The attention to detail in this place is incredible
When we first arrived
We didn't
really appreciate how big it was we had seen photos of the the nest, the giant snake where we are now. The snake head
I'd seen a couple other photos of different houses, but this is an enormous park. This is 18 hectares and
You could spend all day just exploring one little section of it. It is massive, and it's not even finish it,
It's only 75% completed; the details on all the small little railings and the walkways and how the trees twist together
That amount of detail on this amount of scale would be so much time
This is the park of Quetzalcoatl named after the Aztec snake God of wind and learning
created by Mexican architect Javier Senosiain,
and it was built under the philosophy of organic architecture a style of design promoting harmony between humans and nature
The buildings blend into their surroundings
Being placed in a way to fit naturally into the landscape and using forms similar to what's found in nature
our
exploration starts at Quetzalcoatl´s nest, which is the residential area of the park and houses, ten apartments; one of them an
Airbnb
Right now we're walking across Quetzalcoatl´s back
here inside this giant arch
is ten apartments,
one of those being our B&B which actually is below us right now.
Did you see what the the walkways are like?, all beautiful crystals and jewels and carved stones.
So one of the apartments it's kind of dark in here has been converted into a
museum
Where you can see all of Javier´s
previous organic architecture
That's where we are now. I want to show you some of the things he's created
These are a small dioramas of buildings that actually do exist on this planet.
Teletubbies it's nicknamed the Teletubbies
because it look like for four Teletubbies, this actually exists
It's amazing, you can see here in the museum specially the wide variety of shapes that you can use to make organic architecture
It's beautiful and a lot of the shapes are very familiar because they´re shapes you find in nature
Could be in shells could be in plankton could be in
flowers, all these are source of inspiration to be able to build something that fits directly in the nature. Oh wow here they have
Dioramas for the parks gonna look like when it's finished right now. It's 75 percent
This is really cool, so here, here we go; look up here is where we are now
This is the... it's not rainbow in this diorama, but that is Quetzalcoatl. You can see the snake
head you can see his body and
This is how big the entire park is,
so we've only seen a
fraction of this when all of this exists, they're still building the Visitor Center
and they're still working on this lake. This area, the plant kingdom, the greenhouse is supposed to be gorgeous
we'll head there next, and these bridges, so we've only seen like a fraction of this one
There's a giant enormous amount that they plan to have open to the public
Look at this
So we are right below the body of the snake. There is a walkway that winds into Quetzalcoatl´s mouth
Okay, where does the snake start?
Somewhere up there is the tail; the tail of the snakes, then goes
through here
wraps around, and Quetzalcoatl plunges into the ground and his face emerges
right here
Small little colored donuts
This is like a big scale of what we call chaquira, which is the art of the huicholes, and
they all of these pieces are unique and they are made in by
artisans. - So these are all handmade. -Yeah.
Let's do it
It's even rainbow on the inside
So the story says that
Javier
Wanted to keep this cave here. Originally they wanted to demolish it, the people who we're gonna use this for houses
But he saw the mouth of a snake
And they tried to keep the cave as intact as he could so this is for the most part its natural shape
There's a fork in the road one goes towards the light again...
and Kick the grind goes left into the dark. -Ah, there is a light there. Look what I found.
-That makes it a lot easier. What is this?
I feel like we´re stuck in a video game, if you go touch that a giant boulder is gonna fall from the ceiling and
the snakes are gonna come alive and
we're all gonna be trapped in here forever.
This is very very Indiana Jones right now.
Oh but no, it's it's a tap, look!, does it work? -It actually works! -It´s a bathroom!
This place is huge. I thought it was gonna be a small little cave
There's sinks, there is a stove
You can have a party in here, it's all rainbows.
This place is full of surprises
Look at this it's like a... -It's open!
Look at this
It´s all mirrors. -You know what it looks like?, like a manta ray
Like a manta ray. -Mira!, Porque mira the tail...
-Definitely looks like a sea creature, look at this though. It's like giant metal spikes, are they sharp? -No, I mean
Yes, you know, If you sit there, you're gonna have a hard time. -Another tunnel, another walkway leading to a tunnel. -It´s locked.
-It's locked. -Oh we are gonna be trapped...
-This is like we're in some kind of Dungeons & Dragons game.
Look at it. It's a giant door with a spider on it...
Get it, get the photo, oh my god my neck...ah!
are you taking a photo? -Yeaaah. -That´s a photo? -No it´s video! You said video...
Walking around the park you can see that it has very few sharp hard edges
and I'm gonna paraphrase something that the architect Javier said, he says that you're
given everything in a box in your life
You sit in a square desk, you watch a square television and really it teaches you to be square,
but you come here, and you come into nature and everything is rounded an
organic feeling and if you think that way you're much more creative. We found the fork in the road going to the plant kingdom,
that
Rainbow-colored entrance, and the mineral kingdom, which is this much more jungle entrance?
There should be some cool things inside
Mineral kingdom, first on the list.
I have never seen a place like this before in all my travels
This is stealing a spot in the top five most beautiful locations I´ve visited
They told us the the greenhouse was beautiful, and I think that was a bit of a conservative statement because
I've never seen stained glass like this, and I've never seen a shape
So beautiful so colorful
in any kind of architecture, this is really special. We are exiting the top of the greenhouse and
we have
this insane terrace
We're a little bit lost
It's so beautiful though, right?
Everything's carved into snakes and scales
As we walked through this gigantic park we realized this no chance that we're gonna see it all. This is totally that end.
We
have some dresses we're gonna wear. Not me, Mariannela. We're gonna go throw those on,
take a few photos, grab the glidecam and get some shots
I need to bring more dresses
This is... this is the way in? its it's like half a meter! -Yes I told you, you won´t fit in.
-Hola hola!! -Haha, Oh my god, it's so tiny
Wow!, You are filming me trying to fit through in this, in the snake´s mouth
This place is
so cool, right? -It is super cool.
Ladies gentlemen we're wrapping up our tour of the day because the day is wrapping up as well
And we've probably spent eight hours exploring and have seen two-thirds
We found crazy spider doors hidden passages that are actually snakes. We found floating boats. We found labyrin.. labyrinth
labyrinths...
And we've only seen like fraction of it; one thing we want to
Let you know is it's not actually open to the public. -No,
But! you can book it through Airbnb TripAdvisor or actually call for a private tour,
and we recommend it if you're in Mexico you have to visit Nido de Quetzalcoatl.
It is an Oasis tucked away on the side of Mexico City, which is not exactly an oasis... -Estado de México, si.
But you can see how green and beautiful is here
it is incredible, and you should check it out if you are anywhere near, Mexico City
Experiences over possessions. -Kick the grind. -Catch you guys next video
I wish I could touch her
You probably can
Oh
she is scared now