3,2,1....
It's the end of January and there's a few
important things that happen this time of year.
- Number one. - My birthday - It's her Birthday.
- Number Two. - It's my Birthday
- No.... Number Three. - It's Sunny?
It's the annual Monarch Butterfly migration from Canada
and Northern United States all the way down to Mexico
4500 kilometers, these little guys fly
to Overwinter it's incredible
We're going to be showing you two places:
Santuario El Rosario and Sierra Chincua
Both in Michoacan
So! It's honestly... honestly. It's Beautiful.
I can't wait to show you.
The butterfly reserve is located about three
hours west of Mexico City. It's actually
a giant park. There are 4 or 5 sanctuaries
you can visit, all of which hug the
border between the state of Mexico and
the state of Michoacan. You can do a
day trip, or you can stay in the town of
Angangueo.
Either way plug Angangueo into your GPS because
the two most popular sanctuaries are
just a few kilometers away.
Alright, so we've begun the ascent
to the top of Sierra Chincua, which is the second
most famous sanctuary here in
the Michoacán State.
The park itself is many many many different sites.
It's a big forest, and this one,
apparently, is one of the nicer ones in Michoacan.
It's 3,300 meters above sea level,
which means it's about 1000 meters
above the altitude of Mexico City
"Welcome to the Monarch Experience" *Read in bad Spanish*
"Feel the aromas, and sounds" *Read in bad Spanish*
"Let yourself be enveloped by the environment" *Read in bad Spanish*
Do you like my Spanish voice?
Estoy Miqué Iglesias. El Maestro de Español!
This view is the shit!
The first Butterflies? Show me.
So! Just up the hill about two kilometers
there is millions and millions of
monarch butterflies and here we've
only seen 4! It's beautiful here look tall
pine trees, and flowers everywhere.
Soon it's going to be butterflies *Swish* *Woosh* Everywhere. I can't wait!
Look at them all!
I don't know if you can see on the camera but there's thousands.
This is so cool!
*Laughing* Wow!
It's like a fairy tale land!
You can hear them! You can hear them flapping
*Flapping Sounds*
Millions of wings.
Okay! We've been walking for about an hour and we
are finally just on the edge of the
sanctuary. We were told not to speak loudly
because butterflies don't like loud noises.
I was asking what its gonna be
like... and he said the trees will be covered
with butterflies. Which is crazy if because you
look out right now, you can see thousands.
It's honestly one of the most beautiful things I've seen.
Bright orange butterflies swirling through these green pine trees.
It's Dope. Ouf!
I can't wait to actually get inside the sanctuary
This is cool... If this was the trip, I'd be happy!
This is incredible!
There are branches that are completely covered.
It's a bit dark but, see all these black forms in the trees?
these are all giant mounds of monarchs
you can see them a little bit better right there.
There must be hundreds of thousands,
just coating the trees.
You can hear them. It sounds like it's raining right now.
Like we talked about,
some of them travel from Canada to come all the
way down here to Mexico. Over 4,000km
They come here to have their babies
and then unfortunately,
They all pass away
Ok! We've just arrived at El Rosario, the most famous butterfly
sanctuary in Michoacan. It apparently as the most butterflies,
but also the most people... we're going to check it out.
- He's talking like he's in a porn movie *Heavy Breathing* - I love Butterflies
- It's not altitude at all!
Ok! We're just finishing day 2 of seeing butterflies in Michoacán
This is Sierra Chincua
and we definitely recommend checking out this spot
over the popular spot. They're both cool
You have to hike bit more for this one,
but we saw Four people today?
We had the place basically to ourselves
And all them butterflies were our friends.
So! On that note.... - Kick the G--- - No!!
Experiences over Possessions. Kick the Grind.
My Microphone fell off. Catch you guys next video.