Hola Buenas Tardes and welcome back to Mexico. Today is a beautiful day as you
can see behind me you might be wondering where I am I'm no longer in Mexico City,
at least temporarily, I've come to the wonderful city of San Luis Potosi or as
I would say it in English, San Luis Potosi, but I'm in Mexico so I'm making
an effort with Spanish pronunciation. I've got a bit of company today, there's these
lovely little statue things located in this Central Square, a beautiful fountain
behind me, you've got cathedrals, everything, this city is absolutely
awesome. Today we're gonna have a little look around in terms of talking about
first impressions of San Luis Potosi which I might refer to as just San
Luis because I can't do the pronunciation let's get going!
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So sunny! beautiful! so the state of San Luis Potosi is basically slap bang in
the middle of Mexico, it's in central Mexico it's about five hours north of
Mexico City so I got here on the bus autobuses del Norte north of Mexico City
it cost about six hundred pesos alternatively you could obviously get a
flight and this state has the most borders with any other state of the
whole of Mexico so eight borders with other states which is amazing and this
state is well known for silver mining so you may remember that I went to Taxco
last year in Guerrero which was also a silver town. So a lot of the cities and
states in this area of Mexico do have a history with silver mining beautiful and
I'm going to be doing lots of videos from here so you might be thinking I'll David
go to this place go to that place don't worry I've already planned ahead they'll
appear in future videos. Right, you're now traveling with me
everywhere I put in the camera is where I'm looking, awesome!
so this park I'm in very much reminds me of Alameda Park in Mexico City I don't
really know why it's just got these long pathways we fountains and all the
benches to the side you got trees everywhere you got a church over there
somewhere, buses going past, wonderful styles of architecture here
I've noticed so there's a building over there this it looks like kind of Art
Deco we're gonna have a look at that in a second I think it's museum yeah this
is awesome. You'll notice that I haven't put one of those clickbait thumbnails
"is this Mexico?" "Mexico shocked me" because San Luis Potosi hasn't shocked
me it's been everything I expected it to be to be honest so when I first got here
this might sound a bit weird but I honestly felt like I was maybe in Puebla
because of you know these parks and the squares that you can see in
Merida because of the architecture you have different color buildings so where
I'm staying which you'll see later on in this video and there's those different
color buildings schools are sort of the same high as you come out of the city
you know and also this is strange this is a
strange one okay in some ways this city reminds me a bit of Havana in Cuba
largely because of there's areas where there's really like wide roads
cobblestones with lots of like old cars like and you know the VW beetles that
are very common in cities like this especially in places like Taxco
so it first impressions wise I really like San Luis Potosi and
it's everything I expected beautiful lots of museums of the churches sorts of
parks and I'm sure there'll be some food which will be check it out later
so I mean about the wide roads cars everywhere there's a bit like Havana
because it's surrounded by these different styles of architecture for
example that Museum a little art deco to me beautiful Museum of... I can't see because of
a tree in the way and up there you've got lots of hotels as well with
that lettering at the top and cathedrals and things in the distance let's go back
down there
another observation about San Luis is the fact that it doesn't feel like it's
been affected by tourism in a way in the same way that you know Mexico City or
Guadalajara or Merida would be I think it's a good thing because you can
experience you know local life in a way I haven't met any other foreigners there
were no foreigners on the bus I'm just speaking of Mexicans which is why I came
to Mexico the first place and this city in a way I believe is more of a base to
go to other place like reality cut or say a mining town in the north which I
will be going to there's waterfalls there's rain forests to the east other
places of interest which as I said I will be doing in future videos and I
cannot wait but this is a great little base to come to it I think if you're
looking for an alternative to some where there is more tourist orientated like
Guadalajara or somewhere of a similar size I would say maybe a little bit
smaller I think this this city is it's the place to come
this is a first impressions video obviously which means they're going to
keep on coming to look at this street obviously in Mexico because of
Spanish colonialism there is a huge influence in terms of European style
architecture and I've said it before I think was in tlaquepaque there I felt
like as I was in Italy so this is this feels very much like somewhere like
Sorrento or Naples which I've said a million times before but there seems to
be such a similarity between Spanish and Italian influence in terms of
architecture it's beautiful look what I found
amazing I'm not normally one for tourist things like this but this is the chandi
a touristic or tourist bus that goes around so much better than the hoodie
bus in Mexico City how cute is that I'm actually do this another video for the
first time ever
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okay I need food I'm starving and I'm sorry Mexico but I'm not gonna
happen except a food in this video it's time for pizza you know one of them
times he desperate for pizza it's gonna happen anyway I've just sat in this
Plaza over here times throwing all the footage from this video so far onto my
laptop because basically I thought about my phone if you didn't know with a
stabilizer I don't have a camera and I don't have an ax micro SD card because I
left it in a taxi in Medellin Colombia last year I'm going to buy one yet so
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this isn't pizza this is Chinese a change my mind I couldn't find the pizza
place I want it I've never had a patient food in Mexico this is a first because
whenever I look at it it has like rice with my sausages it's that's not agent
booth but still looks a lot chicken rice
all right okay it's clearly not authentic Asian food but it fills you up and it's good for 48 pesos.
I'm walking back home full of food absolutely stop see what I mean about
why I said earlier Merida very similar in terms of the building colors the
building heights sorry I'm an architecture geek my place is just up
there let's go and check out my a B&B oh my god a comedy would have said that all
right here we go
so those of you that saw the video I did in Oaxaca last year you will know
I don't stay in you know luxury expensive bases because quite frankly I
can't afford it and what's the point of a budget traveler quite simply so I'm on
the roof I've got this little lighting I've got this little area there to sit
beautiful there's a washing machine up there with places to wash your clothes
that's not my bed have a look inside so excuse the mess so
I've got a desk I've got a lovely chair to do English lessons from and to edit
videos I've got a TV I've got a microwave I've got a sofa when I got a
lovely bed come on lighting there we go wonderful and you get all the toiletries
and towel and everything so it's wonderful and it costs 78 pounds British
pounds I'll put all the things at the balm for nine nights nine nights let us
repeat that again nine nights 78 pounds amazing so how many peas with it okay
I'm boiling hot I think I might be developing the minor tad hopefully that
will continue over the next couple of weeks I'm here so I hope you enjoyed
having a look around San Luis Potosi just to clarify there is a multitude of
videos to come from here this is just the first one so if you want to check
them out check the playlist out it's in the description below easy to find
beautiful and if you want to see those videos don't forget to subscribe as well
I'm gonna have a rest now and I'll catch you later