welcome to durango mexico
this is Eat Baila Travel i'm jenny and this is kevin and we are two mexican americans from chicago traveling throughout mexico in search of home
and also enjoying the history culture and everything mexico has to offer
yep these couple weeks we're passing through durango and staying for a little while to see what durango has to offer we've never really
thought of durango as a touristy place and we actually never considered it as a place to live
but now that we've been here a few days we are pleasantly surprised
so why are we so impressed with durango well for starters we didn't know much
so it's a pleasant surprise to get to know things and culture about durango
durango is special to us because we grew up in cicero and there's a large population from people
from durango there cicero is a southwest suburb of chicago for those who don't know so what we
know about durango based on our experiences from chicago is that they make really good gorditas
more specifically gorditas de chile pasado which we've had a lot in chicago especially
in cicero there's a restaurant called Gorditas Don Angel which is famous for the chile pasado it's a dried chili
also that they listen to duranguense music or at least people from durango in chicago listen
to duranguense music right right and that they're really proud of their scorpions they're all across which
i think those guys are trying to give us something something about jesus
sorry you were saying i didn't know they were very religious
no but uh another thing from durango that we know is that they're very powerful they're
scorpions they're like so we imagine durango be in a desert yeah we assumed that it was a desert
but if you can tell there's lots of green behind us we'll tell you where we are in a few but
first i actually want to mention that duranguense music was made in chicago it's not from durango
it's i mean it's from durango because people from durango made it but in chicago so can you
say it's from durango if it was made in chicago yeah probably not it's from chicago i don't know
it's one of those mexican-american music trends
if you've never listened to duranguense here's a clip
that's crazy i never knew that duranguense was
born in chicago i mean i grew up with it like in middle school high school it was
like all the rage people dressed up in the boots the hat guayaberas yeah like it was
such a strange thing and then the dance can you demonstrate the dance for us real quick
but it's changed was always really a good workout i enjoyed dancing a lot of duranguense music with
all my friends from durango uh we used to go out to all these bailes and it was super cool
of course the popularity has died down a little bit but it was but it was a
beautiful trend and such a good time yeah early to late 2000s i would have never known
i would have never known though that it wasn't something from mexico so the people
who created it is what you were telling me that they're mexican-americans like us in chicago uh
something like that i would say mexican-americans picked it up a
little bit more but uh there are migrants or immigrants what were some of the groups
Montes de Durango
Alacranes Musical
KPaz de la Sierra
oh my god i listen to all of those good good times one of those where like "back in my day"
we used to listen to duranguense
we need to bring it back
but we haven't really heard it around here
yeah that's so true nor have we seen gorditas de chile pasado
so we're already off to a wrong foot and a lot to learn and explore so in today's video we're
focusing on our first impressions and the pleasant surprises that we're finding here in durango first
it's that it's actually very very green or at least the city of durango is we learned that that
desert area that we thought to be all of durango is only in the eastern part of the state but the
central western part is very very green especially now during rainy season it's gorgeous that is like
super impressive we came here we met one of my friends extended family members and he's telling
us about going to waterfalls going to hikes and i was like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
what about the scorpions?
yeah like
it's beautiful the pine trees are humongous we might not get the opportunity to go all the
way out there but getting the experience here in durango is really cool because you can see
the trees and the atmosphere around here which is really speaking of which the park that we're
at right now is called parque guadiana and it's the largest park in the city of durango and it's
absolutely beautiful family friendly it's like a ton of dozens of parks all in one and you've
got different sports going on there's a there's volleyball there's fitness centers there's running
tracks there's cycling tracks there's anything you can fountain pretty much literally this park
is so impressive and i never would have thought further i'm going to have something like this this
is i think one of the best parks i've seen in mexico and we say that because we've been here
every single day we love it here so much and we love parks and we've been to parks probably in
just about every city so just comparing it to the other ones that we've been to this one's really
awesome they even have a section of the park with world monuments like the statue of liberty the taj
mahal eiffel tower and leaning tower of pisa so kevin did his 5k run i did my power walk around
the park and now we get a special treat i saw on google maps that there was this place that does
ice cream inside a pan lucy and i was like what my two favorite things
i have to try it so here we are it's a little food cart called panet sweet bread stuffed with ice cream
vanilla kinder flavor milky way strawberry
more importantly what are you choosing samita or concha for sure
once you've chosen your bread and your ice cream flavor they'll press it like a panini to make a hot ice cream sandwich
concha with coconut ice cream
it smells so good you probably have to eat it fast how is it on your teeth it's not like too
hot and then cold that's amazing yeah thank god this is so good look at this i can't believe i
never thought of this before it's genius
you know what you haven't thought about?sharing fool
fine here
why didn't we buy two we should have bought two right
we'll come back for another one tomorrow
isn't it so good
yea you can have the one from tomorrow
we're still kind of like mind blown
i don't know in heaven with this concha rellena it was so good jesus is so good mexico i love you
just around the corner from the panet ice cream/pan dulce stand is the escaleras de los remedios
you see a mural behind me but if you look up you'll see an amazing mural all throughout the steps
how gorgeous is this and an even better workout ready to go up
we can do it
not like that i'm just kidding i lost count i don't remember how many steps there are but
there's a lot and the view is not as impressive as it is from the bottom so yeah i'm tired
actually if you look up then the view is
gorgeous equally gorgeous as on the bottom it is pretty gorgeous
I'm hungry again
another thing that has really surprised about durango is their street burgers
yeah so many places have street burgers uh here in durango almost every other corner
down in centro has one but we found one on last friday that was so good what's so
special about it is the brioche bread and this sauce there's the secret sauce that they use
that i i don't i don't know how to describe it it's just magical it's i'll show you but last week
when we came they were actually selling shrimp burgers here so we came back to try one out now
unfortunately we find out that they're only here once a month i mean these are still
amazing we're gonna show you these but we're so bummed that we didn't take advantage of those
shrimp burgers while they were here you guys these are some of the best burgers i've ever
had in my life that's why if you ever get the opportunity and you see something that you crave
try it because you never know they might never be back
all right let's go back for another concha with ice cream
no my burger
after they toast the bread on the grill they lather it up with that secret sauce
they add lettuce jalapeño peppers tomato onions in the meantime
they're cooking up the burger meat and the thick cuts of bacon
so this is known as the perestroika apparently legend goes that it looks like somebody's boot i
have no idea what that has to do with that strange word but i could see how it looks like a boot
maybe the sole of the boot but it's a burger in a hot dog bun two hot dog months oh what am i eating
yeah the sauce look at this i don't know what direction to eat it in look at this bad boy jeez
it's huge look look look at my the size of my hand
covers the bottom look at your hand it's the size of your head
this brioche bread and the sauce it's a secret sauce
oh my
it's huge
skip the lines in centro make sure you come to El Gavilan right here located on Gomez Palacio street
and Costa street you will not regret this bad boy but one burger is good for the entire day honestly
we're going to walk it all off by exploring paseo or calle constitution which is a walking street here in Durango
we've heard that it's a must see both day and night we're going to be checking it out at
night for the first time and from the sounds of it i hear lots of music so i think there's lots
of bars and things it looks like there's a lot of people too it's only about three blocks away from
our airbnb so our airbnb was spot on we're right where the centro historico starts locations
location locations yeah let's go check it out
wow there's a jager bar souvenir shops lots of
lots of nightlife it's saturday tonight but we walked through here the other night in a week night and it was just as lively
i mean a little less people but still lots of music lots of people hanging out
No.. what'd you find?
No freaking way
what's that?
it's a lollipop with a scorpion in it
dessert?
i think i'm good i'll have one seriously seriously okay which one do you want you want yellow
orange
maybe we should change the name of this channel from eat baila travel to the weird things that we eat while we travel
no it's just a regular piña
what flavor is it?
piña
what flavor is it?
piña
tastes like?
alacrán (scorpion)
we'll see when we get here
a live rock band sounds pretty cool
a lot of people there the beer house
now the ultimate thing to like be really super surprised of durango
was if i was to hear a live salsa band right now game over we're moving here
somehow i kind of doubt that durango doesn't quite strike me as a salsa kind of city
let's go to Plaza Constitucion
i don't know it gives me one of those vibes of uh those little plazas that they have like at
disney world where they sell mickey mouse shirts except here it's all alacranes scorpions
maybe they have salsa here
oh my gahd it's Pancho Villa!
he is alive the conspiracy theory wasn't fake
you know what's cool the nightlife doesn't end at paseo constitution it continues into plaza de armas look at all these street vendors
kids playing people singing what a beautiful saturday night how's that lollipop coming along
we're getting closer you taste the scorpion yet?
not yet we're almost there we're almost there
i say you just take a bite into it
wait wait open your mouth let me see what's in your mouth
the scorpion
oh my god
all right y'all that brings us to the end of today's video hope you enjoyed
sharing in first impressions of Durango with us we're seriously super impressed
with everything that this city has like we said in the beginning we really had little to no idea and
we're you know even though we had our preconceived notions of what we thought durango was it's just
evidence that there's so much in mexico and the world that we should explore with an open mind
by the way i didn't like the scorpion at all i'm going to spit this bad boy out
stay tuned for more fun and surprises in durango coming soon