There's a lot of mystery behind this. How dare you! [Laughter] I, to be honest, and shocked that
they could still look like this.
What's up Tangerineys! I'm Maddie, and I'm Jordan,
and we are Tangerine Travels! In front of our Tangerine Travelmobile, Lizzy
today, because we are going on a day trip, we are going to see some alien-like
structures! [Laughter] You can't even say that without laughing.
The only circular alien structures in the whole world!
Right outside of Guadalajara. What are you talking about? All alien structures
circular. Crop circles. Like, come on, haven't you been watching your YouTube videos
on crop circles? Yeah, extensively. [Laughter]
It's recording but I don't know what that was about. No, that was weird.
Alien activity! [Laughter] Alright, this is
about an hour away from Guadalajara, so we are hitting the road.
Hey guys, so we
just made it to Guachimontones, that's where we. The alien-like
structures here in Mexico. Not just alien like, they were built by aliens. Okay, build by aliens.
Maybe. [Laughter] Or an ancient civilization.
We just pulled into the parking lot and usually
there looks like there is a 30 peso fee for each person to get in, but today he
said we were cool and we don't have to pay anything, or maybe never cost
anything, we're not really sure.
We're going to roll with it! These are going to be the world's only
circular pyramids, built by aliens.
Okay, we'll drop it. [Laughter]
We're pretty excited to see them. We hear they're like
pretty big steps up from each one, so do you think we'll be able to do some
climbing? Maybe in these jeans, I need to stretch it out.
Usually if I'm wearing shorts, I'd have all the movement I ever need. Also, I've never
seen pyramids before. Ever. In person. Only in person. I've seen them [Laughter]
I've seen them on TV and like documentaries, and before coming to
Mexico, I thought the only pyramids that really existed we're in Egypt, how embarrasing. So right
now, we're going to this little store that's by the parking lot. After we grab
some water here, I think there's a bit of a hike up to the pyramids. Ay, no! So, I had
the idea that we were going to drive up here, and then the pyramids would be
right here. But, that's not the case. Now we're walking up the steep hill. Backwards for some reason. I had
that exact idea too. Like you would just drive up and see them they'd be right
there. And I'm regretting this wearing pants
decision. Me too! Somebody have scissors?
It was actually kind of cold back in
Guadalajara. Yeah, this morning we went to breakfast and promptly went right back
home to get jackets. Are you expecting rain?
I'm expecting to get sunburnt like yesterday. [Laughter]
So here we are guys, Guachimontones.
Let me try to see if I can get up these steps.
I'm at the top! I think he thinks he's funny, you should just go along with it.
So this little part here was built 500 BC. It's hard to believe that this is
pretty old. Would you have guessed? I would have guessed this was like 100
years old or something. Yeah, to be honest I was thinking they built this like so
before you would get to the actual pyramids this to just be something where
you would stop and rest or something. And this area was actually designed for
playing soccer games, so it's a little bit it's built into the ground.
I guess maybe so the ball doesn't go anywhere, and they sort of have this mound on one side so
not exactly sure what type of soccer game they were playing. It's similar to soccer, it's not
technically soccer but it's like some prehistoric ball game. Technical term.
Alright, so we just walked all the way up here, and as far as the walk goes, it's
really not that bad, or like walk-hike. It's completely paved the whole way so
I'm wearing of course my boots with a little bit of a heel on them.
Why do you always wear those when you go hiking? I didn't
know it was going to be a hike. Hiking the Mazatlán lighthouse.
Anyway [Laughter], bad life decisions. But yeah, that
wasn't bad. We're up here now front of all of these pyramids. If I'm
being completely honest, I was sort of imagining them being a lot bigger than
they are, but they're still super super cool and well-maintained! I'm surprised.
And I was picturing them a little bit bigger too, but, and I was just picturing
a couple of pyramids, but there's all these other little structures around too.
So we'll have to read some of the signs and see what that's all about. As far as
we, the information we know so far, we know that it's imagined that they built
them, or it's proposed that they built them for the god of wind, and that atop
each of these pyramids they would have a pole for the Volador ceremonies, which
if you've been in Mexico, you may have seen these before. They happen in just
about every city where the guys climb up to the top of the pole, and then they're
swinging around it. So apparently that is what would happen at the top of each of
these pyramids. So this is a protected site here, and actually the whole region
is. This is a tequila region where tequila is made. Apparently they've had
problems with looting here. What do you think they steal? Like rocks? Or?
Serious question. Yeah I know, serious question though, because like with the pyramids of
Egypt those were plated in gold right? or marble? Some valuable material. But I'm
not sure if these were plated in something? If they buried something here
that was valuable treasure or something? And then behind us here is this
spectacular view. You can see the town down there, the lake over here, it's
absolutely gorgeous! If we'd known about it or thought about
it a little bit more, this would be the perfect place to bring like a nice
picnic blanket, and some snacks, and sandwiches, maybe some wine, tequila,
something like that. [Laughter] Yeah really, this is the perfect place to
lay out a blanket and have a little something to eat.
And there's a nice breeze up here. Gorgeous view.
It gets a little bit cooler. So there's a couple structures up here that have
ropes around them and you're not supposed to go up on those. There's the
big one over here, and then there's a smaller circular pyramid over here.
Surrounded by ropes, and then there's probably a dozen other different ones
around here. Surrounding it, yeah. As if this was a little city or something, all
centered around this giant pyramid. So surrounding this biggest
circular pyramid in the middle, there's all these platforms that are rectangular
in shape. And then as we're walking away from the circular pyramid, there is a
bunch of other smaller structures surrounded by a lot of trees and such. So
they have some signs around telling you what some of the stuff is, but it's
mostly unknown. They don't know who named it. They're unsure who built it. There's a
lot of mystery behind this. As I'm walking around here, I'm just picturing
like what this small city may have looked like, and it's pretty amazing that
this was built so long ago, and it remains in such great shape. To the best
of my knowledge, these haven't been restored, and they look like they're
hardly falling apart at all which is shocking! We're learning that there's
actually multiple other pyramids that just haven't been uncovered yet, which
seems to be the case in other parts of Mexico as well where there's just not
the funding to dig them up because it's too expensive and such a time-consuming,
tedious process. Like this one that's behind me right now. And if you listen
carefully, you can hear alien sounds up there. They could also be cicadas.
So we're up at the top of what we think is an unexcavated, undiscovered pyramid, and
which gives you a really cool view of the largest one over there. And you can
see pretty much an even greater view of the lake and the town down there. So most
of them, like Jordan said early, are roped off. But this one you can climb up and
sort of a lookout to everything.
How to get the best photo.
[Laughter] Okay, got it.
Oh my gosh! [Laughter] So you can't balance
there, so I had to hold myself up.
Crazy.
We had to get this on film in case I ate shit
on the way down, which was a strong possibility. Considering the shoes.
Considering the human.
How dare you!
[Laughter] So we've been here for a little while now,
walked around. I was gonna call it the property. The
area. And it's a lot more expensive than I was expecting, what do you think? Yes so
they definitely weren't as big. These pyramids are, this one is the biggest,
it's not as big as I was thinking. But as far as the whole, where all of these
structures are, yeah it's it's way bigger. The whole area is bigger than I thought.
And it goes farther beyond what they've obviously uncovered. So, it really does
make you wonder, what did this city used to look like? or how is it set up?
What do they do here? Does this make you wanna be an archaeologist? No. I think that'd
be pretty cool actually, studying old civilizations. Well, that's
if you find them, if you find what you're looking for. There's archaeological sites
where they're digging, and digging, and digging for years, and they find nothing.
Maybe like a small artifact. I also must say that I love all the lizards around
here. They're like big, striped, super fast, you will never be able to catch them, I've
tried. [Laughter] But they're everywhere! And also watch out for all the red fire ants. They're
also everywhere, huge and scary! So here we have this smaller circular pyramid
surrounded by these platforms that have been uncovered, and then over here we
have. Well, Jordan is getting attacked by ants and I have to finish up here, but
we're looking at this smaller but also large, circular pyramid. And then
surrounding it there's all these platforms, but there's a few mounds in
around the circle as well but they're just unexcavated, excavated, excavated,
escolar a, escalera, escalated. Just gonna make up words here. [Laughter]
But it's pretty interesting to look at these. I, to be honest, am shocked that
they could still look like this when the ones behind me are just mounds of dirt.
So it does make me wonder if they were restored in some way, or if they really
have stood the test of time. So now that we've gone on this adventure here's the
things we think you should know. One, shoes are important, wear good shoes
that you can walk around in because the the grounds are pretty big and then
there is kind of a little bit of a hike to get up there.
Don't worry heels like Maddie. Yeah don't do that. Also, we would recommend wearing
sunscreen and bringing, or bringing an umbrella or both, because it is pretty sunny and
there's not a whole lot of shade. Also, you'll probably want to have some type
of cash with you in case they are charging the 30 ish pesos that it looks like
they normally do. You can buy some water on site, it's 15 pesos for a liter, and
there aren't a whole lot of places you can buy snacks around, so be sure to pick
up any snacks, or any food you want before you come. And do consider bringing
a blanket and having a picnic up there, we think that would be a really
fun thing. Seriously, that's something I would definitely go back and do again
because it's just so nice and peaceful up there, and you get to look down at the
town. It's just beautiful. Do you think you would recommend this to
someone? Yeah, I'd recommend it. Just be careful and don't get abducted from
miniature aliens. Miniature aliens, they're miniature now.
[Laughter]
Laska says hello.
What's that?
Sorry, what?
Laska, tell the people would you recommend it? Mom I didn't even go, you're
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