now imagine if there was an alternate dimension where tacos al pastor
didn't exist I wouldn't want to live there would you? can you see this? look at it!
Oh my actual God! Tlaxcala does offer absolutely everything that everywhere else
in Mexico does. Hola amigos and welcome back to another Mexico video believe it
or not not all places in Mexico are this magical glistening utopia that is often
portrayed by many Mexico youtubers including me to US expats looking to
move to Mexico to magically miraculously solve all of their financial woes. Some
places can be distinctly average but that's okay.
today I'm in the city of Tlaxcala which is in the state of Tlaxcala, this is the
smallest state in Mexico and is a state that is often unknown by many people it
definitely was unknown by me up until a few weeks ago it's just north of Puebla
it's east of Mexico City and I've been here for the last 10 days meaning I've
had an opportunity to really experience this city, yes it was average in the
beginning but we're gonna see in this video why my opinion has changed. We've
got a lot to cram in so let's get going!
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today is Tuesday morning and we are in the zocalo that's where we're starting off
this video as usual and I've got to say there are comparisons you make with
somewhere like Puebla considering it is just down the road and yes it is quieter in
the evening when you go to Puebla in the evening there's people everywhere
and it's very busy and hectic but you also get that here to a lesser extent
and that's one of the wonderful things about coming to a place that is
lesser-known because there are no tourists there are no foreigners there
are no expats you have to speak Spanish and that's one of the things about
Mexico that I love doing I think you've seen that from other videos. Around this
Zocalo you've got fantastic restaurants all the way around the sid, Tlaxcala
is the state in Mexico that has the fifth highest level of poverty so you
wouldn't expect necessarily you know extravagant restaurants things like that
but actually I'm really impressed with a lot of the restaurants here there's a
market around the outside there's a fountain over there there's pigeons
everywhere there's locals sitting around sometimes on a Sunday you get people
doing opera singing for money their usual sort of stuff that you see in
towns like this in Mexico so I'm loving it and as you can see around the outside
you've got Christmas decorations going up christmas is coming huns, Feliz
Navidad!
welcome toTlaxcala we have the sign behind us as always normally these signs
are like brightly colored like the ones in Puebla and Tequisquiapan and places
like that but this one has pictures of people on it and it shows the history of
Tlaxcala because Tlaxcala didn't exist before pre-hispanic times it was
largely built by the Spanish has a great history with Hernan Cortes the
conquistador who was responsible for the downfall of the Aztecs you know there is
an element of domestic tourism here in terms of Mexicans definitely I'm I've
met Mexicans here from elsewhere in Mexico I just met a lovely couple two
ladies from Colombia near the border with Ecuador I actually understood their
Spanish, Frontera is border right and so it's great that you know there is
tourism here it may not be international tourism but it's definitely evident I
was in Jerez de Garcia Salinas about five months ago in Zacatecas and this
place feels just like it but on a larger scale largely because of the lack of
foreigners you do have to speak Spanish and it just looks like a Jerez very much
so I'm loving it. Up here by this lovely archway you have one of the oldest
cathedrals in Mexico you have museums galore you have pulquerias down there
but over to my left is something amazing. as well as awesome views over the city
you also have done here as you can see a bullring the Jorge Aguilar Ranchero
there's also things like festivals and fairs and markets that happen here and I
know that bullfighting you could argue yes animal cruelty it's
not right however it is part of history and
culture in certain countries like Spain and Mexico so you know you just have to
go with it let's go down and take a closer look
I don't know much about bullfighting but I feel like a bullfighter entering the
ring to battle my bull it's um a bit smaller than I thought it would be
of course you've got the spectator bit around the outside yeah awesome
(Bullring music)
Toro Tlaxcala I know Toro that means bull I think and yeah you can see
we're on the outside the Mexico Espana cultural thing you know there is a huge
connection I came here the other day and there is a leaflet that they give you
afterwards which shows you details of bullfighters and Bulls and many of them
although although many of them are from Tlaxcala itself many of them are
actually from Spain for example Sevilla then places like that pictures of bulls
around the top . By the way if you're wondering have got lipstick on I haven't I've got dry
lips its lip balm alright I look like a drag queen! anyway we're going up that
way we're going up in the world! Guanajuato San Miguel Vallarta
Cancun Merida you name it all those places are very popular with foreigners
with good reason however Tlaxcala still has the things that you would see
in those places there are cobble streets as colorful buildings, local food you
name it so consider doing a bit more research rather than just blindly
following what youtubers tell you alright
this is the Escalanita de los Heroes which I'm probably wrong but does escalanitas
mean escalators? or you know stairway or something because that's what
we're doing we're climbing a stairway and the statues I believe they're like
prominent figures in Mexican history I'm not sure they're to do with like the
revolución or something though from the top you can get some
amazing views
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so as you can see stunning views once again that red church kind of in the
middle that's kind of why I'm staying the Zocalo is near there we've got
this stairway all the way down to the road down the look down below colorful
buildings everywhere hills in the background you don't need to be in
someone like Guanajuato to experience this kind of thing in
Mexico. We're taking a break now there are mucho horrible children
from the local escuela that's school right and I've got my new favourite
Manzana Boing actually Uva is my favorite but you know, not available in the shop right let's head down let's get away from filming children
before YouTube's demonetizes me for doing just that
yes that's the thing now apparently we're gonna have some food now some
comida mexicana there's some great places here to eat as I said there's
some awesome restaurants but we're going to go to some typical local places that
locals go to and there's one very special that I am actually addicted to I
really hope this music isn't copyrighted other things doing the state of Tlaxcala
there are some archaeological sites don't you far away well if there's fire fires
in the summer that's fireflies season so come in the
summer if you want to see them
okay we're gonna do food in Reverse today we're gonna have dessert
first because the place I want to go to isn't open yet so I'm but that's okay
we'll go down the same hole right
right it's incredibly difficult to film because I don't have any hands-free but
there are no donuts unfortunately my yesterday when I was
sitting there absolutely huge and beautiful so I have this like chocolate
cake thing covered in chocolate and is ready things with pink on the top
obviously I have no idea what these things are
let me know down in the comments and if you do, I'm hungry let's eat
Thankyou, see you later
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right it's bakery time first we're gonna start off with this cake that is covered
in some kind of chocolate I'm thinking it might be like full of cream or
something I'm not too keen on that it feels like an eclair it's that kind
of consistency texture oh my actual god this is a surprise
10 things that shocked me about Tlaxcala this cake did genuine shock for
once, chocolate on the top it's got like a strawberry filling I love this and yet
the pastry I don't know I don't know cakes and it feels like an eclair or
something like that, I don't know food, I just wanna eat it, lush! Look at that amigos
you know what bakeries I've never shown a mixing bakery in a video since it's
our first I used to go to one regularly in Mexico City but for some reason I never filmed there
I do really like Mexican bakeries, yes then might not be as good at
Japanese or Korean bakeries Bakery snob but they're still beautiful hmm we now
have Whitney Houston and I have nothing in the background I will not sing it
I've got be honest I've bit into this already because but storage run out of
my phone so I'm gonna do a pretend reaction
whoo amazing it is amazing so pink on the top, bread roll and inside this by I
think is like a blueberry filling look I think it might actually have proper
blueberries in it wonderful. Whitney Houston she's smiling down on me eating
this thing anyway I'm going to shove this down my gob and I'm gonna have more food
I bet you thought we were having pizza being in that market well you're wrong
this video is like a wedding we've had something new bakery stuff we've had
something blue blueberry and now it's time for something old yes that's right
we're gonna have some tacos I know that we've had them a million times in
this channel but you know to be honest I don't really care
tacos are the best so we're let's go that's the place amigos you've
seen it on my Instagram stories you know it's time to see it on YouTube El Torito
Supremo, the supreme little bull right yeah so we're having tacos al pastor
which are quite possibly some of the best I've ever had in the whole of
Mexico, look it's a beetle!
we have the sound of al pastor being cooked in the background but this is the
sort of place that I really love you know the place that real Mexicans come to so
we have a menu down here let's take a look
as you can see massive pastor on the front so many different things you're
gonna have there are different types of tacos, Longaniza, Suadero, Al Pastor
we are having five pieces without cheese for 45 pesos so that is fantastic I'm
not gonna rattle on for ages about al pastor and how amazing is because
we've had it that million times in this channel it is amazing
what's great about this one they're also some burnt bits on the pastor
I don't normally have that and it has a little bit of difference to it
where would we be without these? So my day is coming to an end
I know what you're gonna say another video with tacos in? Bollocks to it mate, I love them, tough shit!
and you know what the thing I would say about that is just you know imagine if
there was an alternate dimension where tacos al pastor didn't exist I wouldn't want
to live there would you? okay I've just walked up this
monstrous Hill so you think Tlaxcala is average not on my watch
it's the Basilica of Our Lady of Ocotlan , Ocotlan is like a small-town part
of Tlaxcala which is a bit kind of Centro a bit further to the north but
this church is immense let's take a look Mexican churches or something else and
it's been a long time since I've shown one in a video probably since San Luis
and San Miguel but this is just as impressive. I've read this this church, the story behind it is that in Tlaxcala once
the Virgin Mary was meant to have visited because there was a plague and
she advised everyone to drink from a spring to cure them and apparently that
spring is somewhere around an awesome story by the way
oh my god pardon the blasphemy can you see this look at it look at the amount
of gold I can't believe it this is one of the most amazing churches
I've seen I'm not being funny but it is it's beautiful I'm surrounded by gold
360 degrees
so I'm back home in my Airbnb with my creepy angel statues which have been a
recurring theme on Instagram stories and on the subject of angels you know that
Basilica Church Cathedral whatever whatever you want to call it well
spectacular and I know I say that every church I go to but that's the truth I
thought was filled with awe and wonder and amazement especially that gold area
surrounded by gold I've never said that in my life it was beautiful it's
definitely one of my top three churches in Mexico or got my back so I think that
goes to show that I don't have to describe why I don't think Tlaxcala is
just average yes it may have been in the beginning but everything I've done in
this video in the time that I've been here shows that Tlaxcala does offer
absolutely everything that everywhere else in Mexico does I have been guilty
in the past of being influenced by others when they say don't go to this
place there's nothing there or you should go to this place because all
these other youtubers have gone there but you know what screw that I've got my
own mind inside of you when it comes to travel so don't be afraid to go to
places that may not be advertised in tourist brochures or places that people
don't talk about positively all the time yes lux color isn't as pretty as certain
places in Mexico isn't a place that you might feel entirely safe all the time
there are people selling drugs there are people homeless on the street or begging
for money but that's life where does that not happen okay so all in all Tlaxcala
is wonderful I've had a great time here I'm really glad I came here and
thank you to everyone here who has made sure I've had a great time and thank you
to Jesus for looking over me today and the whole time I've been here
lovely next up we are going to Apizaco actually in about two minutes I'm
going there and for the next video which is my three year travel anniversary
three years! so it's goodbye for me and it's goodbye from the creepy angel see
you next time hasta luego