Are we in Ajijic again? What!!! We're in Ajijic!
Psych, not really. In all the hullabaloo of having to go
to the border, we didn't get this video up. So here it is now, sorry for the delay.
And if you want to stick around to the end, we included some helpful things you
might want to know in case you're interested in doing this.
By the way, real quick, a bunch of people were asking what the heck happened
Laska while we went on this border run and we totally forgot to mention that. We
had a friend watch her. Shoutout to Abril! Thank you so much! We didn't want
Laska to go through all the stress of having to do all that traveling in such
a short amount of time. Plus we didn't want the extra hassle at the border
trying to get her cross back into the US. That too. [Laughter]
Lots of issues would pop up if we didn't just leave her here. Yeah, there were just a bunch of
things, so we thought it was best to just leave her with friend, and if you want to
see Laska's reaction once we got home and picked her up, super super cute! We
posted a video of that on our Instagram, and speaking of Instagram, we left you
guys a little trail of clues in case you're curious where we're gonna be
moving next. So you better capitalize on that and go digging. And finally, according
to my dad and a few other people, in our last video we titled it why did we go to
the border. We thought we explained that well enough through what happened, but we
never explicitly said what we were doing. So we were going to the border because
our visas were expiring, the car is attached to the visa, so that import
permit would be expiring as well. Basically we had to go get new visas and
deal with the car permits to make sure we're driving legally. Good morning Tangerineys!
We're super excited to be somewhere
today that is like, I think kind of a staple activity or like a staple thing
that you have to do while you're in Ajijic. Nearby, in the town of San Juan Cosala,
there's these natural hot springs and there's been some spas built on top of
them. So this one in particular, it has a bunch of different thermal pools. We come
inside here there is a waiting area. We can lay in hammocks while we wait and
then there's a couple pools filled with different botanicals / healing-type
elements like flowers, apple cider vinegar, coffee, mud, so we might be
getting dirty today but I'm hoping this is a super relaxing experience. To get in
the main doors it's 280 pesos per adult. This is the VIP
section and they have a couple different options that have varying prices to
experience these other tubs.
Okay, so we're here in the first pool and this one has apple cider vinegar in it.
I would expect it to smell like apple cider vinegar but it doesn't smell like anything to me.
Yeah. Very hot. I can't smell anything.
It's about your average hot tub temperature.
They came over here with a pitcher of tea and served us some té caliente. Hot tea.
So sitting in a hot bath, getting some hot tea.
It's hot hot hot!
And it says up here that some of the benefits are for circulation, uhhh, all of this is in Spanish.
Hahaha, intestinal benefits, digestive, it's good for your skin.
Vitamins for your skin.
We're going to enjoy!
So at each station they have stands like this to put your bag and towels and then
everyone just leaves their shoes. We just got out of the first tub and then you
go run through the showers quickly, and now we're in the second tub. In between
stations they have a place where you can get more water or refill on your tea.
Or like what I got was a fruit infused water. Where are we now?
We are now in a floral bath with petals of flowers. This is for
stress, depression, skin. I think all of these are to help your skin. We're feeling the heat!
This one is a little cooler than the last one. Can you smell any
floral smell in here at all? I don't think so. There's flowers like touching you pretty much
the whole time. We have now moved on to the third bath and this was after we, of
course, went through the showers again to wash off all the flower petals that were
tickling us in their whole time. And this one we gather is somewhat of like a
sea salt with magnesium and algae we think it was like. And it has like a bluish tint to the
water. I gather it's somewhat like epsom salts but maybe with sea algae or kelp or
something like that. It does have like kind of a seaweed maybe? Yeah.
Taste, I mean smell. I didn't taste it. It has a light smell to it. Kind of a refreshing smell like. So
at this point, if we had the basic pass for this VIP area, we would
have been done. But now, where are we?
We are in a coffee bath. So this one says it has benefits for neurological transmission, it has antioxidants.
And other benefits.
Diuretic benefits? I don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing?
[Laughter] It has potassium, magnesium. This one smells so good!
So this tub used to be chocolate.
So this seems like, oh we've been here once before.
It feels like a completely different experience! Still a good one but I think 2 of the tubs have changed, like this one is red wine now.
I'm looking around for whether they're going to bring me the glass of red wine. But, I don't think that's going to happen. [Laughter]
What do you think, can we drink it? Nope, I'm not going to drink this. [Laughter]
But you can see the red color here.
Do you smell the wine smell? A little bit.
And now, we cover ourselves in mud!
This is the dirty part! [Laughter]
It feels so weird when it's drying. [Laughter] Cracking everywhere.
Smile for me. [Laughter] I think I'm gonna go mud my hair.
Oh, you are mud!
You're a mud man!
[Laughter] That was a good one!
It's a mud pun.
We've got a weird request here. Mudding my hair.
I don't know how to get through your hair! I don't think you're supposed to do this! [Laughter]
Oh yeah! Is this doing it? Scratch my head!
[Laughter] Your hair is going to be a mess!
I love this one, it feels so good!
It says this is a cold tub, but you know it's a
really nice temperature. Yeah, I feel like after the mud all my skin feels so soft!
My face is like Ahhh! After the mud we took a shower and now we're in this
what's called this like cold bath, and after this we're going to be doing like
these inhaling respirating thingys. I don't know what they are exactly. One said facial, one said for respiration.
So after that, we have the saunas, those breathing things, and then we have reflexology.
I'm excited for that one, and scared!
And last but not least, we are going to step on this reflexology path which is rocks
that I imagine are placed in some special way. Maybe they're not, maybe you
just pokes all your feet reflexes or something, but either way, here we go!
It seems like it's walking on a road and I don't know this is doing anything for me
except hurting me. [Laughter] I've had reflexology sessions before where some of it is like OW, OW, OW
And then I fall asleep halfway through. [Laughter] So if I fall asleep, wake me up!
I did notice that it started with bigger rocks and then got to smaller ones. I bet that's because it's like
eventually getting to more, pressure points? Pressure points. Or more reflexology
points, whatever they call it? Yeah, whatever the technical name is.
And it seems to be hurting less the more I do it. Yeah. Tell you what, after that I, just like the last
time, I feel super relaxed! How about you? Yeah I was trying to think of any other
experience that I've had that's, that makes me this relaxed, and I don't even
think the best massage that I've ever had
put me in this type of Zen mode. And also they offer massages, so I think if
there's anything better than this, it'd be this and a massage. So we came
here for this VIP area so that we could get access to all of these tubs, the mud,
the chocolate, no not the, the coffee, the flowers, everything. Red wine. The sauna, the
natural saunas, but then above is kind of more of a public and kid-friendly family
friendly area where you can bring food in. There's tables everywhere. They also have reasonably priced
food and drinks there. Play games if you want. We played Mexican train last time.
It's kind of a staple here in Ajijic. [Laughter] We'll show you a little bit about on the way
out. So both times we've come, we've come to the VIP area where you have these
specialty spas. And I don't know about you but that's what I would pick every
time. Oh, absolutely! It's great out here with the slides for kids,
food, drinks. You can bring your own food and all that but there's something about
those spas that feels like you're floating away on a cloud. And it's much more
tranquil back there, far fewer people, it's really nice but there's all these
other pools up here and this is pretty cool too like big waterslide right over
here. If they have this waterpark and like the spa in the US, the food they serve
there would be so expensive. But here it's about what you would pay anywhere.
Entrée is like 50 pesos to what, 70 pesos? I saw some that we're up
to 110. Oh, for shrimp I think it was. Okay.
They have nieve de garrafa, snacks ,canned food, you can get a two liter of
soda for 25 to 30 pesos here. So yeah, really reasonable. Although you could
bring your own food, I think it's not too terrible to buy it here. You're not
getting gouged like in a lot of places. I think they price it well for a reason
so people do buy it here. Yeah, encouraged to buy it here instead of
bringing it. So this is the spa at Hotel Balneario, we're gonna put all that
information below, and I mispronounced it earlier, it's in San Juan Cosalá not
San Juan Cosala. Oops! We're walking to our car right now and I
do believe part of this parking lot you have to pay, I'm not sure, maybe like
fifty pesos, yes. Fifty pesos for the day, the other part
of the parking lot is completely free. So when you get here they're probably going
to try to direct you to the paid parking but if you turn right that's where the
free stuff is. As we promised, we will leave you with some tips if you come do
this make sure to bring a towel, wear flip-flops,
don't bring valuables. They do have lockers available for a small fee
something like 20 pesos depending on whether you get the small one or the big
one, but I don't think the big one is that big. It's not big enough to put our
backpack in. For adults it's 280 pesos to get in it's only a
hundred and fifty more to get the full VIP
experience. If I were to do this again, every single time I would go for that
extra 150 because it just adds so so much to the experience! Oh my gosh, you're
all dirty! What did you even do? Frolicking through the bushes.
Of course. How cool is
this spa you guys? Seriously, we can't wait to go back! If you liked this video
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