this is the first waterfall I think I've seen since Japan!
tada! - it matches my tattoo - oh look at this - Enchiladas Huastecas with frijoles - if a
small location like this can do that to me in terms of travel and travel
memories it's wonderful!
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hola buenas tardes and welcome back to Mexico, in today's video we are
continuing on an epic journey across the wonderful state of San Luis Potosí in
Central Mexico yes I finally made it to the Huasteca Potosina region
which is over to the east from San Luis Potosi City itself, I have been staying
in Ciudad Valles and I'm now in a small magic town, yes, it's another amazing
magic town called Xilitla which is just another typical example of magic
towns in Mexico, you have the wonderful architecture, colourful buildings, that
small peaceful small-town feel which I know and love from previous magic towns
I've been to but there's one thing that I've come to Xilitla to see which is the
Edward James Surreal Garden which many of you have recommended, it's
something that I've been researching for quite a long time so I'm excited to go
and this kind of landscape around this area as you'll see now on the bus coming
from Ciudad Valles is completely different the polar opposite from somewhere like
Real de Catorce where we were in the last video that was all desert this is
very much high up, high altitude again and it's very much rainforest very green
I'm excited, so let's take a look around this little town, maybe have something to
eat and then we'll get going to the garden it's gonna be bonkers, let's go!
okay so if you're not familiar with San Luis Potosi or you're considering coming
here I thought I'd show you my route over the last week or so so I was in San
Luis Potosi over there come down here Rio Verde is a popular spot to visit as
well and which I didn't get time to go there, Tamasopo
you have Puente de Dios there's many waterfalls in this area so lots of
waterfalls, Ciudad Valles is where I came from today and Xilitla is roughly
down there there's also Satano de Golondrina which is a cave where
parents or parakeets come out of at dawn and dusk so if you have more time than I
do I could suggest researching those points of interest. On top of those
points I just mentioned there are of course tour places located in Xilitla
that also in Ciudad Valles where you can book tours like kayaking, rappelling,
rafting, that kind of thing trips do Tamul waterfall which is probably the
most popular waterfall out of all of them so if that's your sort of thing
adrenaline you know having fun then book your tours here - I think we're gonna
start off with some food so I've just been in this market behind me looking
for some enchiladas huastecas, you might remember I had enchiladas potosinas
in San Luis Potosi and they were completely off the scale so I'm gonna
try Huastecas this time but that market, the food is quite basic, it's like
tacos and gorditas, we've had all that before, there's lots of different
restaurants up that way so let's find somewhere to eat!
okay this place of decen 10, Tierra Huasteca Bistro Mexicano, 10 varieties of
enchiladas with dried meat, so you'll know that in the Enchiladas Potosinas
video that was enchiladas with cheese in these have meat and 10
varieties oh my god!
so as you can see, look at all the enchiladas,
there's millions so Huastecas is what I want at the top so six tortillas
with something something something salsa egg okay and cheese,
and refried beans and dried meat beautiful, apologies if thats completely
wrong but you have Potiosinas, you have Encremadas, I can't even say that,
Entomatadas con Pollo, okay this is like the place to come
beautiful, okay can we just take a moment to look
at the amazingness that is this plate so Cecina, dried meat, this reminds me a lot
of you know what I might have in Argentina or Peru Bolivia ten years ago
literally so that is familiar and look at the enchiladas, and it's in a
sauce as well, cheese on top we have avocdo and then you have frijoles
negro I'm guessing black frijoles look at this, this is so much better than the
enchiladas I had at the last place. okay it's time to film my self eating which is the
most difficult thing on the planet, look at this, enchiladas huastecas, with
beans, cheese, let's put a bit of that on it, there beautiful,
this is everything! what's inside the enchiladas okay I'm thinking cheese yeah
beautiful they are soft it's spicy and totally
beautiful the frijoles is fantastic, this is right up there in the top five things
I've had without a doubt, exceptional, then of course
we've got cecina which is the first time I'm having this, dried meat, that's just
like a thin piece of steak except better. Right let's get some frijoles, and some cheese, wonderful
Ok, the food is done and it goes without saying that that food was extremely
amazing?.extremely amazing? I wouldn't even say that in English but never
mind, but anyway I've got that thing that I'm
now trademarking called the Mexican food fog so when you've had such amazing
Mexican food your brain just doesn't work you might think that's a bad thing
but no it's a good thing because I've I'm continually blown away by the
quality of the food in Mexico and I'm really glad I went to that little place
I think it's a bit of a gem, food is one thing I didn't research here so when
boom sometimes things work out, so we're going to the Las Pozas it is the
wells/pools in English and that's where the Edward James surreal garden, it is a
bit of a walk it's let's get going, (whistle), hello, hello! (DOG)
hello (CAT) Oh typical cats right madness, and you know what I've just realized
something so if you're a long-term viewer and you remember when I was in
Indonesia in Bali in particular places like Canggu and Ubud but this feels
exactly like that it's a it's a similar humidity and temperature everywhere is
green around me there's these amazing views out into the distance it feels so
much like Canggu or Ubud, bizarre yeah I've said so much before about various
places in Mexico feeling like other countries in terms of you know obviously
Spain Italy places like that but you know Indonesia? I never expected to find
Indonesia in Mexico, this is insane very hilly this is going to be fun going
back up again I tell ya
and here we are I've made it so the Edward James surreal garden this is
going to be insane
okay we're in and as you can see here it cost 70 pesos entry as with most
places in Mexico it's always 70 pesos and I'm going to put some information in
the description down below so if you would rather read about this please
would have a look down in the description below but in terms of a
basic summary so Edward James were from UK he was a British writer and a
collector of surrealist art and he came to Mexico in the 1940s and created this
absolutely bonkers residence and Garden in the style of
surrealist art and from what I understand
surrealism comes from basically dreams or the unconscious mind so it kind of
defies logic in terms of architecture and art and design it's absolutely
insane, my Airbnb host and also Salvador Dali said that Edward James was
muy loco, crazy bonkers! so let's take a look around
but you can probably tell it's bit hot sweaty as hell, tengo mucho calor
no muy Caliente! anyway in terms of the architecture here
there's things like snakes and different things I don't know I guess that's the
point of it because it is kind of unexplainable in terms of the weird
bonkers crazy mad architecture but yeah this is a great experience so far
because it's no proper like trekking in the jungle you know which I love!
I've climbed up to the highest point I believe you can go to just up there is a
sign saying that there's no security further on and you're forbidden to
trespass but this up here is what I was looking for pretty much so there's like
a view point where you can see that bizarre structure and the rainforest
trees etc in the distance it's wonderful and I can hear a waterfall in the
distance as well stunning I'm sure there's a lot more to explore though
okay and just taking a closer look at this structure I know nothing about
architecture or not and design by the way but you've got columns
you've got narrower columns up there you've got even narrower ones over there
staircases you've got different shapes those floor bits are in circular shapes
and also there's something I want to show you behind me which is literally
the best part for me so you've got these or gates everywhere with stars on and I
want to show you something, tada! it matches my tattoo it was meant to be
I was meant to come here!
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Right I've continued walking excuse the hair I'm beyond caring
you can you see behind me, not that guy but the waterfall yes this is the first
waterfall I think I've seen since Japan, Kobe in Japan I believe
so put down your instagrams put down your youtubes except this video, let's
take a look at the waterfall!
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you could literally spend so long here clambering through these narrow little
passageways waterfalls jungle insects spiders there's an insect there bad hair
but who cares this is awesome totally awesome and it was so good to see that
waterfall I normally get bored of waterfalls you know it's a classic
traveler backpacker thing back from Australia New Zealand 2001 where
everywhere you go there's a waterfall not to sound like an ungrateful tourist
but that was awesome I know it wasn't that spectacular in terms of other ones
that you'll see in Huasteca Potosina but right here it's a waterfall I'm
now a fan of waterfalls I can't believe it! right I'm done and dusted in the
Edward James sculptured surrealist garden whatever it's called and I hope
you've enjoyed this video I certainly have enjoyed walking around here it's
been spectacular and the message of this video is so throughout this video you
might have noticed that I've been mentioning past trips of mine so
Indonesia Japan Australia New Zealand and why have I done that because this
small area in Mexico has brought all of those feelings from my past trips to the
fore and I've talked a lot about Mexico having so much variety before but this
isn't just Mexico as a country this is just a small place in Mexico and if a
small location like this can do that to me in terms of travel and travel
memories it's wonderful, so thanks for watching don't forget to subscribe leave
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malarkey and I'll see you next time I'll catch you later