right stop there for a second we'll continue with this video proper in a second welcome to
mexico city i'm on my roof with my gas canisters in the background and people's washing behind me
lovely it's about a week later and i wanted to do this video a little bit differently because
you might remember in the last video i was in cordoba which i absolutely loved and i mentioned
in that video around the fact that sometimes our mood can impact how we have a travel experience
can you shut up please plane thanks han that is absolutely true with this Orizaba video as well
so i loved cordoba but i absolutely hated Orizaba and before you jump in the comments and go crazy
at me hear me out basically it wasn't Orizaba's fault it was my fault i'm holding my hand up
because i was in an incredibly bad mood i was irritable i was tired you name it as you will
see throughout this video and i kind of abandoned it halfway through after only doing a couple
of things in this video i'm gonna come back to you a little bit later at the end of the video
after we've gone through what i did film because i didn't want to waste the footage you know
and there is actually something about this suburb which regardless of mood
i do want to talk about so um let's go let's get on with the normal video
hello everyone and welcome to sunday morning i'm so tired i fell asleep on the bus this morning
and as if by magic woke up in Orizaba Veracruz and coincidentally speaking of magic this is a magic
town yes it's another one of mexico's i don't know how many there are there are loads um magic towns
magic town um how magic it is remains to be seen let's explore and try not to fall asleep jesus
come on david wake up you've got four hours before you've got to get on a bus back to mexico city
so let's go there's a teatro lovely i'm in the central square as always statue in the middle
and the kiosk there which i can actually go up on
unlike the one in cordoba in the last video and i love going up on these
of course especially in a magic town because it gives you a nice overview of the center of town
lovely that's the san miguel de archangel with this nice bunting over there i think
there's some um service going on it's sunday morning over there of course you've got the
things where the guys um shine the shoes polish the shoes whatever it's a bit early
so they're not working yet i don't think um it's nice i said it nice and peaceful
and i feel like honest about isn't one of the most frequently visited
problems in mexico i could be wrong but i haven't heard many people talking about it in the past
i love the mosaic patterns up on the domes of the church there was one in cordoba which
i didn't film it was kind of similar also arc angel with similar kind of uh mosaic patterns
on the domes lovely the time is wrong it's not 10 past 11.
right to get in the church i've got to go under one of these corona thingies brilliant
so as you'd expect i couldn't really feel much in there because it is like 10 a.m i
think on a sunday so when people are waiting for a service to begin um
but yeah it's white grand all the usual words you can tell i'm in uh final season david mode
it's a church there's not much more i can say about churches in mexico they are
fantastic splendid wonderful and all those other words but what i want to see is behind me
so this building behind me is the palacio di hierro which i can't pronounce i still
can't do the double r's one day maybe i will it looks slightly out of place right when you think
of you know regular pueblo mexico architecture that's because it was built between 1891 and 94
by gustav eiffel yes you heard that right the guy who designed the eiffel tower um and
the parts were imported from belgium hence the slightly different look shut up it's very posh
isn't it love a good fountain nice fountains here there's a museum oh must be a beer museum
brilliant i think it's like the city hall as well and there's a cafe coffee shop over there um
and yeah it just looks very different didn't it in comparison to
uh usual architecture did i say iron palace i think i did didn't i um yeah so it's all
iron works kind of like an old train station that's what it reminds me of in a way
i'm sorry i'm not in the zone today you know when you have one of those travel days when
you wake up your zip breaks on your bag you realize you didn't bring your hair straight
into your for a weekend away hence my hair looks like this um and i'm not good um but i'm hoping
that after some food and some coffee and also a television i will be back to my usual self
compared to other magic towns it does feel quite large actually i'm looking off into the distance
and seeing all the hills and mountains and when i was flying my drone you can see you know it goes
it spreads out quite far there's churches everywhere and hills as i said residential
buildings what's down here this looks like a sort of pedestrian nice street oh it is with a lion
the weather could get a little ropey today because it's sunny but as you can see we've got
dark clouds looming again that seems to be a very close thing um speaking of veracruz um and Orizaba
this used to be the capital of veracruz and also it means in Nahuatl the place
of pleasing waters whatever that means well that's a nice building
lovely
ah this is what i was looking for i think this is the river walk how pretty you've
got some street heart down there not so much a river more of a stream but look at the uh
scenery in the distance this is nice isn't it um i was gonna say as well as with like everywhere
in mexico there are about a million and one different routes possible routes of where the
name of a place comes from and i've read that there's a connection to jerez de la frontera in
spain i.e settlers from there came here and they used a particular word which was then translated
into Orizaba but also my favorite pueblo mexico is jerez de garcia salinas in zacatecas
um and that also had history with settlers from um that place in spain looking back there it kind of
reminds me of guanacrapo i mean guanajuato yeah i don't really like it there with like the yellowy
bridges with the sort of terracotta things at the top and you know the buildings in the background
there's another yellow bridge up there
birds tweeting river making noise that rivers make it's like a gateway to the mountains
there's an eiffel tower what is this gomez palacio
it seems i've stumbled across the rather touristy part there is a teleferico of
course but it's a bit different in that there are three all together
never seen that before we'll queue up in a little bit uh let's go over this drawbridge
first just for fun huh this is thrilling um you can't walk a bit faster you know
it's not going to collapse there's the teleferico going i'm going to miss the bus at this right
three hours later and i'm across the drawbridge before you start i know there's a botanical
garden i think it's quite new isn't it and also there's a dinosaur park i saw that on the way here
um i haven't got time to go to those places unfortunately oh wow caged animals
i'm sure they're thrilled to be there this place is quite odd you've got crocodiles
you've got deer you've got drawbridges and cable cars it's like everyone's throwing
everything touristy into one space there are a couple of crocodiles over there um turtles
also flamingos but then i saw oh they're fake plastic flamingos um is someone taking the piss
i'm not being funny and i hate to moan i am moaning um but this place is terrible and i
just queued up for the telephony car only for a woman to tell me that you can't buy tickets for
right now you have to get tickets and it's gonna be like four five six pm that's in like six hours
are you being serious um there are only like those three cars on the teleferico so i can understand
why you have to wait so long but really six hours by the way the reason i wanted to do the telephony
call was to get up up that mountain and you can see because one of the highest peaks in the
americas it's a dormant volcano but i understand um the best time to go it's like early morning
um i mean look at the weather even if i did go up there i wouldn't be able to see it trust me
i went up mount Etna in sicily once and didn't see a thing so instead i'm walking down this
river walk oh [ __ ] um slash art walk it's all so cool um i can't see much art yet oh
what's on the wall there there's a map lovely oh there's some yeah the eiffel tower paseo del rio
okay this could salvage the day it's kind of like venice oh [ __ ] there's a waterfall
on the plus side i do see some like cruddy abandoned buildings in the distance and i
wonder what these buildings are here stone and oh [ __ ] i keep falling over concrete
um dude this is the sort of thing i like not fake plastic flamingos
angel
oh poor cat i do like the artwork i've got to admit it's very nice very elaborate and
colorful and vibrant um i don't know where this eiffel tower is though
i'm hoping it might be up here um there are also sculptures and things as you can see there was
a big hand coming out of the earth back there which i forgot to film i found the eiffel tower
what in the name of holy hell is this it doesn't even look like the eiffel tower
i guess it's just like another sculpture as i said i thought it would be something like
like a landmark thing like a bit like in Gomez palacio
or elsewhere in mexico there's even a sign saying eiffel tower as if it's some sort of
posh landmark i'm sorry but it's awful that i can't even sugarcoat it
this place has to be a piss take is this like one of them hidden camera shows now
this is more my style i see crappy old industrial buildings ahead i think i've come to a dead end
i'm taking a little break at Oxxo um my t-shirt just about sums this place up sorry i'm sorry
to anyone that lives here but living here and coming here for a day and two different things
and i think if you're someone that likes touristy areas and fake plastic flamingos
um like i said guanajuato you know somewhere like that this place would be great i'm sure there are
many mexicans who come here with their children um for like a weekend away or a day trip whatever and
it's great because there are plenty of things to do in that respect but for me um in terms of what
i enjoy and what i like out of travel um Orizaba is not for me absolutely not there was so much
more i had planned in this video as well as the teleferico chilietoles a local dish with uh corn
i have officially abandoned this video i went to a couple other places that i had saved in my phone
that they were closed i don't need to justify my negativity in this video despite it being
the fake ass world of travel youtube but i'm going to do that anyway you know a lot of people
come to mexico and film videos endlessly praising everything in mexico including me i've done that
before it's embarrassing it's patronizing and it's cringeworthy you know i know a lot of mexicans
right who watch videos watch my videos for other videos as well but you know they're not stupid yes
they want to see people in mexico and talking about what it's like but they don't want fake
[ __ ] they want the truth right welcome back to the future um so as you can see from this video i
was raging it's a little bit like the oaxaca video from years ago where i just completely lost it
sometimes that happens when you've been on the road for six years not every day is gonna be
fluffy bunnies and unicorns is it as i said in the corner of my video you know if veracruz was
my first day in mexico which is not it's my 21st i would have thought wow this is top tier and yeah i
loved cordoba but with Orizaba i think if that had been my first pueblo omega that i'd ever visited
there would have been no frame of reference nothing for me to compare it to therefore i
would have thought Orizaba was amazing but the thing i did want to say about it which i do
think is kind of valid point and this is kind of backed up by someone i know who lives in arizaba
the tourism aspect it is a little bit tacky and you know there could be i think some things done
to improve it you know that eiffel tower jesus the pink flamingos really as i said you know i
think it's absolutely perfect for a family for children because there are so many activities
but personally given my past experience and the whole comparison issue in mexico i felt as though
i feel as though there are other magic towms which offer a lot more sorry to anyone that lives in
Orizaba but as i said throughout this video you know living somewhere and visiting somewhere are
two different things perhaps i'll go back in the future i probably won't the last thing i did want
to say though was about magic towns as a mexican what's your view on the whole pueblo hacker thing
i've never talked about this because sometimes i feel it's a little bit suspect like why are
certain towns classed as magic towns how do they get into that um state of being called that
how do they meet the criteria you know i know i kind of know how it works but it just feels a bit
suspect how money is thrown at cities small towns rather and they're given this name of
magic town as if it's this you know amazing thing when it's not necessarily always the case there
have been some i've been to in the past which have been a little bit iffy they have that nice central
square but the rest of it is pretty much like an average town polishing a turd so thank you for
watching even though it's been an absolute rage fest and i'll um see you next time by the way it
was my 40th birthday yesterday feliz cumpleanos to me lovely see you soon catch you later