficking and everything like that and it's very difficult
to talk about something like that when I haven't been personally involved or affected by it.
But There was a woman that she was praying and similarly, as with Pablo Escobar in Medellin,
a lot of people kind of worship him as a saint but some people don't and seeing how she was
in there when it's connected to something.
So horrendous.
Is Indescribable it's inexplicable.
I can't even begin to describe it, but there was an article, I read the other day about
the cartels, acknowledge that what they're doing is bad.
But they're doing it for a good reason, a bit like the guide stealing from the rich
to give to the poor clearly.
There was a reason and there is a reason for it, it's so controversial.
I've even saying that saying that there is a reason for it sounds wrong.
I don't even know where to start.
With this, this video has taken a turn.
It's time to go home after all that.
The last thing I want to say, going back to the beginning, when I said that, I liked gliac
and so far, I wrote a blog post recently talking about why I wouldn't move back to the UK and
it was kind of all around the fact that when people say to me, oh, London is so amazing.
I just think.
No, it's not because I think as a short-term visitor to anywhere, kolya can the UK, whatever.
We see the good, we want to see the good, it's natural.
There's no way on Earth.
I could ever know what it's like for someone who grew.
Up here it or I could never know the history.
There's absolutely no way of me obtaining that in a million years so that's why I like
it because I look at it from a short-term visitors point of view.
The point of view of a local is different.
So thanks for watching.
This is part number one but number two is coming.
Next is a food video and we're going to be going somewhere else.
I was gonna put in this video, obviously I can't.
So check out there for the end screen.
So forget to subscribe and I'll see you Next time I catch you later.