it's one of those travel things it happens get over it David
good day first world travelers and welcome back after our little trip to Cholula in
the last video I'm back in puebla literally for a couple of hours before i
get the bus to oaxaca so we're gonna take a little look around also later in
this video we're gonna talk about bus travel in Mexico let's go so welcome to
Puebla I'm gonna level with you I am exhausted I'm tired my leg muscles are
killing me my feet will blistered I'm really not in the mood to be talking to
the camera so I'm just going to show you some sights from Puebla with a little
bit of information on the screen so that if you come to Puebla you have a bit of
information wonderful this might actually be a good thing because you
won't have to look at my ugly face for the majority of this video later
okay I'm back near my Airbnb I think you'll agree Puebla is very beautiful
lots of colorful buildings like the one behind me lots of churches cathedrals
shopping and things like that I've only really went to the zocalo area which is
like the center of town which is a great place to go in the evening it comes very
lively there's lots of bars restaurants that sort of thing now two things you
might want to try when you're here are mole poblano and cemitas these are
two Mexican dishes that originated in Puebla one of them Mole is basically
sauce lovely yes mole is basically sauce and cemitas is okay when I look at it
it looks like a burger to me it's basically got avocado or that sort
of thing and there's so many places you can eat these things just look around
and see cemitas everywhere mole poblano very popular
I should be quick because there's copyrighted music in the background once
again shush so my Airbnb is just above this restaurant which sells those things
that I just said about let's go and show you my a B&B so here we are home a bit
out of breath because I've just walked up three flights of stairs look at this
place let me go over here because we're lying no it's not better but yeah it's
basic like a loft apartment which is also very inexpensive it was about eight
British pounds a night this is my room where's the light there we go
obviously I've already moved out I'm leaving any moment now
and before we head to the bus station I just wanna mention one thing about my
black I love my black it's so different for Mexico City firstly in terms of the
size but also it's a lot more homely and local if you know I mean I love cities
don't get me wrong but I don't think I could live in Mexico City and I said
before being a digital nomad traveling long-term working online that sort of
thing I really want to find a base somewhere to base myself in going
forward where I can do trips for YouTube and Puebla is probably the first place
I've found in a while actually ever that I would consider living here for maybe
six months because I can do on and a tourist visa effectively but yeah
so it's very touristy as well so if you are in Mexico City it's
two hours on the bus you can do effectively you could do a day trip I
would advise staying a bit longer because there is a lot more to see like
I said in our last video when I went to Cholula
that is pretty much a whole day you can spend there which I did and then you can
just explore pueblos eat local food that sort of thing I'm off to Oaxaca now so
the food I mentioned Mole and things on that I will be trying some food like
that in Oaxaca because I'm there for about five to six days so I've got a lot
more time so enough with that let's talk about how to get the bus in Mexico and
it get an uber to the bus station
okay welcome to CAPU bus station in Puebla so I've done lots of videos
before particularly in Japan if you are new to this channel you might not have
seen them where I talked about bus travel in Japan and it can be slightly
difficult there but how is it in Mexico is its bus travel good way to travel in
Mexico the answer is yes basically now I've got a bus from Mexico City to
PUEBLA it's pretty easy you don't really need to book ahead because
generally just arrived a couple of hours before or even an hour before in fact
the last bus was ten minutes before and I've got a seat so they're not
particularly full up this may be because it's the middle of the week I don't know
but it's very easy just come here what the company I use is au au I'm not sure
if they're the best company to use but they're the ones I use last time they
seem to be okay the only thing about bus travel in Mexico is that compared to a
lot of things in Mexico that are quite inexpensive I think Buster was quite
expensive so my tickets to or hacker from Puebla is 436 pesos obviously there
might be other companies that are cheaper but I haven't really looked
around to be honest so it probably would advise to do a bit of research which I
haven't done and yeah that's that the other thing I wanted to mention was
about bus travel versus air travel so Mexico is a big country let's face it
and I probably underestimated the size of it because I was originally gonna get
a bus from Oaxaca to MERIDA which i think is about 22 hours 15 hours something
like that it's a long time basically so is it worth it paying a little bit less
just to sit on a bus that long no it's probably not you know I'm getting a
flight from Oaxaca so MERIDA next week it is I think it was about $100
something in that region that's quite cheap quite inexpensive and plenty a
couple of hours you know it's not going to be dying on a bus for however many
hours it is so yeah you might want to think about plane travel especially this
domestic flight traveling from say where I'm going OAXACA to the Yucatan
wonderful I've got two hours now it's two hours until my bus so I'm gonna
chill for a bit okay I'm at the gate sorry about the noise there's something
going on behind me basically find your PUERTA SERVICIO DIRECTO
it doesn't have Oaxaca and so I had
to ask me
this is one that's the end destination - what I care
maybe is a stop off I don't know it's time to go on the bus I don't
understand the announcements in Spanish obviously for its near the time so I
just wandered outside and saw the sign up there that says what hacker on it and
also on the front of the bus so it's very simple let's go on the bus
look at the lighting okay fast-forward a few hours this is not my Airbnb I'm
going to go to bed and I'll tell you in the morning of my catastrophic trip on
the bus yes Mexico bus travel is not good good
morning and welcome to Oaxaca I had a bit of a drama last night as you have
just seen so basically despite the bus meant to be going to peripherica bus
station which was on my ticket as you can see now I actually went to Santa
Rosa which is about half an hour walk away from there as a result my battery
died on the way walking to my B&B I thought I'd memorized where exactly
where it was but it turns out that the road is actually called something else
in real life so in the end I was just walking around for about an hour and in
the end I found a cheaper hotel which had a sink hanging off the wall the
shower was cold didn't even have a light in the shower
so basically fantastic this is one of those travel things it happens
get over it David my AIRBNB is up there I think let's go so the good news is
I've found the road it turns out it is actually called that I don't know what's
going on and the funny thing was I walk down this road last night because it was
dark I couldn't see that sign 103 that's what I'm looking for
amazing I'm here and look who I'm with
I'm gonna call it Tiddles I don't know what the real name is beautiful care
hello amazing I'm finally here the catastrophe is over yes
Tiddles okay so the cats gone away I don't know where the cat's gone so is
Mexican bus travel a good option yes it's pretty much the only option to do
this what would the bus is like great standard basic leg room okay I'm about 5
foot 10 5 foot 11 it was okay basically and there's a lot of seats empty the bus
wasn't really full and the last one I got wasn't fly like that
the thing that could help is to have plugs on the seats I know I'm being a
first world traveler and a travel snob but that's what this channel is about I
need to have a plug so I can charge things while I'm on the bus and then I
may and maybe I would have found my air B&B last night so never mind this video
has gone on for longer than I expected just to give you an idea of the
realities of Mexican bus travel it's not always perfect in fact any bus travel
isn't perfect lovely next up we're gonna have a look around maracas fantastic
stay tuned don't forget to Like comment and subscribe what's your experience of
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