Good morning tangerineys! We are in Mérida right now in the state of Yucatan,
And we are staying in this gorgeous home. A couple opened up their home to us but
we are going on this like super cool tour. But we're gonna get to see pink
water lakes, flamingos, take a mud bath. I'm not really sure what all is
included, but it's a full-day thing. They're picking us up here at the house
so they'll be here any minute, we better get going.
So how was your Christmas, Jonathan?
Great! I woke up under the table.
[Laughter] You always know it's a good Christmas when you wake up under the table. [Laughter]
We just got to the biosphere reserve at Rio Lagartos. There's like an inlet from
the Gulf of Mexico, but then there's also underground freshwater rivers. So this is
a mixture of freshwater and saltwater.
So it was about like a two and a half, three hour drive here from Merida, and I
believe it's also very close from Cancun. So far, I am really liking it! It's so nice
outside! It's somewhere around 80 but it feels like
75 because we've got this really great breeze. The water is crystal clear! So
We're walking through the swamp here or whatever you call this, and we are
looking for some crocodiles.
[Jordan in an Australian accent] So after going into the swamp it appears there is one crocodile!
About five feet long!
Five? Try like three, that thing was like... From head to tail, about five feet long.
Maybe four. Your accent is fizzling out. Ah crikey!
Hello from the future! And from a different city. If you want to find out
where and you haven't already from our Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. We will tell
You at the end of this video. I have to come in now because it was so windy!
We couldn't record anything for the rest of this tour. We're still working on the
external microphone situation so that we can overcome that little hurdle. But we
had an awesome time taking the boat through the river! We got to see so much
wildlife: like herons, crocodiles. Like I've never in my life been so close to
crocodiles. We've spotted another crocodile. We're going to sneak in there!
And see what we can find!
We've spotted one!
Oh man, look at those teeth!
Oh! Oh, he's big!
This is a big one. Wow!
This reminded us a whole lot of
The tour that we took back in San Blas (Nayarit) through the jungle, which was also really
cool. One of our favorite parts of this tour was seeing pelicans!
Here they come. Ahh! [Laughter] Look at you guys!
Hey! The boat driver
that we had, had a fish, and was tempting them with it.
Look at their heads! [Laughter]
Give me the fish, now!
Look at them all! So I'm convinced pelicans
are exactly like dogs.
[Laughter]
Oh, he's following. He did it!
When we got there to the pink lakes, Las Coloradas,
There were flamingos there
But unfortunately the boat that was right in front of us scared away like
half the flock. So we were told that if you want to see a lot of them, go as
early in the morning as you possibly can. When we got to the pink lakes, we were
expecting to be able to do what we've seen in a lot of Instagram pictures, and
videos, and whatnot. Which is be right up next to them, maybe even get to feel
some of the salt. But they have closed that off to people completely because
the companies that were buying the salt we're complaining that they were
contaminated with chemicals and a bunch of other stuff, like sunscreen probably.
Makeup and whatever other body cooties people were putting in there from
swimming in them. So that is totally not possible to swim in them anymore.
I don't really even know why people were, but that's beside the point. It was
really cool we thought to see that the pink lakes, we've never seen anything
like that before. But being as far away from them as we
were, it felt a little like underwhelming if we're being honest.
On the boat right back, they gave us some really fine mud to rub all over
ourselves. It has great healing properties for the skin. Healing
and like exfoliating properties.
It's a ghost! This is getting to be a disaster! [Laughter]
And the mud had a great chance to dry on the way
back where we saw another huge crocodile! And we were just as close to this one, seeing
its shiny white teeth, and that was...
Terrifying!
Oh my gosh!
Look at his tail! This is definitely a dinosaur!
[Laughter] It's like "It's a trap!"
Oh my gosh!
Nope, he's retreating!
[Laughter] Pretty cool! Once we got back,
We got to wash off the mud in the local spring
sort of area. It's where the groundwater seeps up, and it mixes with the salty
water of the river. That was not my favorite part!
Let's do this! No, I don't want to!
[Laughter] Why did I put this mud on me?
[Laughter]
Hey, look at me. There's gross stuff in here! Look at me.
It's like slimy!
Ahh!! [Laughter]
[Laughter] Ewe, something touched me!
Yeah, don't touch down!
Oh my gosh, I hate this so much! [Laughter]
It's still all over your face. I know! [Laughter]
Okay, so I vastly prefer...Oh gosh, something just touched me!
The experience in Ajijic.
I'm going to go back in time and take it off me.
Well, good adjacent.
That was just not...
There was lunch for us that the tour company paid for. It was included in the
price. And then we made the two-and-a-half or three-hour drive back.
And that was the day for us. Unlike some tours that we've taken, this
was mostly just a tour that was organized for us. We didn't have to drive.
I really appreciate that whenever we can not be behind the wheel and let someone
else who knows the roads better do that, we like to take the opportunity. So that
was nice! And of course everything was all planned. This wasn't the most
informational tour, as in we didn't get tons of information about the area, about
the pink lakes, about flamingos, or anything like that. But we did get to
experience all of this and see the wildlife. So if you're in Merida, and you
would like to take this tour as well, we are going to put the information below
in the description of the tour company that we used. Since making this video we
have left Merida and travelled to Puerto Morelos, which is a small, quaint beach
town in between Cancun and Playa del Carmen, and we are absolutely loving it
here! So much in fact, that for the first time in months, we are actually thinking
of settling down here for a few months. One, two, maybe six, maybe longer. Maybe
we'll make this our home base. So we are really excited to show you this city!
We're just totally enamored with it! So look for those videos coming up. Please
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