hi everyone and welcome this is part four of my series coming from the state of durango in
mexico and today we have come out of durango city itself and we've headed 50 minutes on the bus
to a tiny little town called nombre de dios or in english name of god it's a pueblo mexico
or in other words a magic town and today we're going to be exploring we'll be having some food
and we're going to be going to an absolutely monumental location so why don't you come
along with me okay amigos we have some local brothers cool they look they look very similar
look at that behind me it wouldn't be a pueblo magical without a kiosk in the middle and this
central square with the colorful buildings around the outsides yellows blues oranges burgundies
you name it and it's quite hot today baking baking sunday and my water bottle has spilled
in my bag so my back is drenched classic and the name nombre de dios is quite interesting right
name of god what's that about it's actually the oldest town in the state of durango when
we talk about spanish colonialism so it was originally called villa de los cuatro templas
i guess place of four temples and it was renamed nombre de dios in 1563 which as i said is before
durango came into being i've just met this nice lady as you can see there's lots of
mezcal on this stool with scorpion just like we saw in durango uh licor de membrillo um
ah pear, ah coffee, ah
pomegranate
and apparently it's only been a magic town since 2018 so it's fairly recent and i think you can
kind of tell that sense that in a way with the exception of this sort of central square
the rest of nombre de dios doesn't really have that same kind of feeling as
places like Jerez or Real del monte obviously it's going to be different
because it's a different state not they're not all the same it would be boring if they were
but it doesn't kind of have that same magic magic feeling at least that's my first impression
perhaps it will change i'm sure it will all right the brothers are back again hola amigos dios is
kind of one of the main places in terms of tourism as you can see there's a visit durango thing there
and you know there may not be international tourists here apart from me
as always but clearly there is there are domestic tourists maybe not today it's a
bit quiet it is sunday there's a lovely church up there let's take a closer look at these buildings
basically a butcher super del centro and just like places like hales you know it's got this nice
font lettering on the facade of buildings look at this on a sunday
beautiful weather nice and quiet these buildings haven't got the same kind of like rustic
paint work if you know what i mean that you see in a lot of magic towns perhaps it is because it is
relatively new in terms of the whole magic town initiative i say this in every magic town video
but if you come to mexico and you don't go to a magic town personally my personal view is that you
have kind of missed out because it is a special part of mexico in terms of its culture look at it
right we've talked to some locals i've been interviewed by two guys doing some homework
and also i bought some sunflower seeds off some women but now it's time for some proper food it's
this place it's up here so the mask is going on right we'll just let this track of hay go past
as it reveals the place behind it is the one with the green front it's called dona aleja gorditas oh
look at this so gorditas are 12 pesos each and as you can see there are many different options
i have had a look at the menu before i got here i'm having discarda which we were going to have
in one of the last videos but we couldn't and also picadillo roja which has been recommended to me
so they're stuck in or maybe it's ten there are ten pesos at the top oh which with cheese
is twelve right david read properly it's got a really interesting decor all these plates
around the side coca-cola ones up there fanta a little bit more modern well maybe 80s pictures
everywhere and as you can see over there that's where they prepare the gorditas
okay so that's where they prepare the gorditas
And
dona aleja is the grandmother? Yes she was my grandmother. Wow,
amazing! My mother is the owner right now. My grandmother started all this
fantastic i've heard a lot of good things about here well it's what she left us we have to keep
it on great proper proper family business amazing it's actually a family business yeah
great more than that definitely it's it's your life yeah yeah it's what we do and what we're
gonna keep doing yeah for generations yeah for a long time yeah awesome before we sit down to eat
yeah look at all these birds like canaries budgies i read about this when i was researching it
isn't it cool i love these little places in mexico they are absolute gems so as you
heard from the lady then this is her grandmother alejandrina gonzalez serrano the abuelita that
created these amazing gorditas could alejandrina be the maker of the best gorditas in mexico
i think she might be so basically i've got this discada and picadillo roja i'm not sure which
one is which i think that might be the this gutter because basically this gunner is meat galore i'll
go into that in a second and then picadillo is also various meats there's onion in there too i've
someone told me there was potato in it yeah i think there is um i hope i haven't got these the
wrong way around that would be embarrassing this is possibly discada basically discada if you think
about it the word disc in english so it comes from discus in latin yes we're doing an english session
too um also um dial it's like disc or dial and apparently this gutter normally it would be like
in a big load of meat so it's prepared actually on this circular disc or dial that is actually like
i think the word is a harrow so it's the thing that those vehicles used to plow fields in farming
and basically it's loads of meat so bacon pork beef you name it and apparently they
put the bacon on first and allow the fats to come out the bacon and then the bacon
is removed and then the other meats are put on and is are cooked in the bacon fat so let's go
oh my actual jesus sorry
oh my god
so much meat spicy as hell hmm look at that man these are outstanding soft on that bit
and the bottom is like crispy so like half of it is crispy the rest is soft oh my god
oh okay yeah i think this is the discada because it tastes like pork and bacon and
sausage brilliant i can't go back now can i the wonders of eating food in other countries
very bulky okay now that i've finally fathomed which one is which
this is disguise it's got sausage in it i'm really liking this one it's kind of growing on me
i think after having the roja one quite strong and overpowering this isn't so much it's quite mild
but very meaty jesus right the um gorditas certainly did what they say on the tin if you
didn't know gordo in spanish is basically fat and gordita kind of if you translate it literally it's
like chubby girl i definitely feel like one right now jesus christ um the next stop is the momentous
epic place but as i said in the last video about research i don't know how to get there
so we're gonna have to just see what happens and hope that we get there
i asked that woman but she wasn't sure really in obviously if you have a car
getting to this place won't be an issue so what are my other options think david there
could be a local bus there could be a taxi that will take me surely one of them will work out
okay i think the main road is down here where i got off the bus so
let's go down here and see if we can find a local bus or last resort a taxi this is the bus area
voila but that's going in the other direction um there is a bus apparently like a tourist bus that
does the ruta de mezcal the mezcal route but i just want to go to the place i want to go to
taxis okay let's see what we can do i've asked the lady in the omnibus place taxi is the only way
sometimes that's life so the next step is to actually find a taxi
or a good hitchhike on the back of a truck i'm too old for that
okay 150 pesos later and a taxi driver with a glass eye and we're here at el saltito
i just dropped a horse poo as well it's one of them days today also we're at a waterfall
oh my lord
okay it's very nice but the big question of the year is where's the waterfall i'm assuming
over there but it looks like it's all dried up why do these things always happen to me
i think i'll have to try and get down there as well i see people look at all the trees
then the trees look nice and there are people behind there swimming and stuff
there's some sort of old building over there good cars up the top
all right let's walk this way okay we're getting to that other car park over there
ow prickly things
okay we're heading down now look at these rocks up here
amazing oh wow look at all the colors it's like red orange greys blacks and graffiti of course
that looks amazing jesus graffiti isn't so good this kind of feels tepotzlan-esque
except going in the other direction when i was there i went up this mountain thing
the trees look cool all right some more steps to go all right i've got a few more
rocks to clamber over as i just fall off one wowzers look at this i'm at the bottom
and we've got this light lake in the middle with no waterfall but whatever there's quite
a lot of people here it's quite interesting no one's wearing any masks how bizarre including
me it feels weird not wearing one people doing barbecues over there i think people swimming
i'm just having a little paddle in the water i should have bought my swimming costume not
that i have one actually the water is quite warm you know and there's an amazing dragonfly like
literally on my phone right now so obviously i can't show you because i'm filming with my phone
beautiful the sun is out on a sunday afternoon in the middle of nowhere in mexico it's a
shame there's no waterfall i could just stay here forever it's bloody beautiful
norm lady dios el saltito i might come back here you never know just for a day without the camera
there are dragonflies everywhere i could go for a swim amazing gorditas i hope you've enjoyed
this video another pueblo mexico if you would like to see more videos like this don't forget
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durango or probably the whole mexico one or maybe even the next video so you can continue
watching another one next time we will be in somewhere else in a new state it's very close
to durango you'll probably know what it is if you're mexican anyway i'll see you next time
oh it's a dragonfly again it's oh it's amazing i'll try and get a shot of one see you next time
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