welcome to the Mexican state of Tlaxcala, I am in one of the many pine forests that
are in this area. I mean when you think of Mexico you think of
beaches and palm trees and not necessarily this but if you go to the
central area around Mexico State, there's a lot of these beautiful forests
with tall pines and extremely humid, if we look around you can see so much moss
and lichen on the trees and on the ground. This makes it ideal for a lot of
species; mushrooms here for example are everywhere, and also there's one
particular species of Firefly that is in love with this region. It's found only
here at this altitude we're almost 3,000 meters above sea level and here it is
always wet, always raining.
All right party people, it is almost Showtime. You can see the
Sun is starting to set, it is starting to get dark and the show time tonight and
every night it's only really one hour from 8:30 to 9:30 sharp. Surrounding me
are those oyamel trees we talked about and this story might sound a little bit
similar to something we filmed earlier this year.
So butterflies and fireflies despite having the same name fly and neither one
actually being flies have a very different story, they both love the oyamel
tree, they both show up for one month a year, but with butterflies they migrate
all the way from Canada, United States to one particular forest. Fireflies also
found one particular forest but actually they're here all year round. The Firefly
lifecycle is super cool. They live for two years, one month of those two years
is spent as a flying free flashy adult, and 20 months is spent in the dirt as a
larva. I don't know really what to expect tonight. All I know is the group
waiting for me in the lodge and I said: "Hold on a second I have to go yell to
myself in the woods as youtubers do", so I'm gonna meet them now and I tried to
set expectations but there were some amazing photos of this place not much
for video so I'm excited to share. They're excited too! -Hola!... All right, it's game
time; here's the crew: we've got tourism, we've got "el presidente", we've got
this people from TV, and what time is it? Let me check, let me check... 8:05 and you can see
these little Boop of light, it's almost like your eyes are playing tricks on you.
Look you can see them one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, there's already
maybe 30 or 40 just in this one little screen. Just little twinkles they only
shine for maybe half a second. Phone says 8:20... Oh my God! Look at this.
So if you look off into the distance, you can see some fireflies are flying really
high and some are very low, and actually it's super cool the reason why fireflies
are beetles and you think of the beetles you know they have two sets of wings.
Okay... speaking of beetles, you can see the hard
outer shell it's like a rock and on the very back lightning you can see he has
two wings that he's poorly tucked away underneath; so this is a characteristic
about beetles. Wow... The females in fireflies are weird, they
do not have that outer shell that helps them fly. The male's have both, so the
females stay very close to the ground they can't fly very well at all; the
males are the ones who fly up and they need to show down towards the female.
Look at them they think the microphone is a Firefly look on the camera, hay como
dos tres cuatro... because this light would be like a female, right? -Yeah
-Because the females go on the ground and so these are all the males thinking this
is a giant female Firefly.
It's getting to be more and more by the second... Oh man! I'm gonna get my
camera gear ready this is supposed to be one of the coolest shows in the planet
and very few people have seen it outside of Mexico
okay, hold on.
I don't really have words right now, this is one of the most incredible things I've seen, I've been in
a lot of places, 50 countries I've seen a lot of things, and what this Firefly
show is one of the most amazing things on this planet. So amazing how
they all synchronize, all the males trying to compete with each other; I
can't believe this happens on planet Earth.
The rain! Tonight Show was cut a little bit short. it's only 8:45pm fireflies don't
like the rain we've gotta pack it in, it was, it was insane. You guys saw it. I was
speechless. I couldn't believe the show we saw tonight I'll take a short show
over no show. Oh my God!... Corre, corre!... Qué loco!
Amigos I still think the camera is a little bit wet, I see some fog in there. That rain
caught us by surprise it was like a little bit of thunder and all of a
sudden just pshhhh! I've been in the jungles of the Amazon and I have never seen rain
like that not even a rain forest but allows the fireflies to be here that
crazy insane humidity so I hope you enjoyed it for me it was one of the
coolest experiences I've had traveling and that's saying a lot.
If you're ever near the state of Mexico or Tlaxcala in the summer, July, August;
you've got to make sure to check out the fireflies it was incredible.
Here, if you listen there is a Mexican family partying beside me I think they
enjoyed the show too; - it's like cumbia laughter and music, and I'm here by
myself enjoying this nice romantic fire they built me here at the Eco-Lodge
Piedra Canteada which if you're gonna come here, this
place is awesome, it's beautiful and there is not even internet connection. I kind of
like that sometimes. Experiences over possessions, Kick the grind guys, sleep
tight and I'll catch you next video. Peace.