- Hello, Tangerine is from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
I continue on my quest to hit up every one
of my favorite spots from my last trip to PV,
and there were a lot of them.
But I'm also trying to try some new stuff,
but this time, got a repeat place,
it's called The Pancake House.
And from what I remember, this was one of the better
value places that I went to.
And I remember it being very good as well.
As it turns out, one big problem with The Pancake House
is their menu is so huge, I can't decide what to get.
I want everything.
Should I get like a fruit plate, Eggs Benedict,
some other eggs, waffles, I don't know.
I have ordered so much stuff here, it's almost embarrassing.
I got a large, fresh-squeezed orange juice
that I've already drank like half of it,
and pour into another glass.
So it was much bigger than this for 35 pesos.
I got a smoothie with papaya and banana for 40 pesos,
and then I ordered two plates of food for breakfast.
And I'll show you in a moment.
And they also brought out some salsas and a plate of bread
that I was not expecting, because I didn't order that.
I am so excited for this breakfast.
I got peanut butter and banana pancakes for 75 pesos,
but I couldn't decide what I wanted.
So to not feel like such a fatty, like,
getting these peanut butter pancakes,
I also got a big ol' plate of fruit for 68 pesos, and then
I added cottage cheese to that for an additional 18.
That was so good, but I'm feeling defeated now
because half of my pancakes are still here
and a bunch of fruit is still on the plate
and I cannot eat anymore at all.
I'm so stuffed.
Very good, highly recommended.
Pancake House, love it just as much as I did the last time.
(lively tropical music)
This morning, I'm hiking up to one of a few Miradors
in Puerto Vallarta.
And right now we're at the very beginning of many,
many stairs to come.
So I need to save my breath so I can make it up to the top.
(jaunty music)
I'm so out of breath,
but I'm gonna try to get this out.
There's someone here who has a for sale sign
at their house, saying they sell Gatorade and Coke
and water for dummies like us, who decided to walk
up here instead of Uber.
(crunching on sidewalk) (laughing)
Okay, I'm not only sweaty, but this is also slippery.
I'm being shown to the Mirador by someone who lives here.
And I was just informed that this was her first time
ever going. (muffled laughter)
- I'm a good tour guide, I take you to places,
what's the problem?
(jaunty music)
I was walking up the hill more,
feeling completely exhausted.
And I was like, oh, maybe I should go back
and get some of that Gatorade they were selling.
But now here's another sign selling bottles of water,
another bottled water, like Agua Frescas
and things like that.
So they're very enterprising around here.
They know the right when you're going to be
regretting a decision you made earlier
by not bringing liquids with you.
So many stairs. (jaunty music)
After many, many more stairs,
I was very excited to see that there's a tram here.
That's going to conveniently take me the rest of the way.
But then I was informed that it's not working
and that it hasn't been for awhile.
They already have the tracks and everything and the cables.
Why? Just why?
I wanna see the view, but I don't want to work to get there.
Okay, I'm not to the top, but I found a good
enough mirador, so I think I'm just going to stay here.
Nice views, good, cool. (laughing)
I'm kidding, I'm going to try to keep pushing,
but, I mean, where I live in Queretaro,
it's over 6,000 feet of elevation, but it's flat.
I'm not used to hills, however, I think being acclimatized
to the higher altitude now that I'm at the sea level
is making this a little bit easier than it otherwise
would have been, but it's still hard.
Oh, we're almost there.
Here's some more stairs.
We're practically at the mirador, it's right up there.
But they designed this where you have to go downstairs
and then go back up.
Who designed this? (breathing heavily)
Can we just keep going up?
Now waste all the work I already did.
After many trips of sweat and much regret,
we finally made it to the top and it is beautiful up here.
Awesome views, but what I like more is the breeze
that's drying off all my sweat,
but also my towel that I brought with helped to dry.
Everybody wants a home with a view,
but looking around out here,
I see that you really have to pay for the view
in effort to get up here.
Like there's some really nice places up on these hills,
but man, is it a long walk or steep drive up here.
You can really see how high up we are because there's
this huge catrina, this Dia de Muertos decoration
out on the boardwalk there, and from here, it looks tiny.
(peaceful music)
This tile work on these stairs is so pretty.
I've noticed a lot of stuff like this around the city
and businesses and stuff can actually sponsor
certain areas for the beautification of that area.
And there's many, many places I've seen around
Vallarta that are similar to this.
(lively tropical music)
- Gracias
You know, I never liked coconut water
until I got one fresh and now I'm in love with it.
It's so sweet, so good and it has all
the nutrients and vitamins there.
Oh, it's so refreshing on a hot day.
And I don't know if I'm gonna be by the person
who sold it to me, but whenever you buy coconut,
like after you drink all the water, you can take it
back to the same person who you bought it from,
and they'll chop it up for you and give you the coconut
meat inside there.
And something that makes his coconuts way better
is that they're cold.
They put them in a cooler and they make all the water
inside nice and cold before they serve it to you.
Gosh, I missed these.
(latin dance music)
Tonight I'm being shown around by a local to her
favorite spots and Taqueria Las Gueras one of them.
I got a shrimp taco, adobado taco and a pastor taco.
And they're like, I forget 15, 20 pesos,
somewhere in that range.
So I'm ready to dig in because apparently
they're really good.
And since we've been here,
there've been three different food tours.
At Taqueria Las Gueras, I was kind of disappointed
that I wasn't able to try what's supposed to be the best
thing on the menu, the birria quesadilla.
They were all out of birria, unfortunately.
I just had to go with the tacos and they were pretty
good, I'm also told that they're not as good
when they're so busy with food tours.
So that might've caused a little bit of an issue tonight.
(lively tropical music)
(speaking in foreign language)
This morning, I at Coco's kitchen,
this was recommended to me by a few people.
And honestly, I thought I had never been here before,
but as soon as I arrived, I'm like, oh yeah,
this place looks familiar.
One thing I noticed, I really like about this restaurant
is it's really on brand for Tangerine Travels.
This chai latte is so freaking good.
This is one of the best I've ever had.
I got it with coconut milk, which was a little bit
extra and it was 70 pesos.
And I also got a green juice for 60 pesos.
You know, given the color theme here,
I'm now thinking that I should have ordered
a tangerine juice or an orange juice, but I'll do
the jugo verde.
My salmon Eggs Benedict took a while to come out today,
but we'll see how it is.
Actually, I already took a bite, I'm just gonna
take a bite for you guys (chuckles)
I'm always a fan of Eggs Benedict.
I remember really, it's a dish that I almost
never don't like, but yeah, it's good.
If I didn't tell you the salmon Eggs Benedict is 175 pesos.
As it turns out, the more I eat of the meal,
the more I like it, then big old pieces of salmon
underneath there that are just delicious.
And then they have the hash browns that are perfectly cooked
with the perfect amount of crunchy on the outside,
mm, I love it.
Today, I'm taking you somewhere that most
tourists here never see.
Our first stop today is in a small town called
San Juan de Abajo.
We're gonna be doing a little Mexican grilling today.
So our first stop is to get fresh pressed tortillas.
Tortillarias are super common and you'll find them
all over Mexico, but this is actually one
of the biggest tortilla making operations I've seen.
And now we're here at the little market,
picking out some fruits and vegetables
for our Mexican grilling order.
(lively music)
We are in Nuevo Ixtlan, Nayarit at the aguas termales
or the thermal waters.
After at least a two-hour drive, we arrived to literally
the middle of nowhere in the state of Nayarit
to these hot springs here.
They have a bunch of different pools we can choose from.
We're surrounded by nature here, and you can have it
pretty much as cool or as hot as you want the pools.
In terms of distance here, it actually wasn't that long
of a drive, however, we were going through so many small
towns and on gravel roads, winding through the jungles.
So that's why it took so long to cover
not a very far distance.
Now we are here and we're gonna spend the next couple
of hours enjoying the thermal waters of Nyarit.
Oh, this feels awesome.
And then you have all the natural minerals
to help exfoliate your skin.
I'm sure it gives you other benefits and stuff like that.
It feels so good; I am going to enjoy this.
(birds singing) (water gurgling)
(peaceful music)
We have the hot water cranked all the way up.
So it was coming in really fast,
but it couldn't drain fast enough at this hole.
So our pool started overflowing,
but the drain closed right out here.
So if you go to this side of the pool, it's really warm.
And then there's actually like cool water over here.
(peaceful music)
Oh yeah, they just brought out some freshly
cut fruit for us.
- Fresh fruit for you. - Gracias.
Tonya and Pepe are over here,
cranking up the grill.
We got some stuff grilling already, cutting up some
fruits and vegetables and in a little bit,
we're gonna have a nice little feast.
Ooh, that looks good. (chuckling)
Lunch is ready.
(pleasant music)
This tour was recommended by a subscriber.
And I booked it through Airbnb.
It was about a hundred US dollars.
If you're interested in it,
if it's something it looks like you would enjoy,
I'll link to it down in the description below.
I was looking at the wristband here and it says
to get in here in these, aguas termales,
it's a 50 pesos, the entrance fee is only 50 pesos.
However, the hard part is getting here.
We were on these windy jungle roads forever.
And if you don't know where you're going,
you're gonna get lost, I'm sure.
We're leaving the thermal waters.
And the next part of this tour was the real selling point
for me, we're going to Bucerias for a massage on the beach.
(lively music)
Oh, you know, just the horse trotting down the road, hello.
As we're driving along the road here,
we're just passing all kinds of beautiful scenery.
There's a lot of car time on this tour.
And this time it's gonna be about an hour or an hour
and a half from the thermal water is to Bucerias.
We just got to Bucerias and we have a massage tables
right in front of us, right ocean front.
I'm like 95% sure I'm gonna fall asleep during this,
with the waves crashing.
I'm just feeling really relaxed after those thermal waters.
All right, I am so ready for this massage.
(relaxing music)
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(relaxing music)
I've been craving some seafood.
So today I came to The Blue Shrimp.
However, I wanted to go somewhere else,
a little hidden gem here in Vallarta.
However, it's kind of far away.
And the Uber was really expensive to get there.
So just the cost of the Uber was like the cost
of an entree here.
So here I am at The Blue Shrimp and I'm gonna hope
that my mahi mahi, the catch of the day is delicious.
It looks really good; it was 420 pesos.
This mahi mahi was quite expensive.
However, it does look really good.
It has like a sweet potato puree, some steamed vegetables,
a passion fruit sauce, which I'm really excited for.
So I'm going to dig into this.
Mm, that is so, so good.
Better be for this price.
I realized that I'm here on my last night
in Puerto Vallarta and I hadn't seen a single sunset
all week and Puerto Vallarta has some
of the most beautiful, beautiful sunsets.
And it was really pretty, but I didn't get
the camera out in time to show you, I'm sorry.
You just have to come here and see it for yourself.
It is spectacular almost every single night.
It is amazing, I got the very end of it on camera
and I really didn't do a justice in any meaningful way.
So come in for yourself, if you want to see the sunset.
So Vallarta wasn't very well-known until the movie
came out "The Night of the Iguana" with Elizabeth Taylor.
And this house right behind me here is actually
where Elizabeth Taylor was living on my left
and on my right is where Richard Burton was living.
And the story I was told is that this bridge
that's connecting these two houses was built
because they were having an affair and they'd
be able to sneak over to each other's house
in the middle of the night.
This house has totally been renovated since she lived here.
And it's now Hotel Casa Kimberly and it's not
only a hotel, but also a bar and restaurant.
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