so this building has... ooh my ears are popping... initially when I first got up the lift I
thought "is this it?", I've got an iced Frappuccino... "sorry I'm in your video!", that's ok no worries!
hola buenas tardes and welcome back to Mexico City today is a very busy
Saturday afternoon in the center of town right behind me is palacio de bellas
artes, we've all seen that before, but in this video we're doing something a
little bit different we're going up in the world,
we're heading to three different spots in the center of Mexico City where you
can see Mexico City from above so let's get going!
now if you're watching this video you might be planning your trip to Mexico
City for the first time and you might have seen palacio de bellas artes pretty
much everywhere you look in my eyes is one of the most iconic buildings in the
city it's absolutely beautiful it's Art Nouveau architecture on the
outside Art Deco on the inside, if you want you can check out a video I did it
more detail which is at the top. As you can see it's Saturday and it's crazy
busy I mean it's always crazy busy this city has 20 million people in it but you
know this is something else it's one of my plans for this year to
actually go out on a Saturday you know, I normally work on a Saturday but not
anymore so you'll be seeing more videos with a lot more people. So our first stop
on seeing Mexico City from above is up there
so there's Sears over the road from Palacio de Bellas Artes the clothing store and
there's a balcony up the top, I understand you can get a drink, stand on
the balcony get some amazing views of Bellas Artes, so let's go!
so I've come up to the eighth floor and there's a cafe up here with a balcony you
can see absolutely stupendous views across Mexico City - clear blue skies a
few clouds in the sky not too bad and the thing we love about Palacio de
Bellas Artes is the fact that it has this very colourful dome top I think
yellowy double the orange burnt orange color check it out inside as well
because it's absolute spectacular inside. I've got an iced frappuccino
That's ok no worries! - I've got an iced Frappuccino 48 pesos reasonably
reasonable considering the location.
oh good lighting so that place was really cool amazing views of Mexico Cit,y
the other thing I will say, I'm not complaining,
is that you know obviously in a place like this that's very popular in the center of town,
tourist place you will have to wait a little bit you know for your order and also
for your bill but I'm not complaining it was amazing but just be wary of that
when he come you know give yourself some time itself and actually that's a good
thing because you know he could really spend some time taking in the views. the
next spot we're going to do I can see it right ahead of me we're gonna go up in
the world once again! right so I've walked down from Bellas Artes towards
the monument of the Revolution which is up there we're going to check it out in
a minute but I've never been down this road and a really cool thing you've got
these lampposts and you've got a little, what would you call it, some sort of
plaque or something on the floor every state in Mexico
Jalisco! I've been there! San Luis Potosi I'm gonna be seeing you next
month in February, okay here's a state I have yet to visit in Mexico and it's
time to test my spanish pronunciation Veracruz Veracruz.
amazing I'm so pleased to myself I know it's not perfect let's face it
considering where I was six months ago I'm very pleased. pero PERRO oh my god
like I'm getting there
so the monument of the revolution has a glass elevator going up the middle how
amazing is that you know you've got this brickwork old monument and this modern
glass elevator going on the middle I don't know how much it costs but I say
okay here we go sixty
pesos to go up in the elevator
well hello Mexico City look at this you know what this place is a bit of a gem,
hidden gem but I didn't know about, everyone probably knows about it but
amazing look at the sky beautiful blue skies just a couple of clouds in the sky
this is the best day ever but this sort of thing you can just see out up the
hills over there the buildings up there up the hills it just gives you a amazing
idea of just how big this city is it's absolutely massive skyscrapers over
there where we came from the monument of the revolution there's basically three
ticket prices I believe there was a museum as well he can go right up the
top so initially when I first got up the lift as I is this it however you then
walk down round and round still get to the bottom and the observation deck is
about half way down so yeah absolutely also this is a great alternative view of
Mexico City from above which is the point of this video
this is bonkers I feel like I'm in the industrial zone in the crystal maze UK
people will know what I mean but look at it these metal stairs then it's very
narrow and you've got all these beams up here wowzers let's try and get out of
this place. wow this is awesome oh my god part of me
wishes I could just get the lift back down again they feel scared of heights
this could be a bit of a shitter for yo.u this was not on my plan today but it's
happening! finally some half-decent lighting so on the way down these stairs
you've got all these information boards is a bit like a museum I guess telling a
bit of the history of this building beautiful so every if you're interested.
right I'm back on terra firma that was surprisingly adventurous and judging by
the reaction of the American lady in front of me
that was awesome she was absolutely right it was awesome I'm really
surprised I haven't been here before beautiful
okay we're now heading to our final spot we've left the best to last -
Torre Latinoamericana! Before we get up there and it gets really windy let's
tell you a little bit about this building so Torre Latinoamericana -
almost did it David - was built in 1956 and from what I understand it was basically
like a marvel of modern engineering in Mexico because when you think about this city
is an extremely seismic area so there's been three major earthquakes - 1957,
1985 and 2017 and this building has withstood all of them. When you look at
it you know up close it does look like it was built at the 50s. It feels
like a building back in the UK you know you'd still see buildings like
this in London that were built around a similar time in terms of the style of
architecture but wowzers let's go up this building
so this building has - ooh my ears are popping - this building has 44 floors, i'm on floor 37
I'll show you outside in a minute but downstairs there is a big queue I think
I've got here roughly a good time it was about half-past five and as I queued up
the queue then extended massively out the door so obviously sad evening sunset is
happening very soon so yeah but we could turn to come downstairs it's got like
here on the wall has got those pictures of different towers around the world I
realize that I must be a bit of an addict when it comes to towers
because there's so many there's one in Seoul, Auckland, Sydney, Taipei 101, Tokyo
Tower you name it I'm a tower addict!
so I've been up to the 44th floor the observation deck I'm now on the 43rd
because I could not talk up there because of the wind
I'm sure you'll understand but this is absolutely amazing, that road down
there that's where I walked up and queued for El grito and there's the
Zocalo and it's crazy to think that you know the flag in the zocalo it looks
like a baby flag from up here when actually it's huge unless they've
changed the size of it without telling me yeah Zocalo it's just like
the James Bond film up above in the helicopter
well I'm now down on the 42nd floor just look at the view sunset in Mexico
City
stupendous just a final thought up here once again as I said earlier it's this
is a place where I can't believe I haven't been already the Mexico City
I've been here so long and I haven't been here it's crazy this just gives you
an idea an amazing idea of how vast this city is is absolutely humongous as well
as seeing the sunset here you can see POPOCATEPETL & IZZTACIHUATL
pronounced wrong obviously and in the distance which is also because as you
may know on a volcano geek so to see those who are up here is just
mind-blowing this is really cool 44th floor
observation deck 120 pesos are adults and adolescents
right we're back where it will started and if you're wondering why I don't film
at night very often this is why lighting so I've had an awesome day today I'm
absolutely exhausted I didn't expect to be exhausted and for it to take this
long so you know I forget what it's like the whole tourist thing you know when
you go on a Saturday especially you have to give yourself time for waiting in
queues and things like that so yeah I've had an awesome day and I hope it's given
you another perspective on Mexico City Mexico see is magic brilliant if you've
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