Buenos dias. Buenos dias amigos! We are here in front of Catedral Guadalajara or
Guadalajara Cathedral, and today, what are you doing? We are going to, what we
were told, is the largest indoor market in North America. And we couldn't exactly
find anything to back this up, or we didn't find anything to disprove it
either. So if that's not correct let us know in the comments.
But we're rolling with it and we will show you exactly why we believe that it
could potentially be the largest, most grand, fantastic indoor market of
everything that you could ever possibly want to buy in the world. That is San
Juan de Dios also known as mercado Libertad. Without further ado, let's hit it.
Vamanos.
The unfortunate thing is there isn't really a bird's-eye view from any point inside
the market where you can see the giganticness. That's not a word, but I'm making it a word.
Of this mercado. We're gonna do our best to show you every nook and cranny
of this place. This pan right here is only a tiny portion of the market, it
goes forever that way, and forever that way. And it's like how many levels? 3, 4 levels, depending on where you're at.
We were just in there for 20 or 30 minutes walking around. We got lost several times and
finally just made our way out to the outside. Yeah, it gets a little overwhelming after a while so
you kind of have to see if you can find an out, get out and. While we were in there, we bought
Coco on DVD. It was ten pesos. I'm sure it's a legit, authorized copy. Yeah, 10 pesos, that means legit.
We're hoping to watch it in Spanish and see how much we can understand.
Okay, we're going back in.
We just found our way outside again only to realize that we are in middle of this
whole thing. So there's this open area. This is crazy, there's a huge portion (of the market) on each side of where we're at right now.
[Birds chirping loudly]
These are so cute!
Pigeons. Are the homing pigeons?
Little tiny Guinea pigs!
For the first time ever, we just saw sugarcane being pressed
into juice, which is honestly the coolest thing. He put it through a number of
times to get all the juice out, and they let us try a little bit. All I can say is
that it kind of tastes like sweet grass maybe? Not just pure sweetness either, it
has it an essence of. I can't put my finger on how to describe it. Plant. We're not doing a very good job of this, but here we are, back in the middle again trying
to get a breather, because after a while it does get a little taxing to be told
that people are at your service, at your service, at your service.
[Vendors speaking in Spanish]
And you're just kind of trying to look around. But, what can you find here?
You can find speakers, headphones, electronics of all kinds, birds, shoes, rabbits, hats, Guinea pigs,
saddles, guitars, fruit, food, everything. And I'm sure if you couldn't find it you would
ask someone and they would find it for you. This market is just huge huge huge huge.
We got lost so many times. Also thank you to our subscriber who told me to say
"Puedo probar" to say "Puedo probar" instead of "Puedo tratar." Except in my dumb case
I said "Puedo poner." And they were confused, and I was
confused. So she said, instead of "Can I taste?" or "Can I try?" she said "can I put?"
I'll get it eventually. Just when you think you've seen it all, you walk outside, you see the light of
day, turn around the corner, walk down another aisle, there's a whole new world of the market that
you've never seen before. And it keeps happening. It keeps happening. It's uncanny.
Now, we are going to venture to the massive food section.
Alright. Well we tried. We tried to see everything. We tried to go up and down every single aisle. It wasn't going to happen. It was too big.
It would take you days to do that. And we're getting a little
hungry, so although we'd love to eat something here, a lot of the places that were super
popular, and delicious, and really really cheap, also had completely full chairs, not
a chair to be had. If you stand around waiting for them, everyone swarms you to
try to get you to go to their food stand. So we're gonna go for a little more low-key
atmosphere and try to find something else. Now that we're, outside, on a bench,
settled down, what did you think of that experience? Wow! There's so much to see,
and smell, and do, and taste, it's kind of like sensory overload. Where you don't
know where to look, or where to go next, or what aisle to turn down. Or what to film.
Oh yeah or what we should have filmed for you guys. So hopefully you did enjoy
those little bits and pieces that we showed you of that gigantic
mercado. It really was hard to get what might be considered the best parts
because really there's just so much there. We could probably go back there
every day for the next three weeks and see new things every single time. What
did you think? I knew the place was huge but it's way bigger than I thought it
was going in there last time. You're totally right. I didn't have any idea how far it went on. When you think
you've gotten to the end of one section it just keeps going to the next section,
to the next section. And they're kind of partitioned, which is why we said we
couldn't really get a bird's-eye view. It's partitioned by these ramps going up
and down to the various levels. And I don't even know to what extent they go
in what direction or the other direction, because, even when we thought that we had
gone the full length of it, we came out and turned a corner, and there was just
like another whole building. How did that. I mean. It's like an IKEA, they want you
to get lost. Except, at least IKEA has arrows, it's like walk
this way. No arrows, just people directing you into their shop hoping you'll buy something. Anyway, if you like this video, I
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