Welcome to Eat Baila Travel this is Jenny and I'm Kevin. Today we're exploring the city of Guanajuato
because we're only making a quick pit stop before we head to Leon Guanajuato.
We have to explore the city and we're doing it in a very vlog fashion. We have 24 hours to
explore this city as much as possible we really don't know what we're gonna experience today.
So you'll be experiencing this vlog as we experience the city so let's get started!
We were told that there are over three thousand six hundred callejones in Guanajuato.
It looks really crowded but it's a beautiful chaos like you look at this and you think
"Where are the streets?" and then you remember oh right it's the city of alleys.
My first impressions of Guanajuato is that it reminds me a lot of Rio de Janeiro in Brasil, mostly because of the colorful
stacked up houses, the favelas, seeing it from the top of the Monumento al Pipila that's my first
impression of Guanajuato we're gonna go down there and check it out because a lot of people say that
it looks like Italy but we have to find out for ourselves.
Breakfast... now i'm ready to start the today.
We took a taxi up from bus station. Because we're very short on time normally we will be up for
a hike but in this situation we got to make the best of our time. But it's beautiful up here it's
probably the best view of Guanajuato. It's very colorful we loved it it's very impressive
but now we're gonna head down to the downtown centro.
Since we couldn't hike up we're just gonna take the hike down right Jenny?
Chile got stuck in my throat! Bad timing!
Here Guanajuato is just full of alleys so far I mean we're taking
one down from el Monumento al Pipila. It's kind of dangerous to vlog on but
that's why Gopros are awesome.
This is such a decline and my toes are like this inside my shoes
Left or right? They're both going down i don't know she'll go left she'll go right?
I don't even know where we're going. hi jenny
BYE JENNY!
I just chose the right side because it's way more colorful and prettier colors
There's so many alleys if you have any issues with picking or having options
It's going to be a tough city for you. That was quick we should have hiked it up.
How long was the hike down? I don't know we were slow, maybe like 10 minutes.
We made it down to the city center now we're going to explore. I think we made it already Jenny is having a lot of
technical difficulties today. First, she chokes on chile and glasses get all messed up in her hair.
You alright? Yeah! Its not Guanajuatos fault just saying!
We're here to check out the famous "Callejon del Beso"
The kissing alley there's a legend that says that if you kiss in this alley,
you'll have good luck for 7 years.
This alley is famous for its love story many years ago, a poor miner and a young lady from a wealthy
family fell in love after many nights chatting from their balconies the balconies were close
enough together that they could kiss in the narrow alley between their buildings
without having to leave their rooms they would meet on their balconies every night in secret
longing to be together.
Sorry to rain on your parade but this story doesn't end.
The young lady's father disapproved of her relationship with a miner and when he found out she was secretly
dating him from the balcony. He went crazy and told his daughter that if he caught her with him again
he would kill her as his only daughter she didn't take this threat seriously. One night when the
couple sneaked a kiss on the balcony her father caught them and stabbed his daughter to death
A tragic love story behind this urban legend, they say that couples who visit Guanajuato must kiss
in this alley for 15 years of good luck and if you don't you get seven years of bad luck.
Out of respect for local superstitions we made sure to go for a nice makeout session
It's so cool that they have subterranean streets for cars and traffic.
We heard though by the taxi driver that when it rains too much they get flooded.
So cars can't get through but we so far we haven't seen so many cars in the center.
I wonder if the like reason there are subterranean streets in the first place
because it's so mountainous right there levels like up middle lower and in order to get from one
street to another quickly they have tunnels underground streets it's pretty cool.
It smells like Rome.
This has to be a scene like in a bad cave or something
This would be a really cool movie scene.
Gotham might of messed up they should have filmed the batman movie here instead of Chicago.
NAH!
I am just waiting for the Ninja Turtles to pop out!
We didn't bring pizza! Maybe they do live here they sell a lot of pizza here!
Damn this is dope! Its Beautiful
I'm just so impressed!
That's whats magical about the city you turn you have a alley.
You go down there's another alley but leads you to a subterranean street.
So how to we get back up?
Oh I found a ninja turtle! Oh no it's Jenny!
HEY!
Oh we're back to that beautiful street. oh it's that beautiful plaza, what's it called? Plaza Baratillo
Doesn't that look like a painting that you see like in an italian restaurant?
Oh you mean like this this scene right here? yeah, look at it colors fountain small plaza, for real!
The views from all these alleys are so impressive so every time you turn a corner there's a really
cool new view. Awesome! I'm so impressed i was not expecting this, people would say Guanajuato is cool.
But it was never a place that i had ever really thought about visiting.
So thanks to our friends Vanessa and Will who are getting married this weekend that we made room to come here.
Which is why we're breezing through our visit in San Miguel Allende in Guanajuato
We just you know we weren't planning on coming here originally but we're so glad that we did.
Check out this other corner, Jardin Union has stole my heart. I love it here the theatre the
music just look at this beautiful shade that these trees provide.
Let's walk through it
El Kiosco that is precious, la fuente and the music
Like there's parks everywhere in Mexico. Like the one in Merida is beautiful too
But i love the shade that these trees create just look at it. The ambience, it sets of tone you know?
Very romantic, I was not expecting the city to be so romantic
We're just taking a quick little break we're right across from Teatro Juarez. It's been cloudy
but the temperature here yeah something about the dry heat it wears you down yeah it's pretty hot.
And i'm sure it's also the altitude it's pretty yeah
Just gonna take a little break. This is cute, what is this where did you get this?
Uhhhhhhh... Tuve que conquistar una muchacha ayer para me lo dieran.
That wasn't me!
Stay tuned so you can find out how i got this cool ribbon.
So, many of you might know that my professional background is in higher-Ed.
Admissions and recruitment and the nerd in me could not resist visiting the University of Guanajuato.
We should've came dressed really nice maybe we could have crashed some of these graduation parties.
Just walk in there like hey look jenny and kevin for me by the travel
And I think that we might have walked the entire centro. l yeah it looks bigger on the map but if
you're a walker you can walk through the city pretty quickly
yeah especially when you see it from the monument
Especially when you see it from above the monument it looks like a humongous city but not all of that
You see is the downtown area but i think the downtown area centro we already watched it all
and it's been an hour uh we're not fast walkers and we didn't use a gps we just walked around see
what we explored and we've come out to the same places we're going to check our google maps to see
if we made it how's the bookstore
i'm hungry
Because we're here in such a short amount of time we asked our friends
for recommendation shout out to Alberto for this recommendation.
Restaurante Truco 7 he recommended that the enchiladas are good here.
We ordered the enchiladas mineras because that is the main dish from Guanajuato.
Which translates to the mining Enchiladas because Guanajuato is known as a mining city.
These are tortillas filled with cheese and topped with cream, potatoes, carrots
and dipped they are dipped in a salsa de chile guajillo.
This cheese is really good it's like a soft almost like ricotta kind of cheese but this is guess
But this is queso de rancho
which i feel like cheese all over Mexico
tastes different everywhere. so trying the same dish in different places is always a treat
So far the cheese that we've had in the state of Guanajuato like in San Miguel de Allende
around the city of guanajuato this cheese is
really really good like surprisingly really good i don't know what it is we had pizza last night
and we asked them what kind of cheese it was mozzarella but they specifically got it from
an italian creamery in san miguel so i think it has a lot to do with the cow what it eats
maybe it's happier in mexico so it produces better milk and better cheese
I don't know but its good!
walking around guanajuato city you will see plenty of guys dressed like this guy
selling tickets to something called a Callejoneada
if you're thinking of skipping this don't the cajones are a comical musical walkthrough of the
city of guanajuato we won't give much away because we want you to experience for yourself someday
but the serenata part was our favorite and that's how Kevin earned his ribbon
Costal Cultura Cafetera is an artsy cafe restaurant with amazing mixologists we highly recommend this place
to have a nice drink and to enjoy one of the most amazing views of the city
oh yeah
wow beautiful buildings
one of the most beautiful things from traveling is finding out just new cultures new places
getting to know new people i feel very fortunate to be able to be wowed in every place that we go
it doesn't matter if it's a ranchito a big city a metropolitan city and most importantly to be with
my jenny we're so happy to be here thank you guys for joining us and exploring guanajuato
with us we hope that you've enjoyed this visit um we've only been here one day and we've enjoyed it
so much that we're definitely gonna be coming back and if this wasn't on your list before we
highly highly recommend that you put it on there so i guess that brings us to the end yeah right
thanks for watching guys take care and hopefully we'll see you next time