good day first world travellers and welcome back to Mexico City today I am in the
center of the city exploring probably the most popular tourist area that's the
central historical district behind me is just one example of the fantastic
architecture you can find in Mexico see so let's take a look around
is the Metropolitan Cathedral how awesome does that look I'm in the
Zocalo area which is basic the main square in the middle of Mexico city
it's actually one of the largest city squares in the world is totally awesome
we've got the big massive Mexican flag up there there is some kind of event
being organized at the moment so I can't actually go onto the square
but still even when it's not happening it's full of tourists full of people
walking about it's brilliant and you've got all the buildings all around you
various buildings cathedrals palaces museums universities etc it's awesome so
I think we're going to go have a look in the Metropolitan Cathedral now what you
say let's go
oh I'm a bit blinded by the light now i've come outside so yeah the Cathedral is very
impressive very grand and you might know from my previous videos I actually like
cathedrals I'm being honest about that they're very impressive I love the
architecture how the roofs are so high ceilings I don't know what they call them in
cathedrals the general decoration is very impressive very similar to a lot of
European cathedrals I think for example one I saw in Naples last year okay I
just take a little break outside the Cathedral this area might not seem like
much there's a little seating area that sort of thing but you've got all these
wonderful colorful buildings behind me which is a really common thing in Mexico
City which I love you have street vendor selling crisps and drinks you have
people shining shoes and quite often you have a street performances as well with
people in traditional costumes which is wonderful and over there it's like a
grate above the subway and this is one thing that I don't often experience in a
lot of cities you actually hear the trains going underneath which is amazing
and over there is the National Palace so the palace seems to be closed for
visitors today typical I will put some pictures of it over the top just so you
know what it's like but one thing I will say is that when you come to Mexico City
there are museums everywhere literally museums of architecture museums of
culture museums of everything so I would advise maybe spending a couple of days
looking all the museums if that's what you're into because it's just not
possible to see the amount of museums that Mexico City has to offer in one go
and another thing that's closed for the day fantastic is what's in front of me
so as you can see here here are some ruins or an excavation in the middle of
Mexico City and if you go through the Kolo subway station there is a like a
display with what Mexico City used to look like back in the day so I'm talking
about 1300 1500 you know there's so much history in Mexico City in terms of
excavation and ruins and what Mexico City used to be like so if you're
interested in that sort of thing again this is a great place to come hopefully
when it's open why one of the things about tourism in let's go see at least
historical center district area is that many of the signs are just in Spanish so
you will spend lot your time using google translate things like this
behind me you've got these sort of peep holes into underground which show an
excavation ruins from in this case the 1400s this is Republica de
Argentine as you can see over there so yeah and one thing I just want to say
actually about Mexico City compared to a lot of cities that I've been to you may
have noticed in this video already that a lot of people are waving you're saying
hello that's great I love it and you know compared to when I was in China and
you know people just walk into me because they can't see me so once again
good on you Mexico for getting involved and as you can see from this helpful
sign there are millions of cathedrals churches museums
you could spend literally a week here exploring all of them unfortunately I
cannot get all of them in this video so you take my word for it or maybe come to
Mexico City yourself about that now earlier I mentioned Naples in Italy
and if you've been to a lot of European cities like that you will notice the
similarities obviously because of the Spanish influence in Mexico in terms of
the architecture the colorful buildings but also it turns with the shopping so
if you walk a bit further out the historical center you come across all
these little streets with market sellers if you like small little shops
potentially knockoff goods I did buy some headphones the other day which
broke in about five minutes yeah and also food so I think we might end this
video in the historical center of Mexico City by having some food which could
result in food poisoning or maybe not wish me luck
okay I'm just on my way to food but I just want to point something out on the
way there personally in terms of tours I'm not a sort of person that does
tours as I'm traveling for a long time I'm not just on the holiday but if you
are on a holiday and you want to see things in an organized manner there are
plenty of tours available from exerc so behind me you can see those buses so
they're like the city hop on hop off buses did you get everywhere we can go
to places like Puebla Cholula which I believe the world's largest pyramids
apparently according to Wikipedia Teotiuachan and pyramids volcanoes amazing
and it's most of them are basically 650 peso for adults 500 for children so to
be honest with you particularly if you are a Western are from Western countries
it's affordable it's inexpensive so here's a bit of behind the scenes action
right here go pro on the bollard just been talking to a little Spanish kids
very fascinated by the GoPro so yeah time-lapse time so I'm going to
somewhere to eat at last I came here the other day I'm hungry now one thing to
know about food in Mexico and drink I'm going to speak from personal experience
and I have just recovered from two weeks of violent severe diarrhea nothing
against Mexico I love Mexican food but you've gotta be careful in terms of
drinking the water don't drink the water get bottled water you can get these
massive things of sweaty liters of water for 40 pesos which is awesome so just be
careful so I'm now gonna risk my life just for you I hope you appreciate it
so as you can see behind me this place does everything from quesadillas and
tortas tostadas except try everything
Mexican food is right next to this church over here and there we go so I
will put down below where this place is if you're interested in trying some
authentic Mexican food
so I have Gorditas which Google Translate world to translate to chubby
girl actually it's not a chubby girl it's more like a quesadilla kind of
thing so bready cheesy tomatoey with some picante
beautiful and I had this the other day and it was literally mind blowing
because you know yeah when you think of Mexican food that you make at home in
your own country you normally think of like chuck a load of mozzarella in it
which is not Mexican food so you do have that kind of melty cheese there I don't
know what kind of cheese it is but you also have that cheese which is very
common I actually bought some from the supermarket the other day to make my own
tostadas absolutely beautiful but enough talking
more eating so I'm not being funny about that was absolute heaven
the plate is empty just about cheese tomato onions green things but I don't
know what's in it but I don't care I'm not one of them foodies that is bothered
actually i'm not even a foodie but all in all heaven and you know I would risk the
risk of food poisoning because mexican food is literally the best in
the world with Italian okay so after my little bit of food I am full
up this is why I'm not a foodie because even the smallest amount of food fills
my tiny stomach up so anyway that's this level look around the central historical
district at Mexico City over where the hope you have enjoyed having a look
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