welcome to guanajuato this is the
colonial heartland of Mexico follow us
as we spend New Year's Eve weekend exploring
the cities in Guanajuato where we see
amazing unesco sites, cool architecture
and eat the craziest flavored ice cream
let's go check it out! We start our tour
in San Miguel de Allende, a haven for
expats architecture lovers, and foodie
San Miguel de Allende!
Estamos en San Miguel de Allende, beautiful city, famous for its food and art and it's spanish colonial
buildings. Here is the basilica
in San Miguel de Allende, there are a lot of people here today
look at these beautiful flowers
san miguel de allende is a colonial city
and a UNESCO World Heritage Site noted
for its beautiful architecture there's
the church
Basilica! san miguel de and a is also noted
as being the first municipality to
declare independence from the spanish
rule it's also a highly regarded foodie
town so let's go check out the food
We're at this really cool restaurant that's called Jacinto 1930.
Got tlayudas and salsas, and margaritas.
Tacos with blue corn tortillas, Oxtail, fish of the day. I found this really cool marketplace
check this out look at all these stores. Hats, spices, macaroons, olive oils.
I'm at a piñata store, I found Donald Trump.
After exploring San Miguel de
Allende we drove back to Guanajuato city
which is about an hour and a half away
Los Angeles represent!
where are we? Guanajuato!
Feliz ano Nuevo!
I'm in Guanajuato, the streets are
lit up
jesuit church and now time for some new
years fun we just got 12 grapes for good luck for
2017!
ocho, siete, seis, cinco, quarto, tres, dos, uno!
don't worry no one was harmed in the
making of this video, just a little fireworks my friends!
The next day after sleeping in a
little bit you checked out the city to
get a panoramic view of Guanajuato
Guanajuato features a very unique
hilly topography with many historic
silver mines which earned a spot on the
unesco world heritage list.
Guanajuato! What mountain is this? The panoramic
mountain that shows you the view - it's called El Pipila.
This is El Pipila.
This is the spot to take photos in Guanajuato.
are looking at the panoramic view this
is Guanajuato. Look at all the
colors. Guanajuato is situated in a
picturesque valley surrounded by the
sierra de guanajuato mountains
this is La Valenciana basilica.
This basilica originated in 1788.
La Valenciana church is considered to be
among the most beautiful examples of
baroque architecture and central and south
America.
next we walk over to the zocalo this is
the historic center of the city on our
way without by many colorful buildings
alleyways and cobblestone streets.
Teatro Juárez and we re about to eat at
this really full restaurant called
Casa Valadez.
lychees
crema de elote
note to self, if you are even in Guanajuato,
stay at hotel
Casa del Rector, really beautiful
central hotel in the city and here
dia de los muertos Christmas tree
this is the inside of the hotel patio
look at how beautiful, so quiet in here you
Just to drive the point home, make sure
you stay at a central
hotel in Guanajuato.
day we head to dolores hidalgo to see
some of the site from the war of
independence this is Guanajuato, we
are about to go chicago and san miguel
de Allende and Dolores
Hidalgo.
[music]
This is where they had the cry for independence, Viva Mexico in this church. Viva Mexico!
This place is famous for its very unique
ice cream we just got michelada flavor
which is a spicy beer also a have elote
which is corn and shrimp camarones this
is mole flavors. Mole.
How was it Mike? Muy bueno. Cual es tu favorito?
aguacate y tambien tequila
That's shrimp, crap, and oysters.
what else, que mas?
fresa = strawberry, zapote = that's a very native fruit.
needed this one is called elote, corn
this is tequila y mole.
aguacate y tambien tequila
ooh, what city are we in?
Dolores Hidalgo.
i'm walking down the historic center of
the Dolores Hidalgo and i got more
ice cream - camarones y tequila. Which flavor
would you get comment below and let us
know!
Atotonilco - this is a UNESCO world heritage site. Patrimonio de la Humanidad.
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