what's up guys we made our way yesterday from oaxaca city to mexico city so today
is our first full day here and it starts off with the zocalo let's go
here at the zocalo the flag is so large that the people below it genuinely look like ants I
was saying to Luke earlier I think that flag is larger than our very first apartment in Dublin
right yeah absolutely um kind of dwarfs everything that we've seen since we've come to Mexico like
we were walking up kind of the main street up here towards the Zocalo and just looking
at it from like a kilometer away it just looks like colossal and now that
we're here right next to it you can really understand the true size of it it's crazy
so guys here in the center of mexico city at the zocalo as you can see it's just a massive square
and it really does take up a lot of space and there's always something happening here
it seems to be a really just buzzing Center of this city and there's always something
happening something to do and all of the little streets the narrow streets that accompany this
square there's tons of cafes restaurants and some really fancy restaurants too so
keep that in mind when you come here we are going to make our way now to the mercado la merced just
to see what mexico city's cuisine has to offer and understand the local culture a little bit better
Mexico city is known for having some of the best street food in the world so I'm incredibly excited
to check out this market in particular and right now we're actually walking through
the neighborhood of merced it is actually an entire neighborhood and let me tell you it gives
you a totally different perspective on life just walking through this neighborhood because wow it's
basically one giant market and they're selling a lot of a lot of very peculiar stuff to be honest
we're trying to we're trying to figure out what exactly the reasoning is behind all of these
dolls and a lot of the dresses and stuff we're not too sure I have the working hypothesis that this
is baby jesus but i'm not a hundred percent um sure on that I'm sure we'll figure it out though
could be like preparation for for christmas next year hopefully do it on a motorbike here
yeah guys um first impressions so far of mexico city is it's blowing our minds to be honest we
don't really know what to say because it's such a large city it's 20-21 million people is
the total urban population so wow I can't even grasp that being from like a relatively small city
in Ireland for me I just feel like literally like an ant walking around in these streets
this market here is absolutely massive you can easily get lost in all of the small alleyways here
and no matter where you look there's vegetables herbs I do see a little bit of
like clothing and kitchenware and everything and the entire air is just filled with herbs
and vegetables it's so like it's really pungent but super nice
so we got ourselves here two tacos de chamorro which I believe is a part of the leg it's kind
of this part here where they got the meat from and this is tacos de cabeza which is
the head so like it is the meat of the head of the pig basically which we never had as well
initially we wanted to try the tongue tacos but they were sold out already so I believe
they are very very good we have to come back here earlier in the morning to get the tongue
tongue taco that's a tongue twister and yeah but we are going to try the tacos
de cabeza and the tacos de chamorro. Let's do this.
Wow! So good! Ridiculously good!
guys those tacos are absolutely delicious and incredibly cheap as well mercado de la merced
is definitely a must visit when you come here to mexico city first time for us coming here
to mexico city obviously so the first impression for us is pretty crazy we don't really know what
to make of it so far and uh the situation right now guys is we're gonna buy some dates
because we actually basically we stumbled across a little bit of a
of a side market here and we found that they have these really fresh looking dates so
check it out it's only
28 pesos for how much quarto 250 gram for a quart yeah yeah quart a quarter 250 grams 28 pesos
it's incredibly cheap so yeah guys um that's actually something worth worth mentioning is
mexico city is a lot cheaper than oaxaca was we just came from oaxaca yesterday it's a lot cheaper
look at these amazing dates
yes
dates are super fresh yeah and really cheap as well so now we're gonna head back to
the center or the centro of mexico city explore a little bit more so right now
we're literally just walking away from mercado de la merced and there's plenty plenty more
markets to explore within mexico city as well so keep that in mind that's not the only one
um mercado de la merced is mainly focused from what we saw unlike fresh vegetables fruit lots
of import um sorry lots of export for mexico but it's all sold and grown
relatively local from what it seems because they as we were there and as we were shopping around
there were people literally bringing in carts of fresh vegetables so it's really nice to see and
definitely somewhere worth going and shopping if you are going to live in mexico city for sure and
so we're going to take you now on a little bit of a walk back to the center of mexico city let's go
after walking around mexico city for a while we've arrived here at the most popular bakery it seems
in mexico city Pasteleria Ideal check it out
this place is absolutely massive
lots of fresh baked goods lots of donuts lots of croissants I'm seeing a lot of stuff
a lot of stuff that I haven't seen so far while we've been here in mexico so
check this out also incredibly cheap as well check these donuts out guys wow
what a great success we ended up getting two pastries here and it only came to 25 pesos
we got a fresh bag two two pastry items we got like a chocolate lava cake thing I don't even know
what it is to be honest um and then you got kind of like a caramel cake yeah but to be honest like
we only got these two items here now and it's only the first day but we are going to leave mexico
city about 20 kg heavier I think we're just eating our way through the streets yeah yeah this place
is it's unlike anywhere that we've ever been um for food so we're definitely going to be heading
back to albania next week a lot heavier than what we arrived in mexico city that's for sure
and that's a very key point in terms of our first impressions because that's the whole point of this
video is to give you guys a first impressions and um the food the food is the best it's unbelievable
it's so so so tasty definitely number one priority when you come to mexico city is the food 100%
so guys the next stop for us is palacio de bellas artes
and it's actually right in front of us here check this beautiful building out
just sitting here and looking at the building and this absolutely beautiful square makes us
feel a little bit like we are back in madrid and I guess that's obviously for a reason but
it is very very beautiful with the light stone and this unbelievable on ombre type of roof so palacio
de bellas artes is essentially a large marble art museum that's packed full of different artworks
from different famous mexican muralists now super interesting it's only 75 pesos for a ticket
to go in and access this amazing looking museum so we might have to check it out soon
guys this is super interesting we're actually standing now in front of the sears um a large
sears building that actually faces palacio de bellas artes and apparently on top of this sears
you have a beautiful rooftop cafe where you can have a view over mexico city so that's what we're
gonna do follow us along as we head into a sears make our way to the top and we'll check this view
out guys hopefully we can get a nice cup of coffee tea for naomi she's off the coffee and check this
view out all right guys so we're inside the sears they wouldn't let us go up in the elevator so they
because they want us to basically walk through the store itself so that's what we're doing
we're just checking the store out here's naomi having a fun time on the elevator checking out
all of the clothes checking out all the perfume and we're just here for the view guys so shopping
is totally my thing yeah shopping funnily enough actually a fun fact about me and naomi
I'm more of a shopper than she is so keep that on the DL we're gonna head up to the
rooftop now guys I think we're like another three or four floors away I want to say 20.
we made it all the way up here and they have a super cute cafe on top of the Sears
for me it's Sears not Sears and you have the amazing view over mexico city check it out
over there on the rooftop I think there's even a man working on that hombre
luke says it's spiderman
so guys all in all our first impressions and our first day here in mexico city we love this
place this place is absolutely massive so we do have a lot more videos coming your way we're
going to be here for a full week so expect a lot more content my name is luke my name is Naomi
we're NaLu Adventures and I'll see you guys in the next video thanks for watching peace