today I am in ATLIXCO as you can see behind me this is a small town about
an hour to the southwest of Puebla and just look at it it's amazing
fantastic weather I don't know the word for weather sorry
yeah so this is a Pueblo Magico another magic town in Mexico and it's
just a typical example of the type of towns you can expect in Mexico it again
it reminds me of places like tlaquepaque Coyoacan, San Angel a lot of the
typical features in terms of a Zocalo central square lots of colorful
buildings around me which we'll take a look at in a bit one of the key
industries in this area is floristry or flowers as you can probably tell from
the wonderful scenery behind me there's also something amazing about this town
which we're gonna check out it's something that I'm absolutely fascinated
with which you might know if you're a long-term viewer let's take a look
around
so you might be wondering what is a magic town a couple if I haven't talked
about this before but basically across Mexico many small towns have been
designated a magic town quite simply in terms of the beauty preserving the
culture that kind of thing because obviously there's a lot of development
in countries and it's nice when you can come to a place like this that remain
unchanged I guess and highlight the beauty of Mexico which again I said
before is something people don't think about people don't think that Mexico is
a beautiful country and has places like this that you can come to so I would
absolutely recommend when you come to Mexico try and come to as many magic
towns as possible yeah there's similarities with a lot of them but each
of them I think have their own individual charm in terms of getting
here today I'm going to put the details of the bus station in the description
below so one of the things about being in Puebla but I've noticed both times up
into parabola is the fact that there's so many bus stations and going places
can be a bit of a minefield for example going to Cholula there's a certain bus
station going to Cholula there's a certain bus station that comes to a
disco so yeah it costs 35 Mexican pesos great deal I put the details of the
other currencies down below and it took about 45 minutes I'd say so not too bad
and it's at the foot of POPCATEPETL the volcano you might remember
that a few months ago I did a tour to Iztaccihuatl pronounced wrong by
the way and it was really awful day in terms of weather unlike today and the
soak I couldn't see Popocatepetl on that day so I'm really looking forward
to seeing it today I did see it on the bus on the way here erupting it's in a
constant state of eruption I believe at the moment active volcano and there is a
place I can go here to get an awesome view so we're gonna go there a bit later
so here's POPOCATEPETL and IZTACCIHUATL if you want to check
out the story behind these two volcanoes it's really interesting it's like a myth
legend kind of thing it's like the the Snow White of Mexico you can check out
my Iztacchuatl video I'll link it up above rather than explaining it now
also
it's not expected another massive market full of amazing food literally so much
there's Cemitas which I'm thinking I might try as I haven't had that yet that's another
popular dish in Puebla state effectively just look at
it we've got meats you've got male
different types of male to hatch in the other video remember the mole poblano
and various other things so when I'm excited on the hungry as well it's only
right I'm having cemitas so it's basically a torta, a sandwich and a big roll
this place has various different fillings so from what I understand they come with avocado, i don't like avocado
there's lettuce cheese which she's preparing behind me I think I'm having
salchicha (sausage) so there's various things you can have in it
amazing so I have sausage cheese
I've got chillies as well and frijoles as well as small amount of frijoles in
the top bit it's an absolute beast I don't know how to eat this
It's like Oaxaca cheese
Look at the sausage, there's so much sausage
This is the best thing I've tasted ever! Mexico has turned me into a complete and utter pig
when it comes to food
I cannnot get enough of this
I think someone might have to get me a wheelchair to go home
so that was a nice bit of music, I have a potentially rabid dog barking at me
behind me as I climb up this hill no I'm not back in Guanajuato I am
climbing up to a lookout point where apparently you can say POPOCATEPETL
in the distance I think I'm going the wrong way but I just found some steps
worth worth a lot view people obviously that's not public at a pet oh I think
it's on the other side but just look colorful buildings over there another
hill and more hills and over the other side is that church I went to earlier
briefly I think I'll go into the other side
I found another load of stairs plazuela de la danza no idea what that means but
there's a picture of a church on a hill well as you can tell my stabilizers
going a bit haywire I'm not sure what's going on but I'm at basically like a
lookout there's a couple of lookouts I'm yet to see POPOCATEPETL this is quite
funky I'm going all the different angles it's like a it's like scream the movie
that was all like it like crazy angles when murdering people I still got to see
POPOCATEPETL I think it's a bit cloudy now so I don't know if I can but
if you join my Instagram follow my Instagram you'll see that I did see
earlier erupting I promise I think I want to leave it one key it looks
alright so as with many places in Mexico for example CHOLULA the Spanish decided
to build a church on top of a hill which is where I'm going now
I think POPOCATEPETL is right in front of me but those clouds everywhere and I
can't see it again that's where my life mission to see POPOCATEPETL erupting and
getting on camera maybe next time
so we may not have been able to see POPOCATEPETL as promised sometime in
the future it will happen I promise you but look at the views behind me I have
no words another magical magic town in Mexico this brings to the end of my
two-week trip Guadalajara Guanajuato Puebla Atlixco I'll go back to
Mexico City now literally for the rest of October so expect a lot more videos
coming from there before Day of the dead at the end of the month excited and also
a trip to TAXCO early November so thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed
having a look around this lovely little town and I'll catch you later catch you
later now I'm back again this is just a little
addendum to this video I'm now back in Mexico City as you can tell that's not
my punching bag it's my Airbnb hosts and I've done a bit
of washing and I'm a bit Brown actually from that day in ATLIXCO I'm on
the way back from Mexico City after basically this the whole thing about
this videos but I didn't see POPOCATEPETL erupting or= POPOCATEPETL
itself oh my god this is what I saw on the way back from
Puebla to Mexico see sunset volcanoes is taxi route our POPOCATEPETL initially
and there wasn't anything coming from the top of the volcano but then all of a
sudden there was and so I was really lucky to be able to see that and you
know it's been permanently erupting since 1994 and so it's not like a thing
that just happens all night it happens all the time
and but just to see that was in it's because I'm a volcano nerd I'm a volcano
geek and I literally was close to tears after you know the couple of times of
trying to see this and I was done I don't need to travel anymore
this is what I wanted to achieve and see obviously I'm going to continue
traveling I'm and joking and but yeah it was awesome so um I hope you enjoyed
this happy ending to the video and look forward to more videos Mexican sit
you know I'll catch you later once again