Hey there Tangerineys! I'm Maddie, I'm Jordan, and we are Tangerine Travels!
Our travels have taken us, as you may have seen yesterday, to Ajijic, Mexico
near Lake Chapala.
We''re standing right now on the Ajijic malecon, and trying to do some exploring
Right now, we're walking along one of three pathways, it looks like, that goes
Up and down the malecon. And we're passing by basically dozens and dozens
of benches. We're also walking past a kids play area with slides, and
structures, and swings. When we come to a new place, we like to start with more
touristy areas, and then branch our way out from there. So today, we're going to
be exploring some of malecon, and then a little bit of the area surrounding it.
It always seems like the culture and the happenings that happen while they are
Happen to happen, can tend to be around like the El Centro area or in
this case the malecon. And we have yet to find the plaza. Yeah, very true.
Where's the gazebo? The center of the center! Right now we're walking around in
the neighborhood of the Ajijic malecon, and everywhere we turn the buildings are
painted bright, vivid colors! I think this rivals Guanajuato for how
colorful it is. In fact, I think this is more colorful than Guanajuato City.
More concentrated, yeah. And definitely, these murals are so intricate! The
artwork is flawless! And a lot of them are very new. One that we saw down the
street was only a month old, and this is a few months old here. Few years old. A few
years old. [Laughter]
So, in addition to just about every single building facade being
painted a bright color, or just a color of some kind,
There's also artwork everywhere!
Whether that's patterns, or designs, murals, just
anywhere you look! And it seems like there might be a kid's project. Like a
school project or something where they've painted the wooden telephone
poles white, and then on top of the white, they paint like little designs of
various things all over the place. So it's just so cute! It gives it so much
character! But I just love everywhere you turn, even the flower pots are painted! It
really gives the city a lot of life, and vibrancy, and uniqueness that isn't
everywhere! Yeah, you know some place that I thought was similar to this is
downtown Tlaquepaque. And there, you have lots of cool little
shops and tons of artwork like this, and that is a
Place with a lot of character similar to Ajijic. Yeah, that was. We noticed
definitely close to the Malecon you have all the little shops with artesanias,
clothing, and yeah, it really is a whole lot like Tlaquepaque!
So, we've only been here for a short time, and we've only just practically scratched
the surface of everything that we could possibly see here. I'm sure. I mean that's
the case of any place. But I can totally see why people love this place! There's
just something about, it this great energy, people are friendly. Yeah, I'd
retire here. The weather is nice. Obviously, the whole city so far,
It's been just beautiful to look at and has such, yeah, charm. That's
What I keep coming back to, it's very charming. And we do have a few things on
the flip side of that. We definitely have people say like "Don't make Ajijic
look too great, we don't want more gringos coming here and ruining it." And
we have a few thoughts on that. So we won't get into that in this
video, but in a future one. But in one coming up, so stay tuned.
We are here in the restaurant Casa Bonanza.
We ordered Centenario... No, cantarito.
A large cantarito. This is a magnificent drink if I ever saw one.
For 100 pesos.
Hey there, Tangerineys! It is another adventure here in Ajijic. And today is
Tuesday, which means, farmers market! Tuesday farmers market at Lake Chapala, Ajijic!
I don't know if there's any more specific name than that, but we're really excited
to explore around here. We've heard nothing but good things except for the
fact that it is more pricey than some stuff that you might find in town, so
we'll see if that's the case. We'll see what's going on.
I'm excited to eat some good stuff! Yeah.
Hi there! Kuki's Cookies! Yes!
So Jordan, what are we getting here?
Gluten free Kuki's Cookies! Kuki's Cookies, which we had
first at... We had them at Andares (mall in Guadalajara)
40 pesos. Gluten free. All the good, all the delicious!
So behind us here, you see the market. We've been walking around for maybe like
15 or so minutes, but I feel quite overwhelmed there's so many tables with so much good food!
To try. And for people who only speak English, you'll have no problem here! Almost everyone at
all of these booths speaks English. And can accommodate that way.
We were trying to practice our Spanish, of course, so we decided to have awkward
conversations in Spanish. [Laughter]
We didn't show them, dangit! We didn't show you, I'm sorry!
We'll try to do that later. But it does seem
like the claims are true, the food and things might be a little bit more pricey
than what we're used to. In fact, even one of the juices that were used to buying
3 for 50 at Andares farmers market, is 3 for 60 here. So a little bit
higher prices, but there's a lot, a lot, a lot that you can buy here! Yeah, if I lived
here I probably come here every Tuesday. Absolutely! And you can tell people do.
They flock here, they go to their favorite booths, push you out of the way
If you're standing in the way. There were some booths where we couldn't even
have a conversation because they were so busy. Yeah. But that's a great thing.
You can tell it's a good stuff if people are running back here every week
To get it. But I mean, there's everything here. It's not just a market
filled with food. There's also handmade wooden items, clothing,
Supplements, vitamins. One thing I'd change next time though, I'd come back here
without eating breakfast first. Yeah. We made the mistake of eating before we
came here. That was bad.
Oh well, we got some stuff to take home like this ginger beer,
For 40 pesos. He's doing like a recycling
program if you bring the bottle back, you get five pesos.
That's pretty cool.
What do we have here? If you are looking for some gluten-free stuff, well, I found
something for you. Erm...
So on the street there's these plastic flags above. We see
this pretty often here in Mexico, but I've never known what they're called. What are those?
They've got to have a name. [Laughter]
[Guy driving a truck with a loudspeaker selling fruit]
What did you get? Una bolsita de fresas! 10 pesos! Paseles! (A little bag of strawberries for 10 pesos! Come on up!)
[Laughter] Oh, that makes me laugh! 10 pesos for a bag of strawberries.
We are here at El Centro of Ajijic. And we are walking up to our favorite place
That we show you guys every time. And that would be... This one is really cool!
Yeah! With all these birds, kind of with the theme of the lake.
Uh-huh. Pelican, very ornate
designs here. I don't know what kind of bird that is.
There's an owl in there. And look! Oh my gosh, we have to go show them this tree over here!
Jordan's acting as if, what
do we do now that we are in El Centro?
Do we not go to the center every single
time!? Where should we go now? The center of the center!
With this gorgeous chandelier up here! Look out, it's my turn!
[Pushing each other to be in very middle.] No! No! No! No!
This is so Ajijic!
This town is so colorful! There's murals all over the place. And it's just amazing!
Here we have what looks like a carved tree. Turtle, lizard, painted all around!
Wow, this is just beautiful!
We were looking for Laska everywhere! All around the house
And what, you found your perfect ledge where you can sun yourself! Is that right?
Oh my gosh! Is this the best spot in the house?
In general, the weather here in Ajijic is great!
It's always perfect!
But, while we're on our way home, we were getting a little
bit hot, so we decided to stop and get some paletas. Some popsicles. Unlike in
The U.S. popsicles here are not just for kids.
Popsicles are for everyone!
And they also contain fresh fruit.
In this, this popsicle contains
Mango, chile, and chamoy.
Look at these pieces! And I got one that's made with orange
juice, and there's a whole bunch of different fruits inside! You're just gonna
have to trust me on this one. This is really great to help you cool off on a hot walk
home, and depending on which one you get, it's somewhere between twelve and
sixteen pesos at this little shop.
And if we remember the location correctly, it's on the corner of sies esquinas (6 corners) and libertad.
No, I think the corner is called Seis Esquinas. The corner is called Sies Esquinas.
So you may have noticed we did things a little bit differently in this video. For
example, even though we've had it the entire time we've been in Mexico, we took out
The drone for the very first time. Let us know what you thought of it. Does it add
something to it? Are those over done? I don't know. Yeah, let us know what you
guys think! Another thing you might have noticed is that we were wearing
different clothes throughout the video, and that is because we're trying
something out where we don't limit ourselves to just one day to make a
video. Instead, we're seeing the different adventures that we can have across
Multiple days. So, might be confusing. Maybe you hated it, let us know! But we
think it gives us an opportunity to show you guys more than just what we can do
in one day. But we're still making tweaks with it, we know we have ways we can
improve and such. Coming up, we are taking a hiking tour,
This mountain that you may or may
not be able to see behind us. We'll have a special guest with us coming up soon.
Another Youtuber, feel free to make some guesses on who you think that might be.
But we will show you soon enough! And hopefully we will
be going to a thermal spa! All those things, [Laughter] Stay tuned for all of that! We're
Really excited to show you! Thank you guys again though for bearing with us,
Because we are dealing with slightly slower internet speeds than we're used to,
So uploading takes significantly longer!
But, it is much faster than the first
video we uploaded (in Ajijic). Anyway, if you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up!
And subscribe to our channel to see more of these things that we told you we
have upcoming for you. Oh my gosh, there's actually a bell up there! I wonder... [Laughter]
It's probably too far away, okay. And!
GONG THAT BELL! [Maddie Gasps in disbelief]
He gonged it! He gonged it and said Gong it! Okay, whatever!
Dog Gongit. I stole it! Why should they gong that bell?
If you're gonna stay Gong that Bell, you need to tell them why they need to do it! [Laughter]
Gong that bell so you get notified every time we upload a new video! And we will
see you there! And we will see you there.