good day first world travelers and welcome back we are about to embark on an epic
journey across the Yucatan Peninsula in the northeast area of Mexico today I am
in MERIDA an awesome gorgeous city full of colonial architecture full of parks
full of places to see and full of local food so why don't we can have a look let's
go
so welcome to MERIDA on an extremely hot day it's about 38 degrees at the moment
this is quite possibly the hottest I have ever been just my first impressions
first of all of this place let's start walking I really like it if you saw my
recent videos from Oaxaca I wasn't really blown away by that place but
MERIDA is so different it's much more tropical it's extremely hot it's another
example of just how diverse Mexico here and previously in other videos you saw
me go to a lot of Aztec places like TEOTIHUACAN etc but this area of the world
the Yucatan Peninsula is more Mayan there's a lot more Mayan history and in
the next video I will be going to UXMAL now MERIDA
is another example in Mexico of a variety of architecture so you have
older style buildings like that one and you also have ART deco style like
that one amazing and they're all very colorful blues yellows reds just like
you've seen other videos and other VIDEOS of Mexico
I'm now in like a ZOCALO area in the center lots of benches to sit down lots
of places around the outside where you can buy things like food souvenirs that
kind of thing it is very touristy MERIDA let's have a look around at some
cathedrals I think next and maybe some food
just to highlight the tourist aspect of Marina you can obviously get one of the
open top BUSES there and also those old fashioned horse and cart things very
nice with a handy umbrella get out of the way Van yes so obviously as I said
before if you are a tourist on holiday and look at that Volkswagen Beetle
amazing there are lots of ways you can get around Marita or alternatively you
can just walk around like me
this is the main cathedral in MERIDA it's just off the central square just
opposite those buses and all carts I said about inside it is very impressive
it's another example of wonderful architecture in terms of cathedrals
churches that sort of thing in Mexico I wouldn't say it's as grand or
extravagant as ones I've seen before in Mexico City and PUEBLA places
LIKE THAT but despite that it's still very impressive the Pope has been here
there's lots of pictures of the Pope up in there and the thing that was probably
the most impressive for me was the huge cross the crucifix at the top with the
big Jesus on it the big Jesus on it sorry for the religion disrespect but
you know what I mean it was very impressive I'm being positive wonderful
Cathedral great place to come when you're in MERIDA now this is gonna sound
really strange just walking down this street here you can see there lots of
shops things on that I'm very close to a MERCADO a market MERCADO lucas de gálvez
we're gonna go there in a minute this reminds me very much of places in
Asia like Thailand and Indonesia particularly and also on top of that and
this road is really strange because of the Art Deco architecture and the hot
weather it reminds me of when I was in high low or Hilo in the Big Island in
Hawaii because there's also Art Deco architecture there which was built after
a tsunami yeah extremely varied we're gonna have some food now I think cuz I
am starving and yes we're gonna have some Mexican food we'll check out this
market let's go there's even places filling rambutans it's a fruit basically
very commonly Indonesia in Java as well so I mean about the Asian thing I'm
confused or country I'm in right now
so this market is pretty much just like every other market I've been to in my
Mexico videos bad lighting lots of places to a typical Mexican food I am
looking for some more Mayan influence booths because from what I've read the
food in the reader is all Mayan has more of a Caribbean feel as well so far I've
only when you find Mexican stuff so perhaps I gonna have to go somewhere
else and another thing about these markets is it's like a maze you could
walk around these places for ages potentially buying some souvenirs buying
some food or some piñatas I don't think I've got room for one of them but I'm on
the hunt for food this is a food hunt if not I just have some Mexican stuff so
the good news is I have found somewhere to eat very close to another market
which is very close I come up with a name I'll put it down upon and it's my
curse of open food court things like this and there's two dishes that I have
researched there are apparently more common to the Yucatan which are excuse
the pronunciations SALBUTES and PANUCHOS in here they are the foods of
the right lovely gracias so it costs about 15 person
for each one and cuddly uncle three like tortillas some sort of me let's see what
that is let's taste
I THINK THAT'S CHICKEN YES IT'S chicken moon that beautiful from various other
vegetables like lettuce I can say tomorrow I imagine it looks very nice
and there's some kind I think refried beans as well is all for someone else
so I'm enough talking let's try and fill me in this this is why I don't do food
videos I've also been given this some sort of drink I don't know what it is is
white here taste very nice let's take that
kind of milky this probably have an aftertaste anyway onto the food so as
you know from the previous videos I don't like first of all so I'm taking
the lettuce off good boy lettuce our said chicken
problem there's the tortilla very nice
beautiful
no nice THAT'S ALL I CAN AY REALLY
and I think of the refried beans fantastic
I'm just going to DO IT LIKE THAT AND EAT IT
THAT'S heaven
I ALWAYS FORGET HOW MUCH I LIKE MEXICAN FOOD UNTIL I EAT IT
FANTASTIC FOOD TO HAVE IN MERIDA down and also what I thought with my OAXACA
cheese I think is cabbage I'm eating in the film in Mexico and I don't mind it
it's actually quite nice look at me in cabbage hmm
this just shows how much I've grown Oh CABBAGE
LOOK AT ME DOING A food video I'm not a
food expert I'm not a FOODIE I know no I know nothing about this but I mean yeah
all I know is it tastes nice yeah spicy BREADY, A LITTLE BIT CRUNCHY because
of the cabbage chicken is beautiful fantastic and fast forward to a few
hours later I've cut my hair and the Sun is going down which means I can actually
see what I'm doing for the first time in this video fantastic
I'm going to a place called Casa Maya which is like a restaurant bar the guy
at the beginning of this video who told me about the places to buy the Mayan
clothing and things like that tell me about it pAPPARANTLY I CAN get a free
margarita if I use the card so let's see if that works out so I mean Casa Maya
as you can see I'm the only one here and there's no free margarita I fell from
that one HOOK, LINE AND SINKER so people have asked me why do I do food videos
this is why bad lighting lovely and there's my CAIPARINHA YES amazing so cheers
everyone CAIPARINHA A WONDERFUL brazilian drink
okay the food is here let's see if I can do a better job this time at describing
it let me show you so what I can understand is like a refried tortilla
beautiful it has the lettuce on the bottom like the other thing I had
earlier it has chicken the chicken looks amazing it has red onion I think
tomorrow and have a card oh and you know what I normally hate avocados but I'm
it's actually growing on me I'm not sure if I can eat a bit that it's that thick
but we'll see just tie some of the chicken
beautiful all that is heaven you know what I'm gonna eat it with the latest I
don't care lovely look at that
it's beautiful mmm guys heaven so the chicken is very moist I hate it when I
have dried chicken the tortilla thing is a bit fat a bit greasy that's good mmm
heaven I'll just dip it in the welcome only stuff not always that is stunning
can we get it in focus and are we calm this is heaven beautiful Sal boot Eze
probably pronounced wrong
so I've got one left a couple other things about this there are no refried
beans on it unlike the other one and it's the
tortilla thing is a lot softer and thicker especially on the bottom it was
wonderful possibly because it is more expensive
but I don't care I like it so that food was wonderful actually all of the food
I've had in this video has been out of this world
the only thing about Mexican food for me is it is very filling so if you have a
small stomach like me pace yourself because I could probably
not eat for a week now I have a food baby you don't want to see my stomach I
am so fat right now so I'm back in the ZOCALO the main square off MERIDA
in this video why don't we have a look around
night time marina this is something I don't do in many videos come out at
night which I'm normally exhausted after filming during the day there's something
going on over there let's go have a look
so I'm back where I started this video and before this video gets any longer
and the line gets any worse and I eat any more food I'm gonna bring this video
to a close I've had a really good day today exploring MERIDA I hope you've
enjoyed having a look around as well seeing what food you can eat places you
can visit etc next up we are going somewhere absolutely awesome remember
TEOTIHUACAN we're gonna do something similar we're heading to
UXMAL on a bus in the next video so change soup for that don't forget to
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