What's up Manderinitas! What's up Tangerineys! So if you're new to our
channel, I'm Maddie, I'm Jordan, and we are Tangerine Travels.
Just missing our trusty mascot Laska, who is currently at home. Today, we're going to talk
A little bit in Spanish, but don't worry, we're going to put subtitles in
English for everything if you don't understand Spanish.
You guys have been asking for us to
do a video in Spanish. Well, we're gonna do a little mix today.
Yes, I believe. Of course! Oh my gosh! We are walking
to a cactus garden. Cactuses? Yeah, we're going to a cactus
garden nearby. Don't really know what to expect.
Probably a lot of cacti.
There's probably going to be a point to this. [Laughter] Cactus pun.
Or perhaps, many points.
Last night, someone in the comments asked us.
Are there a lot of mosquitoes in Lake Chapala and Ajijic?
We have differing opinions on this because I
grew up in Minnesota, land of mosquitoes.
So here is nothing compared to there!
But, Maddie, she spent her whole life living in Arizona, where there's hardly any
bugs at al. So pretty much anything is a lot!
That's not fair! There's mosquitoes,
rattlesnakes, scorpions. Rattlesnakes aren't bugs.
No, but there's lots of dangerous things
And bugs. He acts like Arizona is just like barren desert with nothing. So how
are the mosquitos here? In my opinion, not that bad, this year. But we're told from
people who live here, they are much worse some other years than they have
been this year. But regardless of how bad they are, you do have to be careful with
them. Because it's not too uncommon for people to get dengue fever here, and
that's something that shouldn't be taken lightly.
This street that we are on.
Is called El Campo. It runs along the highway.
It's not called El Campo. It's called Ocampo.
Oh damnit. It's called Ocampo.
It runs along the highway.
The main street. [Laughter]
The main street. The main street in Ajijic.
There's a lot of shade. And butterflies.
It's more calm than the highway.
Jordan's laughing at me. What the? I am not laughing at you! Yes you are! I'm smiling because I
like your Spanish progress. Oh my gosh. So we're now here in front of this cactus
garden. What language is that? We are here in front of the Vivero cactus biosphere.
So we just walked in here and looking around. This
Is way more diverse than I thought it was going to be. I thought this was gonna
be pretty lame, to be honest. But it's actually tons of different species of
cacti and it's pretty cool. There's no entry fee or anything, it's completely
free. What do you think? Very pretty. We need to explore!
This guy is super interesting! I've never seen a cactus like this before, and trust
me, I've seen a lot of cactuses growing up and living in Arizona my whole life.
Jordan: Cacti. Maddie: Cactuseseses.
We got to the back of this place and it turns out they do sell cacti.
From around 24 pesos to 200. Maybe
more for like the extra big ones. We weren't allowed to take any video in there, but
there is some damn cute little cacti, oh my gosh!
And I asked if this was a government project before I actually saw that they sold something. And they said no
it's private. Mm-Hmm. And they've been here for about 20 years.
But this is a pretty cool place! I mean it's small, but there's a
lot of cacti crammed in here, and I think it's kind of cool that there's - there's
varieties in here that I've never seen, being that I lived in a place that's like
cacti galore. [Laughter] We walked here but if you're looking to come here from Ajijic,
It's probably about a five minute drive. You can take the Carratera west from
Ajijic. You'll see a big sign of the road.
Right now, we are stopping into a cemetery in Ajijic. Which is actually
pretty close to where we're staying. And it's so different than in the u.s.
Because, for the most part, you have maybe like a really fancy one would have like
a tall headstone. In the US. In the US. Or a statue.
Whereas here, death is much more celebrated. It's not as, I don't know how
would you, what do you, how would you think of the differences between the
u.s. and Mexico? People really avoid the topic in the US.
Yeah. Whereas here, it's much more open. I mean there's a whole
holiday about it. Would you call it a holiday? A celebration? I don't mean to
be disrespectful. This is kind of like a weird topic, because in the u.s. that's
how it is. Like people don't celebrate it, it's like a scary thing. Death is scary
And we even feel a little weird filming here. We were just talking about it, like would it
be disrespectful? Yeah. I might feel like that in the US but so many people
hHave asked us to make a video in Guadalajara. In Panteon de Belen.
In Guadalajara.
So you guys, I hope this is okay we're walking around here. But it is really
interesting to see like the extensiveness that people put into
someone's burial. And it's colorful, there's lots of art. Which is just such
a huge difference to how it is in the u.s.
Yeah, I think death in the u.s. is a
little bit more taboo. You don't really talk about it, it's much more open here.
And there's certainly no celebration of it one time of year, for what is it? Three
days? I'm really excited to experience that in Mexico, because I got to do that
one time, a Dia de los Muertos, and that was in Tucson, Arizona. So it was like a
really big, fun, interesting! Like parade and people paint their faces. But I'm
sure that's like 10 times cooler, just like a really memorable experience in Mexico.
So there's some that are way bigger than these others. And I'm
wondering if this is for the whole family? I cannot believe how elaborate
some of these are with flowers and designs on them. So to get through here
you have to go like, [Motioning how you have to walk through the cemetary.] Back up this way.
It's so big! The more we walk, the more there is. I can't, I can
hardly believe this. Some grass is perfectly maintained, and cut, and there's
new plants. And then there's other ones, like this behind me, which is pretty much
overgrown. So it seems like the families are all responsible for taking care of
them themselves. Which I think is maybe a little bit different than US cemeteries,
Where you could see across the whole thing. The grass will be all cut and sort
of just - people come and leave flowers if they want to. Yeah.
We are here at restaurante
Don Perro. I'm just kidding. That's what Jordan called in the last video.
About this place, we included it. It's actually Restaurante Don Pedro. [Laughter]
And right now we're enjoying a promotion they have going on, where if you make a
reservation ahead of time, you are able to order a lunch or dinner entree, and
get free drinks included. On Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, yes.
I ordered a white wine
Jordan got a margarita, and they just brought us out this house tequila, which
is super super good! I do not need any shots!
[Laughter] I never need shots. [Laughter]
Maybe you'll be able to say "Restaurante Don
Pedro" instead of calling it a dog restaurant!
[Laughter] That was totally
unintended last time. [Laughter] I think you just have problems with your
D-R. Well, yeah. I do, and sometimes I feel like I roll my Rs too much. And other
times it's not enough. I don't know, I still struggle with it. My tongue still needs
to get used to saying certain words. Restaurante Don Pedro. Pedro. [Jordan struggling to pronounce the name] Don
Perro. I'm just going with it. [Laughter] This is a 120 pesos. I
think it's unlimited free drinks on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with
reservations. Really good deal, highly recommend this place!
And it includes beans and rice
as well. They're really good so far about allergies. Uh-huh. This is my dish, it's
Pollo Romano. So my chicken dish was either 120 or 125, and it also includes
two sides. I just had to only get the salad because the other options included
onion. But yeah, really big portion of chicken! Okay, so as soon as I tried a
bite of that, I didn't turn the camera on again because I just stuffed my face. But
I thought the peacock garden was my favorite chicken that I'd ever tried in
Mexico. But I think that place is probably my new favorite restaurant. And
also their house tequila is super good! I still, I can't put my finger on like the
fruity floral-ness that the tequila has, but I really like it! Yeah, it's good! That
place seems to be pretty underrated in my opinion. I
think so too! Like it's normally not very busy but man, I think that's place should be
packed on Tuesdays and Thursdays! Yeah, I don't know why it's not busy! There's a thing
that people have said to us before and that I would agree with to this point.
You can tell how good a restaurant is by how many people are there. And the
more locals you see there, the better it probably is. Maybe it's because, like
people don't know about the promotion or something? Because I feel like, if that was a
120 or 125 pesos, plus drinks. I mean
that seems like a pretty reasonable price! Heck yeah, I'd go back there! Yes. Recommend.
Two thumbs up! And it's right across the street from the brew house.
Two thumbs up. Oh, my thumb is the other thumb. [Laughter]
I'm holding a camera with my other thumb.
We always try to feed the street dogs.
So the last thing I forgot to mention about that restaurant, is that we tasted this butter
that was there. Some of you guys might know that I wasn't able to have dairy for
a really long time because it gave me migraines. So when I tasted this butter, I
was like "Oh my gosh! This is the closest I've ever tasted to butter that I had
when I was really, really little." And something that I might have even had
like from a farm or something with no food miles whatsoever. It was so good, so
natural, it tasted just like pure butter. So we had to ask where it was from, and I
believe I remember he said Michoacán, which is a state south of here. And he
said that was the closest that they were able to find this cremeria natural
butter. You can't buy it here in Ajijic. We asked for some to go. Yeah, we asked for
some to go. That makes me think that a lot of other ingredients in this
restaurant we're really natural as well. So yeah multiple reasons why we'll definitely be going back there!
So we switched
to a Mexican cellphone provider a little while back. And we thought it'd be easy
to like recharge every month online, but apparently it's pretty difficult with foreign
cards. Or via the app, people recommended that a lot. Oh yeah, that too.
But it just kept declining the cards and it was a huge
pain in the butt. So right now, we're going into a Telcel authorized retailer.
They're all over the place, so we're hoping to get our phones recharged. By
the way, curious to know if you guys have any solutions for spam calling? Because
this hasn't happened to Jordan at all, but for me, it's like two dozen or three
dozen times a day I have spam numbers calling me. I block the call immediately. It
still continues to happen. But if you guys have any advice for this, maybe like
a number that you can call. I don't know if this happens to other people? Or
maybe somehow I just got the most popular person in Mexico's phone number?
Anyway, we're going into Telcel now!
I'd like a recharge of 300.
[Employee] We don't have it right now.
I didn't know you could run out, because I
thought this was all digital. But let's go in the next one.
We'd like a recharge, please.
Telcel? Telcel, yes.
Of 300 (pesos)? Paquete?
Yes, it seems right. If you could look again to verify (the phone number)?
Yes. This is the first one. It will be 300 pesos.
And the other number as well, please.
Let me go check because I don't have more than 94 (pesos)
What I think is going on
Right now, is they only have a certain amount of credit. They like ran out
and they only have 94 pesos left in credit, and she has to go ask if
like she can recharge it or something.
I don't have anymore. She doesn't have anymore either.
Hello. I need a Telcel recharge. Do you have that here?
Telcel? Yes. How much?
The 300 plan.
A recharge of 300 pesos. The phone number?
Below, the 333 (number)
300 (pesos)
Do we need to do anything else or is that all?
Or that's all? That's all. You're good to go! (We got a confirmation text)
Alright, that was simple. Wow. OXXO is the way to go!
In the u.s. doing something the manual way, as in going into a store, or doing it
not online. Let's cross the street. Is usually seen as the difficult way to do it. And usually you
can save a lot of time by doing it online, not doing it over the phone. But
in this case, what would you say about this experience? That was
so easy! Going into OXXO. It was way more complicated going into like the
Telcel authorized retailer or whatever. Or doing it online. But we just
asked for "Una recarga de Telcel" which is like a Telcel recharge.
Package. The package for 300 pesos. And then they ask for the phone number, they
entered it twice into the computer. Bada-bing. Bada-boom! Recharged. And you
would think "Oh man, you have to go into a Telcel store, what a drag!" But you
would be hard-pressed to throw a rock and not hit an OXXO in Mexico. So yeah,
that was super easy! I honestly think, don't bother doing it
online unless they update their systems or something like that. Because it's kind
of a pain in the patootie. I mean, maybe you have a Mexican bank or something. Maybe, yeah, I
don't know. Maybe for us it's more complicated, or maybe we're just idiots, I
don't know. But going to the store was not that hard! I'd recommend that
over doing it online. So we've now had Telcel for
approximately, what is it? Three or four months? I'll say a few because then I'm
not wrong. [Laughter] Looking back, I think we really wish that we had done it sooner.
It's way cheaper than having t-mobile which was 50 US dollars for each of us
per month. And that was the cheapest thing we could find for Mexico. Absolutely! Like coming
from the US. Where it still worked in Mexico. But they eventually kicked us off.
And we wish they did it sooner because we would have saved some money. We have
unlimited for social media like: Instagram, Facebook, whatsapp as well. So
that's really nice! And then 2.5 gigs of data. Unlimited texting and calling. Yeah
so it works really well for us! I don't really think that this is a lower quality plan than
something like t-mobile or Verizon. In fact, t-mobile was usually using Telcel's
towers. If you're curious how it works for us to get a Telcel plan, we did an
entire video for this. As far as like start to finish, what was required, and
how the process went. How easy it was for us doing it in Spanish and things like
that. We'll link to that, right approximately here.
[Laughter] I think there's a fire over there.
(In a southern accent) Lord Jesus there's a fire!
We're just sitting here out on the Ajijic malecon.
I cannot say that word! Malecon. Malecon. We're out
Here on the Ajijic Malecon. It's a gorgeous evening out, sitting by the lake. We just
Wanted to tell all of you guys who watch all of our videos, and leave nice
comments - thank you so much! It means the world to us! We can't believe how many of
you depend on this information and are excited to watch our videos every day.
With the territory of us not being afraid to say, like, get to the negative
side of things. Well, with that comes a lot of hate comments. And just yesterday
probably 25 people told us "get out of Mexico!" "Go back to the US." Yeah and that
was the nicest way they phrased it. Yeah.
When we get so many of those, it really
really helps to have all this positive encouragement. So yeah, at the core of
what we're saying is - thank you for just taking the time to leave nice comments
or provide feedback in a tactful way. By all means disagree with us if you
think we're wrong about something, we encourage that in a respectful way. But
yes, thank you for all the nice comments because, I mean, we get personally
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