It is a new day here in Mexico City and we are standing in front of Palacio de Bellas Artes. Someone told us
it's the most beautiful building in the city, so we wanted to check it out. I'm inclined to agree.
I don't know if it's the most beautiful because we haven't seen all them yet, but architecturally, the detailing is
fantastic to say the very least.
Inside is an opera house, also a museum.
We're not going to take a tour of that today because honestly, I'm too excited to the Zocalo. (Giggles)
Yeah, this is the second biggest in the world right behind Moscow. So I am super excited to see it as well.
You guys ready?
We're cruising down Calle Madero right now and this is
Madero or Madera? Madero.
Madero Street.
And there are tons of old buildings here with really cool architecture,
tons of people yelling at you, lots of foot traffic (laughs)
And during our trip, we forgot to mention this up to this point but
We have the pleasure of being accompanied
by our good friends from Guadalajara,
Emma and Shania.
Overwhelmed yet? Actually no. Really?
I'm too busy staring at all these pretty buildings (Chuckles). We're almost there!
Oh my gosh!
Oh my goodness! This thing is gigantic! It's freaking huge!
Complemented by the biggest flag of all time.
Oh yeah! (Chuckles)
Get out of here. You're in El centro of centro. Are you sure?
I think that's El Centro of El Centro. That is definitely not in the center.
Are you sure this isn't then? The giant flag? Maybe.
Where are you? El Centro of El Centro! (laughs)
So right behind me, they are doing some aztec cleanings
like cleansing with smoke and stuff,
and our friend Emma is going to do that.
Yeah, I think my soul is pretty dirty
because of Tequila.
(Giggles)
Do you feel better? Cleaner?
Yeah, I think. Maybe if that didn't kill my demons, maybe a lung cancer will. [Laughter]
So rumour has it - this Centro area of Mexico City was built on top of another city.
Actually. I don't think that's a rumour
I think that's true. Very true.
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Mexico and the world. Literally, right next to Centro are these Aztec ruins.
It was 75 (pesos per ticket - $3.90 USD) a person to get in here and 45 (pesos - $2.34 USD) to record.
This is crazy that this is right by the church
My suspicion is
Centro was built by these ruins on purpose but I don't know for sure. Right now we're going into
Templo Mayor (Great Temple). So I'll be honest,
I always wonder with ruins like this, how much of it is a reconstruction,
(Oh, yeah)
especially in a place like this. How many earthquakes have happened since
these ruins existed originally and I think that's totally okay if it's reconstructed
but it just makes me wonder like how many of these walls are the actual original walls? Yeah
We were just in Lima, Peru and there -
What are they? The Inca ruins. But they were actually constructed to withstand earthquakes.
So maybe it's similar here, but it's a totally different construction if that's the case.
Oh yeah, completely different styles.
So here are the ruins:
There's the square and there's the Cathedral, so you can see the proximity here.
This guy looks like he's about to perform like some crazy dance - Don't stop sigue sigue.
(Laughs)
So behind me, there are rows of 240 skulls made out of
concrete, I believe...
Stone! Sorry, stone. And I actually remember seeing something like this in
Ajijic. I think probably they're trying to recreate this at a school there. So
pretty interesting and they all look different. So, I imagine they're modeled after
real people at the time. After seeing this,
what are your favourite ruins that we've seen in Mexico?
I think still Cobá. Mine remain Cobá.
Yeah, that experience is way too cool -
Just biking through the jungle, and you get to hike up and see over the top of the treetops. Yeah, that was amazing.
It's interesting to see the differences between different civilizations in different places
So, I mean it's not like to discount this or any other ones, but I did like those - Coba.
Included in the price of the entry is the entrance into this museum that comes
after you go through the ruins. So we're checking that out now.
So we're walking out of these ruins right now.
And we're looking at all these buildings over here and
most of them are leaning, which is super weird to see. I imagine it's from earthquakes
but it looks a whole lot like the buildings in Amsterdam look, on the water. They're almost all leaning in different directions.
Something I find super interesting about Mexico City is that when we look up directions to a place,
usually, it would take 5 minutes to drive or 30 minutes to walk. Here
it's like, it takes 30 minutes to drive there or 15 minutes to walk or sometimes there about. You mean the other way around?
15 minutes to drive 30 minutes to walk. No, no because it's traffic. I have not seen it where it...
Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating
a little bit, but
the point I'm getting at is like, with the traffic you could almost walk places faster.
The amount of time you'd be waiting for the Uber.
Yeah, I think it's crazy. We're going somewhere right now where the directions said 9 minutes to walk and 7 minutes to drive.
Giggles.
So our feet and legs were getting really tired. We decided to hop down a random street and find the place
Pasaguero and I ordered this, what the heck is it called? "Zapoteco"
which is mezcal, Kahlúa, espresso and
whipped cream. Looks
dangerous and delicious, but I'm tired and I also want to drink, so cheers!
(Chuckles)
Ooo, Ohh!!
I don't know how I feel about this (Laughs).
There was a promotion for 2 for 1 margaritas, so I got 2 of them for me!
This was a lot of salt, huh?
Yes, there is a lot of salt.
(Spanish): The people told us that some Mexico City food
that we need to try is "Gorditas"
So...we are going to try these.
Before the rain. Quick! Quick!
So, yeah, we've been sitting at a restaurant across away from this place.
We've seen it busy for like the last three hours. That's how you know it's really good street food.
So we're going to try a gordita.
(Spanish): Excuse me! I need help.
Let's see, tell me.
What should I try?
A gordita with cheese, with Guisado,
Huarache? (Fried corn dough base with beans and sauces)
with "Guisado" again.
Okay... I say that
I see "Chicharron" there. The Gorditas with Chicharron are very good and very famous, so...
With Chicharron? Where is Chicharron?
Farther below, look.
Chicharron.
Ahh. Or shredded meat.
Chicharrón or Shredded meat.
Desebrada? Dehydrated? No, desebrada means shredded. Oh, okay.
Shredded beef with Cheese, please.
Shredding meat. Without onion?
No onion? It's Tinga (meat prepared with tomato and onion)
It has onion?
It has onion in it. Steak is okay.
This is pure corn? Yes.
With Chicharrón (Probably Pork Rind) With Chicharrón, okay.
(Making a Spanish/English joke) [Laughter]
To eat here or to go?
For here or to go? To go, please
One Quesadilla...it/he isn't Mexican (inside joke, maybe)
(Laughter)
So this was 28 pesos ($1.46 USD). Why don't you try it?
A Gordita, giant Taco.
[Laughter]
Oh my God! (Laughter)
[Laughter]
5 hours later...
I took way to big of bite! [Laughter]
Napkins?
There aren't any napkins. Oh no! It's good!
Okay, I'm going to try.
What do you think?
For 28 pesos, tons of food, it's good,
but I'm not overly like "Oh
this is amazing", but we haven't put the sauce on. Beware!
Mexico City, it's well known to have very spicy salsas. Oh good.
Yeah, oh good. As if the rest of Mexico wasn't spicy enough for me.
That was actually super good,
we put the salsa on there. My mouth is on fire now, but pretty flavorful to be honest.
I just took way too big of a bite to begin with.
Like an embarrassingly large bite. I don't know what I was doing.
If we were going to do a $10 challenge here.
We have to go there. So, we ordered an Uber and I think it's taken about 25
maybe 30 minutes for him to show up just because he got stuck behind some
(way longer than other CDMX Ubers)
roadblock or something. Now,
we're getting in finally. We're getting out of Centro.
(Laughs)
I'll sit in the middle.
Hello, good afternoon.
So, it has been a very long and fun day. We are officially
sunburned. I'm so tired. Tired, my feet have blisters on them
I cannot be on camera right now. [Laughter]
We're back at our hotel.
Might have to call it for the day and pick up tomorrow with some more shenanigans, but bye for now.
New day, new adventures.
We are climbing up this hill to see Castillo de Chapultepec because,
tons! Dozens and dozens of people recommended we go here.
It's got great views of the city we hear. 75 pesos ($3.91 USD) per person, 45 pesos to film ($2.35 USD)
For this, you, coming with us. (Laughs)
What do you know about this place? This place,
Castillo de Chapultepec used to be the home of
President Porfirio Diaz, well, he wasn't a president.
He was a dictator. He remained in power like 1,000 years, a lot of time.
Biblical age. Yeah, but this was like his home,
long time ago and
this place has a beautiful view of the city, you can see
Polanco,
Reforma... yeah, we have to go way up this hill to get there.
From here, you can see how far the park extends that way, just trees, as far as you can see.
The view up here is
amazing! And I love the breeze and it's just as foresty up here as it is down throughout the rest of the park.
It's pretty serene, except for the concert going on down there that echoes throughout this entire park. (Giggles)
This had to be the fanciest mode of transportation back in the day.
Does it turn into a pumpkin after midnight?
The detail on this ceiling is insane.
Oh my gosh!
This BBVA building is my favourite modern building that I've seen in the city. And at night,
it's incredible - lights up with all these super cool colours. And the only thing that matters to me with this building
is that,
that green part at the top is a slide and it ends at the orange part
and goes all the way down to the bottom
of the building. How many floors is that? That's going to be the most fun slide ever!
That'd be so dizzying. Oh, yeah.
Imagine going around in circles. It'd probably be fun for about the first 3 floors. (Laughs)
[Laughter]
Even if you're like us and you don't really typically care for going to museums and stuff,
we would highly recommend this because you get
360 views of the city - awesome views. You go upstairs...
I mean, people told us they were good views, but I was not
expecting like panoramic 360 views,
better than you are going to get
in most skyscrapers, I think.
And then you come up here to the top floor and there are these beautiful
gardens and it still has museum elements, like you can
see what the rooms used to look like and all that. But yeah, definitely worthwhile!
So as if we didn't realize this city was freaking gigantic before coming up here.
You are just like,
it's as far as you can see in every direction. In every direction! Mexico
City is just so big! So really puts it into perspective.
Amistad Mexico-Azerbaiyan Park.
Laughter...
Ah, poor thing!
Jordan! [Laughter]
Teasing the poor ardilla (Squirrel). What the hell is this?!? It's a leaf, get out of here!
So all our walking around, we've worked up quite an appetite,
and we wandered into this random restaurant and I know you're going to think this is completely crazy,
but we've rented out the entire thing!
You see this? Not really. There's just no one here. (Laughs)
I think it's actually some type of hotel.
There are actually a ton of restaurants in here, including down here. Is this lounge bar.
The platform where all these tables are is over top of the water,
so
super like ritzy and modern in here. Very interesting place.
And then, you just hop down the stairs and you come out here to find the weirdest
coolest fountain I've ever seen. I don't know if you would call this a fountain even.
This is so strange.
Looks like a torture pond.
(Laughs) it really does!
It's almost like a wave pool, except like, of death. Where you go to die.
Wave pool of death.
We decided to come with Emma and Shania to this pretty famous panadería (bread shop)
Called Panadería Esperanza, and oh my gosh, it smells so good right here!
The smells!
Filled with glutens, none for me. But I'm going to smell away!
Come here. They have
the famous
Tortas with chilaquiles inside. So it's like a chilaquiles sandwich.
As if either of those foods could get any more unhealthy.
(Laughs)
Did we buy a camera with the smell feature? That way they can get the smells.
Oh my gosh! This is like bread paradise!
Where is the Gluten-free bread? [Laughter]
This bread is so good! Oh my gosh!
We are taking a big box of this to Guadalajara. It's only here
in Mexico City.
So, it doesn't matter if we leave all of our luggage. (Laughs)
Never in my life in Mexico,
have I seen a Panaderia with so many options. This is just amazing.
I wish I could have some of this stuff but I just can't because of the skin issue
I'm dealing with. I can't eat bread. This is terrible.
Put a couple of Mexicans in a Panadería, and this is what happens.
This is only for dinner.
[Laughter] I'm just kidding.
Well, we're going to have to cut it off there guys.
We hope this video showed just how much fun we had.
It was a blast. You guys keep asking, where's Laska? How is Laska?
She's back in Puerto Morelos with our good friend Trish, from My Trish Advisor.
Thank you so much, Trish.
We don't want to bring her when we fly anywhere because they put dogs on the cargo hold of the plane
and that's just not fun for Laska or any other dogs.
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