Hello Tangerineys! We are back in Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo. We Fueled up with
a nice breakfast before our adventures today and so now that we both have
pretty significant food babies, what are we doing? It's been pretty hot lately so
we want to go back to some cenotes because that water is very refreshing. So
Right off the highway here in Puerto Morelos, you have this Ruta de Los
Cenotes sign and there's a whole bunch of cenotes if you go down this road. There's a
baby cenote in front of the sign.
Uh, something tells me this is not a real cenote.
That is definitely a fake cenote.
So in preparation for our cenote adventures, we don't have any hairspray,
or hair gel, makeup, sunscreen, deodorant, or anything like that, so you should be
lucky you're not here to smell this. I'm just kidding. And it's so windy if we had
put any hair gel or hairspray, it would have blown that right off anyway. [Laughter] I can't
believe we've been in Mexico this long and we've only been to cenotes once. I
can't believe how bright it is, help! Wait, what? What did you say? We've only been to cenotes once.
That's not true. We went twice in Tulum. Oh, okay. So one
was part of a tour though. But like once
on our own. Yeah, we've never - well even then we didn't really go on our own, we
were taken by a cab driver. Yeah that's true. Now, we're taking the old tangerine
mobile and seeing where this blustery day blows us.
Let's ride!
[In a funny accent] Stay on this road for 18 kilometers. 18 kilometers. [Laughter]
Driving on this road reminds me of how thick of a jungle we're living by.
I can't imagine trying
to make a road through here or anything like that. So we are going to Cenote
La Noria. It is about 30 minutes away from Puerto Morelos. Pro tip: turn
your Google Maps on before leaving Puerto Morelos because you'll run out of
service almost instantly when you get on Ruta de Los Cenotes and the
roads here we're amazing! Totally clean, like almost zero potholes, except this
one. Until we get out to the very end and this is a more sketchy jungle-y road.
Suddenly, I wish I had a car with 4-wheel drive. [Laughter]
But, this car has driven on worse so I'm not worried anymore.
Woah!
Like do you remember Tapalpa? Going to the waterfall in Tapalpa.
What a nightmare! [Laughter] That was so scary!
Would you do it again in this car? No, I would walk.
This, I mean, so far I don't
think it's not doable. It isn't too bad.
Hello!
Good afternoon.
La Noria is this way? Yes, this is the entrance.
And we have another entrance over there. Two entrances.
Woah!
The entrance fee is 200 pesos and it includes life jackets.
And Hammocks. It closes at sunset.
Okay, sounds good.
Have you guys visited another cenote?
Others close to Tulum but others close to Puerto Morelos. This is the first. Yes.
Do you have change for 500 pesos? Yes, of course.
Here you go. It you want to use a locker it is number 6. Thank you.
Okay, so we just got to Cenote La Noria, it's
Actually pretty cool once you get back here. Yeah.
They have a lot set up like hammocks over there, tables and chairs, bathrooms.
It's one of the more expensive cenotes around, it's two hundred paces a person.
But that does include lifejackets and they gave us a locker and stuff like
that. So we're gonna go down in here, I don't know how deep this is but we'll
check it out. Well it at least goes from here, stairs
area, to there, jumping area, which I'm maybe, probably not gonna do. Yeah, last
time I tried to jump into a cenote I ended up reshaping my front tooth. [Laughter] Alright, let's
go. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. This is steep!
Oh my gosh! This is the steepest of all of them that we've ever
been to. Yeah and no handrail. There is a rope.
Oh, is that what that's for? Yeah. So you just rappel.
Down here. Holy crap, it keeps going!
Oh my gosh! Woah, that is some blue water!
This is actually kind of scary. I see fish in here.
Fishes? Yeah, and maybe some crocodiles.
Wait, what?!? Jordan! Don't say that.
Oh shit! Oh my gosh! Wh my gosh there's bats. Okay.
[Laughter] It's flying really close, I don't like it!
Babe, I'm leaving. [Laughter]
Alright, so um, I'm just
Gonna sit here on the step here and hope that I don't get attacked by a bat. I
mean from this angle it looks pretty cool. I should probably go down more. One
more step, that's it. Lots of bats and lots of fish. How do the fish get in here?
I'm serious. That's a good question.
Oh wow! You know what we are Jordan? What are we?
Bat shit crazy to be down here with all of these bats. Oh my gosh, there's probably
More everywhere. I don't like this at all!
[Maddie screams]
[Laughter] It flew right here, Jordan. It's coming to get the mosquitoes.
To the other entrance? Are there going to be less bats? [Laughter]
Oh gosh, that's a jumping platform?
So this is the old wooden man that blesses you before you die,
by jumping. Oh heck no! Stay behind the safety rope.
[Laughter] Oh jeez.
You ready? Are you gonna jump? I'm going down the stairs. I don't like this
babe, I'm scared of heights. Oh, they're making noises.
This is so steep! Okay, maybe I should go down
backwards? I do remember reading in some reviews
that if you like bats, this is really cool. But one guy's wife was freaked out by
them and I feel like that's me right now.
So I'll be honest this is one of the
coolest cenotes we've seen. I mean it's like total cave status, there's a little
bit of light coming in. The water is really blue and pretty. We haven't even
been in the water yet. I'm bringing the bird in, [Laughter] attached to this zipline rope.
He's not moving, what kind of bird... [Maddie screams] Oh my gosh!
[Laughter]
That's a rope. It's wet though, it touched my foot.
Is there like a nest or something? Why isn't
he moving? Señor, señor.
He's not moving. This is my rope. [Maddie screams]
[Music]
The epitome of graceful.
[Music]
I'm alive!
So what'd you think of that?
Well I know it wasn't your favorite but I actually
thought it was pretty fun like once the other group showed up there was like a
lot more energy and people swimming around. Yeah, that was cool.
I thought it was cool they had like a tiny zipline set up and a swing and
like ropes. And I thought that was a pretty dynamic, like fun cenote to
visit. And this would be a great one of to make like a day out of it because
they have all the hammocks, tables and chairs, and lounge chairs even, so like it
would be cool - We didn't do this, but it would be cool to go like earlier in the
morning, bring a picnic lunch, maybe some drinks or whatever, and just yeah hang
out for the day. So I'm really glad I jumped off there because once I did it
it was a lot of fun. But the first time, when I was trying to go... I'm
not afraid of heights, first of all, but my arms, I could feel them going numb and
getting tingly like I was that scared to jump off of there. And then there were a
couple of times that I went to go and my body just,
My muscles were like nope we're not going anywhere, nope!
And it was happening to everyone who was jumping off. Every single person. It's like weirdly
your body is telling you "This seems dangerous, don't do it!"
But I'm glad I did, it was a lot of fun! I'd do it again now.
One difference I noticed between this one and the ones we went to in the Tulum
area, there in Tulum, they made you shower first.
And here they didn't, and it didn't say anything like "Don't wear these kinds of
products in the cenote" or anything like that. And because of that, you could tell
there was like a layer of film or something on top of the water.
Yeah. Which is kind of disappointing. Because, we
didn't mention this, but wearing sunscreen,
Perfume, and like lotions. Different things like that, it damages the
ecosystem in there. So yeah, then you'll get that film on the top, the water
becomes less clear. That's why we do our part and stink up the joint by not
wearing deodorant and stuff like that so they don't get that way. Oh, this road is bumpy!
[In a British accent] Okay, so we just popped home really quick, just popped on in the house to get some clothes on.
When did you develop an accent? Apparently right now. [Laughter] And now we're back in
Puerto Morelos, so we're near Centro, we're on the beach
Side, and we're meeting up with a very special friend of ours. This girl is
super awesome, you may have heard of her. We're gonna show you in a second. We're
here at one of our favorite restaurants called La Sirena with My Trish Advisor
Also known as Trish or Trisha. So you've been living in Puerto Morelos now for
Almost four years? Yeah, almost four years. Awesome!
I drove here. Well I drove like you
guys but I did it a lot faster. So I drove from Tijuana to here in about 16
days, which is very fast. Yeah. Are you from Tijuana?
No. [Laughter] Tijuana Mama. No, I'm originally from Iowa. Sioux City, Iowa if you've ever
heard of it. Long story short cuz I'm really good at making long stories
longer is, I went to Tijuana and I asked a few friends to go with me and
everybody said no. Like "It's too dangerous, no we can't." Yes
I was scared myself, really scared. But I was really curious and I realized
Unlike the media had shown me, that I had a great time in Tijuana. So it kind of
started there, and just like you guys kind of started traveling through Mexico
realizing it was a different experience altogether. Yeah, so Trisha has a
pretty sizable presence on Facebook and helps people travel here and knows a lot
more about hotels and vacation rentals than we do. And good places to eat, and
where to stay, like that's your thing: Where to eat, where to stay,
Where to play in this area? Yes! That's kind of the idea because what happened, the
back story of this is once I got here then I saw a lot of negative media and I did
a couple of videos that were like "listen, you're right
Mexico is dangerous, but so was the rest of the world." Yeah. You know, there was...
Just different dangers. Yes, and it also depends who you surround yourself with.
So now, yeah, it's where to eat, stay, and play. I try to find local places that
are unique, and fun, and safe. So now I can share my experience, just like you guys
are doing. You're encouraging people to travel to Mexico and know Mexico from
your perspective. But yeah, they're awesome! I'm so, so glad that they're
sitting here with me and even talking to me because I love what they do. Hey, I mean, same to you!
Big fans, big fans! [Laughter] But besides all this
Trish is just an awesome human being. So as is always the case when we get
together with friends, we have all these grand ideas for Mexico domination. Mexico
domination! But now as you can see, it is pitch black outside so that is going to
be part two of can during travels plus My Trish Advisor! It is the next day and
we're in Cancun right now at this restaurant called Las 3 Puertas.
We actually came here because we were looking for nutritional yeast which is
something that's hard to find in the US. Fortunately, I was able to just
Google "Nutritional yeast Cancun" and this came up and we found it here.
Although it's quite a bit more expensive than it is in the States.
What else do we have going on? We're super excited to tell you guys that
we'll be going to another spanish-speaking country soon, and where
are we going? Lima, Peru. Why Peru? Well we wanted to visit
some other spanish-speaking countries and the cheap flights just happened to
take us to Lima, so that's where we're headed. We may also have even more
travel plans coming up that were not totally anticipated besides another, our
second spanish-speaking country that we will be visiting this year. To be
Announced soon. We might be coming back to the US via
car, which in our Phoenix video, we said was never going to happen because it's
like at least according to Google Maps 45 hours, more likely a 60-hour ordeal.
But when we came back from our trip to Phoenix we had to get the car
maintenance done, so we went to the Toyota Cancun dealership and
unfortunately they said the battery is just about to go bad. Thankfully not the
hybrid battery the other like normal of car battery. The start-the-car battery.
Yeah, the start-the-car battery, that's the technical term for it. Well
unfortunately, they don't have that type of a battery here, or at least one that
would fit my car, because according to the dealership, Mexico is a few years
behind on this car's technology. So we've looked into other options we asked you
guys on Facebook if anyone might be driving down because it just seems
pretty risky to drive a car with a battery that's about to go bad
60 hours across the country for a new one. Unfortunately, we can't fly with it
because car batteries are prohibited, so we can't bring one back in our luggage.
And you need special permits to have it mailed to you which from what
we gather, the dealership doesn't have. They told us to try Belize, try Guatemala
And also that just doesn't seem like a very productive - just going
Knocking on doors, country to country, to try to find this battery. [Laughter] So that might be taking
us back to Phoenix via ground transportation in the tangerine mobile.
It's pretty frustrating that we can't take it to a Toyota dealership though
and have them replace a battery. Yeah. It seems like something that
would be pretty simple but I guess the positive negative charges are reversed,
The batteries are a different size from what they have. We asked if they could
order it and they said no. So we're not really sure what to do with it.
What we're thinking could be kind of cool though is if we have to make this
super long road trip across Mexico is potentially letting you guys help us out
with which route we should take, because there are a few. And some of them are
significantly longer than others but I think there's about three options we
could take. So if that does happen, check on our Facebook and we'll just make it
Facebook. Check on Facebook to help us pick that route.
Thank you.
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[Laughter] I saw you do that last time. [Karate noises]
It's too much fun! Do us your best gonging motion.
What would you do to gong the bell.
Mine would be more like a - what would mine be?
You guys!! [Laughter] Mine would be like
[Bell Ringing] GONG that bell!
I like high fives, so I'd be like GONG that bell! [Laughter]
Okay, I tried, I tried. [Laughter] Well you know what to do! [Laughter]
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