thank god Oxxo seafood overload this could be something right out of a country like
serbia a taxi from mexico city hi everyone and welcome to another mexico video this is
part number 16 of my 2022 mexico series i'm just walking in the middle of the road so let's hope
i don't get run over in the last video i had an absolutely marvellous splendid
day exploring the spectacularly stunningly beautiful san carlos which is just down the
road it's about half an hour away on the bus but today i am in Heroica Guaymas de Zaragoza
otherwise known as Guaymas if you want to do the short name and today in this video i'm kind
of doing the absolute opposite of the last one the last one was very strenuous and physical and
exhausting but honestly this morning about two hours ago i slipped over outside the bathroom
landed heavily on my backside and my coccyx and then hit my head against the wall not myself
unconscious so as you can imagine i'm not in the best place in terms of my general physical
well-being but this is youtube the show must go on so let's explore so i'm in the main square outside
the church of san fernando which is situated in front of these spectacular hills and mountains
in the distance this desert moonlight otherworldly backdrop which just makes somewhere like Guaymas
just so unique as i said last time it's very pretty isn't it wonderful colors as always
and the kiosks go in the middle i was going to say apart from the extreme sunburn sun stroke
migraine and almost broken pelvis everything else is fine so generally i am invincible in regards to
injury so i will just continue if i could just sit down in this video that would be great um
i'm actually gonna be doing that we're gonna be having some food this is very much a food video
i hope i always say that but let's see before we go in the church let's take a look at these
mexi dogs let's say hello cleverly and they've got the right idea they're sitting in the shade
and that's what you really need to do when you're in sonora because it is absolute meltdown in
so it is sunday morning i think there is a service about to start these stained glass
windows have seen better days perhaps they are having some restoration i don't know
typical mexican church on a sunday morning quiet and peaceful
so this place i've mentioned the big long name Heroica Guaymas de Zaragoza
jesus that's because it was originally called that without the heroica but then as with many places
in mexico like veracruz for example heroica was added to the name as a result of you know things
like the um revolution battle war specifically here i think it was in relation to the french
invasion in the 1850s i think remember the whole thing with napoleon and everything um i talked
about that in videos last year yeah my spanish isn't working today clearly um keep in mind i
keep in mind i possibly have concussion so that's my excuse so the shots we're seeing in a second
of the church behind me really are iconic because when i was researching here
a long time ago now probably the first thing i saw was this image of this church
right in front of these mountains and hills behind and it truly is so unique
as always in normex we've got a bit of a mixture of older buildings a bit of derelict and also over
in that direction and obviously the uh kiosko area it's got that colonial aspect as well
bloody animus who might do a bit over there actually of um Torreon n with
this wide open space very modern oh look there's a Municipal Palace
and this is the plaza de tres presidentes plaza of the three presidents obviously i wonder who
they are let's go and have a look de los tres presidentes adolfo huerta, plucarto calles and
abelardo
rodriguez all from the 1920s and 30s standing up here with these concrete posts behind them
is this the malecon yes it's certainly not like Vallarta there are no people anywhere and this
is the monumento pescador he fisherman um monument that's the word see concussion
you get a lot of these like in uh probably mazatlan vallarta as well
these fishing monuments obviously because we buy the sea and the um key trade aspect or aspect
of the economy here is shrimp as i've mentioned before so you can get camarones all over the shop
oh and we've got big boats again lovely there's a rubber dinghy over there with people rowing
and i can smell the sea i can smell seafood and you've got these uh sort of old crappy ships over
there little boats i guess trawlers or something for um catching seafood
more huge birds black instead of carlos
just like in san carlos there is kind of this feel of an abandoned fairground ghost place you know i
know it's sunday morning but it's very quiet i was going to go to a place called embalmer today which
is a little bit further out of the town actually went through there on the bus on the way from
Ciudad Obregon thank you to one of my viewers who told me that apparently it's where charlie chaplin
married a 16 year old as you do so there's a bit of interesting history here in relation to sort
of old film history i mentioned in the last video about um how san carlos kind of made me feel like
i was in acapulco with the the 60s starlets and everything and i do kind of get the same
feeling here that it's that kind of lesser-known beach location that celebrities and that would
come to to be you know less visible in front of um their adoring fans ours on that building there
how apt considering i need a new one oh this looks like eastern europe there are some other ones near
where i'm staying actually like some really sort of grotty flats with you know clapped out cars
outside the front as you can see it looks very run down doesn't it institute of social security
in mexico so is it like sort of social security housing i don't know i'm sorry to dwell on this
but this could be something right out of a country like serbia belarus ukraine the uk
you know countries in europe that required low-cost living after world war two you know these
three four five story concrete blocks i think in uh the ex-soviet union they were kruschyovkas
i think if i remember rightly named after nikita kruschchev why am i talking about the soviet union
this is mexico and there are cats over there hello angels thinking about san carlos for a minute
and here oh it's a huge octopus um there is the feeling that san carlos is the expat place and
why mass is the mexico place you know we're going to go to central now hands up if you used to do
this when you're a kid go through like a clothing catalogue and draw mustaches on other women
mustache oh look this is a nice little square very quiet there isn't a soul to be seen
we've got this golden statue up the top oh the centenary of the independence 1810 nice
look at this bloody weather look at it blue skies greens i mean it comes with the downside of
absolute inferno as i said um but it is top tier hello pigeons mexi pigeons
as usual i don't really know how i ended up here uh i thought i wasn't gonna walk too far today um
there was a food place that was recommended to me but it's like a million miles in that direction
and with my lack of functioning pelvis um i'm not going to go that far so i'm heading back to
central there's a food place up there which was my backup which if closed will result in a meltdown
fyi there's another church over there or is it a cathedral very nice look at how the clouds are
beautiful right and we've got more wonderfully colorful flowers i mean trees and petals wonderful
and i think this area is definitely more of a lower income area you can just tell
this is really different in it with that bit of the front
like the covered area with the columns and there are three towers on it nice
that's something you don't see every day in northern mexico a taxi from mexico city and
yes it is a taxi because i can see on the door where the lettering has been removed
on the subject of slightly run down areas there is an issue with youtube i think you
know it and being a foreigner in a place because when you come somewhere like this
you know i'm a foreigner i'm a tourist i'm not from here it's easy to kind of glamorize places
when you're not aware whatsoever of the struggles the locals face it's exactly
the same anywhere when people go to london and post videos about oh london's so amazing
i was born there i grew up there i worked there for the first 34 years of my life
i know the negatives just as a local here or a ciudad obregon would know the negatives it's a
comment i get a lot because it's easy to go to a place like obregon or here and think wow so cool
amazing and that's what you portray naturally but you have to keep in the back of your head
as well but locals are here locals are watching they know the reality there's no way on earth i
ever could and i wouldn't even try to because it's just not possible you know so it's just
a random thought to uh keep in mind when you're watching youtube videos those buildings up there
kind of up that little hill are the ones i was talking about like the uh concrete tower blocks
with uh like some old text on the side it says multi-something watch out it's a mexi dog
hello ah that's the last time i walk up a steep hill in my condition yeah this is very
70s uk brutalist with those concrete block thingies there and you've got this
some would say a horrendous concrete block i saw
coupled with the monumental landscapes in the distance where else can you see this sort of thing
the hills are endless you got that one you got that one you got that one there's loads of them
amazing
oh there's that guy i saw him from my place
who is he because of my pelvis i cannot walk up there any further
okay i'm getting this far i can't go up the steps i'm sorry you'll have to tell
me in the comments who that is or i'll find out and put it on the screen this is like a
balkan fortress overlooking the town as in the aforementioned serbia also north macedonia
had places like this with this stonework and rocks of a fortress overlooking a city look at this man
this is very pretty isn't it it's like central mexico with all the colorful buildings
polishing a turd to make somewhere look better than it actually is oh did i just say that i'm
joking of course as always but it's nice to see a bit of color for once okay according to google
maps the place i'm looking for is here somewhere i've got to say it doesn't look promising
i was ready to say for the love of God for the love of god but it is open miracle!
so we have tacos we have actual manta which is what i'm having oh thank you very much
there's lots of different options seafood related i'm actually having a few things because i'm
absolutely starving so i have basically two dishes one of which i've been incredibly excited to try
i might regret it because i've never had a certain seafood before which is manta ray
unbelievable right let's have a look so this here is like a gallon like a soup or a broth
which has in it manta ray as you can see oh god it looks quite scary if i'm honest it's like an
eel um but i've also got it i got the combined one with shrimp because i do like camarones and
originally cahuamanta it was made with loggerhead turtle but because that was made illegal to hunt
that it was changed to manta ray and i thought i might as well go all out and get a manta ray
taco as well i've put the salsa on it we've got red onion there's some lettuce which i've taken
off a bit it looks like there's carrot in it as well i've put some lemon on it too so let's chuck
in okay here goes nothing if i can eat a scorpion in durango i can eat manta ray he goes nothing
shockingly i like it very meaty um and the broth really uh kind of
adds the spice to it you know come on
i can't believe i like manta ray it looks a bit scary if i'm honest but once you eat it it's fine
but it's not as bad as the scorpion see what i mean it doesn't look the most appetizing thing
in the world does it and actually someone i know you probably know her as well there is
she told me that she isn't a big fan of this um that remains to be seen whether i am look at the
size of this dagger it's so loaded i can't even pick it up am i going to eat it unsurprisingly
there's so much on it and it's so heavy that it literally fell apart as soon as i picked it up
so basically i'm just peeking at it um manta ray i think it might be a bit of an acquired taste
i'm sure it's a bit of a delicacy you know it's not something you see all the time is it ethic
ethical hunting manta ray i don't really know much about that subject this is like mariscos overload
with this manta ray right there are some bits of it like that for example that are very meaty it's
just like a piece of meat you know um but there were other bits like that you can see the uh
like the scales so i guess that's the exterior of the manta ray and underneath that i can't really
do it on the oh there we go it's kind of a bit fatty and like jellified i don't like that texture
at all i completely forgot to say i also ordered [ __ ] not [ __ ] um it's a similar word um but i
didn't receive it and then i forgot to ask about it brilliant um apparently it's like the uh like
the broth from the caldillo that i had that you might drink like a hot spicy drink thing but it
means in yucky naked which was the state i was in this morning when i fell over and almost broke
my pelvis brilliant that dish was also a bit like what i had in durango the caldillo which was with
beef and a particular type of chili it was right if i'm honest it's not something that i would
insanely run out to get in the middle of a zombie apocalypse so i'm walking gingerly to the bus
station apologies i couldn't do more in this video but contrary to popular belief i'm not an android
or the bionic man but overall putting the two videos together i've enjoyed myself despite the
possible pelvis chancellor it's different side of mexico and i think both together they are
both very different but they also complement each other so great copyrighted music it's time to say
goodbye to this awesome landscape and it's also time to go back to obregon again thank god oxo
so yeah subscribe and all that like comment and everything um and i'll hopefully see you next time
hopefully again without a metallic coccyx implant brilliant catch you later