Hello Tangerineys from Puebla City!
Every time we go to a new city in Mexico, no
matter how many we've been to, we show up and there are always things that shock
and surprise us. And it literally does not matter how many videos we've seen, or
research we do, not all good, not all bad, just shocking, and surprising, and
awesome, and that all comes with travel. But we're going to tell you all about
what shocked us in Puebla City today! [Laughter]
So the first thing that shocked us were how many fine dining restaurants there
are in Puebla City, and not only that are there a lot of fine dining restaurants,
but they are adequately priced for the classiness of them. So in Morelia, we were
talking about how reasonably priced the fancy restaurants are. Here, not really
the case. You're going to be paying 250 pesos or more for the
least expensive plate and it just goes up from there. Yeah and I mean comparing
that to US prices, affordable still.
But, for Mexico, and for our budget.
Yeah, we can't eat there. But that leads us into one thing that really shocked us
about this city, and that's how wealthy it seems to be. There seems to be like
maybe lots of industry here, lots of business. We were sitting at a restaurant
and there goes a Lamborghini driving by.
So the next thing that shocked us in a very
very good way is how fast the internet here is in Puebla City! And we noticed at
first, in the Airbnb hotel we're staying, and then later going to cafes and
restaurants where they have public Wi-Fi. It's really fast!
Yeah! Good upload speeds and good download speeds! And in general, what have we seen
in Mexico? The bigger the city, the faster the internet. Of course, that has
its exceptions. But for the most part, like Guadalajara was really fast. What's
another one? [Laughter] Guadalajara was really fast!
Morelia was also
really fast. [Laughter] As we've traveled through Mexico, we've been to a lot of cities now.
And even in small towns, we typically still have fast enough internet to watch
Netflix. That hasn't been the case in a couple towns, but typically it is. Yeah, so you
know, the small towns like San Blas (Nayarit) was pretty slow internet. Ajijic internet
Was constant frustration for us. In our research, we found out that there's
quite a lot of volcanoes around this area and in Puebla. Well as we were
driving in, I kept veering out to this mountain thinking "That looks a lot like
a volcano." And I couldn't tell if there were clouds coming up, or
around it, or whatever. And I was staring at it, staring at it. Jordan's asleep cuz he was
dealing with food poisoning. And finally he wakes up, I'm like "Is that a volcano?"
No, no, we don't think it is. Well, no more than a few seconds later
Kaboom! There's like this plume of giant smoke coming out of Volcán Popocatépetl.
Also known as Popo, I think? [Laughter]
If I didn't pronounce that, I'm really
sorry. But yeah, just a huge plume of smoke. Turns out that happens all the
time. But I have never personally witnessed anything happening with a
volcano before. So I was like "WHAT?!? Do we need to worry about this?"
We mentioned in our last video that when we
Got into the city, we were like"Oh my gosh, I'm not terrified to drive here!"
Like every other big city we've been to in Mexico. Where people are constantly
making psycho maneuvers and stuff throwing us off guard.
But someone commented saying "hey that's
because its laid out on a grid system." And that makes a lot of sense because in
many cities, although most of the cities settled by Spain were a grid around
Centro. Once you get outside of that, it seems like that's not always the case,
And there's streets at lots of angles, perifericos going around the city,
Glorietas. And yeah, roundabouts, and all kinds of crazy stuff happening that
just makes driving really intimidating!
[Laughter] So speaking of the Spanish, from our
research we found out that this is one of the first places of the Spanish
settled and came when they came to Mexico. When we came to Puebla City
something that surprised were how many shoe stores there were! And this reminded
us another place that we traveled which is Madrid, Spain. So if that's the case
that the Spanish came here and brought a lot of influence historically, and
that would explain all the shoe stores. And we don't know why that's such an important
part of culture. But having new, nice shoes is something that's very prevalent
in Spain. And the number of shoe stores in Spain, or in Madrid, was insane! Insane!
It was like every other store. Shoes out the wazoo!
Speaking of Madrid, though. No that I think about it, if someone had just planted us
here, like here in this area. I would be - I was straight up think it was Madrid. Because
it looks that much like it with these walking streets, and all the shopping, and
the buildings, and the layout, and everything. And also speaking of walking
and streets, something that I think I really took for
granted back in the US, was the nice sidewalks and the nice roads. You rarely
hit a (car-destroying) pothole. You rarely had these like "kind of" sidewalks. [Laughter]
But something that's nice about Puebla City is that the sidewalks and the
streets are really nice and well constructed. These are like some super
solid stone, slate, sidewalks and whatnot. And the walking
streets. But be careful, they get slippery!
Oh my gosh! Okay, well... The literal first
day we started walking around Puebla, I went and got myself a shot of espresso
in the morning. And we were walking around, like getting ready to explore, and
I slipped on almost nothing! The sidewalks are just so slippery. In some places.
In some places. And I spilled this espresso all over my white shirt!
It was like Ahhh! So we're not quite done with this
video yet, but if you're liking it so far, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe
to our channel if you haven't already! One thing that we mentioned in the
video that we did like this about Morelia, is the architecture. And we have
to say the same thing here! In so many of these colonial cities in Mexico, there's
just gorgeous architecture, and here it seems to be all over the city! But in
addition to these old buildings, and colonial architecture, you also have a
brand new side of the city, with new construction, and new high-rises, and
whatnot. I think something that personally shocked me about Puebla
City was all the gorgeous tile work! And you often see this on the dome part
of cathedrals, but here it's on so many other buildings, lining the windows, on the
whole side of a building! I think it's so gorgeous! And in addition to the already
beautiful architecture, you also have these tiles, which are just so so pretty!
So totally unrelated, but we're walking along this market here. And what the heck
is this?!? [Laughter] It's like the building's falling down?
Or? I've never seen anything like this in my life.
We did mention the colorful streets and colorful buildings in our last video, but
we thought that was just like an isolated area. It turns out, it's very
very prevalent here! And that adds a lot to the feel of the city. Yeah, I
personally think the more colorful city is, the more joyful it feels, and vibrant. And
that can totally change the vibe of the whole city. And one of the reasons why we
liked Ajijic, for instance. Or Guanajuato. Is that there's so much
extra color, it makes the city pop.
Wow! Jordan's exclamation of choice. [Laughter]
Wow. One more thing that shocked us about Puebla is
how many parks are here, and especially this one in particular. This is called
Zona Histórica de Los Fuertes. Within this gigantic park, we have this
teleferico that we're gonna go on. It's just tram that goes across the park. You
have at least three museums within the park. There's a lake where you can rent
paddle boats. Just so much here, it's unreal. I think we could spend days here
and not see it all. Yeah.
This teleferico being 50 pesos for a roundtrip is actually pretty shocking
compared to the prices of the rest of the city. We had said that the fine
dining restaurants, there are - they're prevalent. And they're pretty pricey in
this city. But, the more we look around, and the more parts of town that we go to,
It's pretty obvious that the whole city is a lot more expensive.
Still not Playa del Carmen expensive, but.
Oh gosh! Oh my gosh!
Okay! I'm awake now! I thought those were gunshots but they're rockets.
That people shoot off. Holy shit. I hope
Medical isn't more expensive, because I think I just had a heart attack!
[Laughter] Oh gosh! So just to
clarify, this is much cheaper than we would expect it to be compared to other
prices in the city. You were thinking how much?
I thought it would be about 200 pesos per person for
roundtrip. Another thing that we found pretty shocking when we came to Puebla
City, was the amount of honking here. And I already hear people in the comments
like "Well, honking is pretty normal in cities."
But I'm talking about the amount
of honking and how long people honk. If someone's blocking an intersection,
people do not hesitate to lay on their horn for 30 seconds to a minute, and I am
not even exaggerating. It is like outrageous! [Laughter]
And I think as a whole in
Mexico, people are not as inclined to honk,
and just give people the space and
be patient. So it is a little bit strange that there's so much honking in the city.
So right now we're at this mirador, looking out over all of Puebla City and we
can see how freaking gigantic this volcano is! Because in comparison there's
some mountains surrounding the city, which are pretty big on their own, but
then when you look at the volcano, which has steam coming out of it right now.
It's still a little terrifying! It's, I don't know, eight times, nine times
the size of these other huge mountains. And this is the highest, or the second
highest peak in Mexico.
Let us know what you think. What do you like about Puebla? We think it's pretty
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