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What is up Tangerineys! If you recognize where I'm standing right now
It is because it's the very well-known paseo de montejo in Merida.
The very highly-recommended city, expats come here, it's touted as at the
safest place in Mexico. So we're going to check out the city today and see what it
has to offer. And you might notice that there's a lot of traffic behind us right
now, but tomorrow, it's going to be completely clear for bikes, skateboards,
people walking dogs, to have free rein of the road.
So, that's more like it. So
this is what, in merida, is called paseo recreativo.
And as you can see, bikes, walking, dogs.
We're gonna enjoy this a very beautiful Sunday morning. It is like 75 degrees I
think, maybe heading out 80 today. Quite nice!
So if you've watched our previous videos, you know we love doing this in any city that
has it. It seems like most of the big Mexican cities like Guadalajara, Puebla,
here, Morelia, Morelia. Pretty much all of them have it on Sunday, and it happens every
Sunday from around 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. depending on the place. So this is just a
great time to like go out, and walk around, meet people, pet dogs. [Laughter] That's
my favorite part, anyway. And Laska's favorite part is that she gets to smell
all the smells, and eat all the trash on the ground, and get into trouble. Do you
want to be Laska the pink nosed reindog?
Santa's Little Helper?
[Laughter] Laska the pink
nose reindog. [Laughter]
So one thing we really liked about this here, is that there were
so many different kinds of bikes available for rent. Tandem bikes in
various ways - like sitting next to each other, or in front and back, with shade
above you. Like tricycle, adult tricycle types. Yeah that was really cool!
Maddie, I have a question for you, what is this?
Cute! [Laughter]
I noticed an interesting similarity between here and where we lived for a
while in Guadalajara. Off of Avenida Vallarta in Guadalajara, that's where every
Sunday they would close down the roads, and you could bike, walk, ride your bike,
walk your dog, whatever. Bike, walk, ride your bike?
Yes, exactly. [Laughter] Lining Avenida Vallarta are a
bunch of mansions. That's where a lot of the money was back in the day. Well here,
on the same street where they close down every Sunday, there's a bunch of old mansions.
Like this one!
So it wasn't long before Jordan found himself a giant liter of
fresh-squeezed juice for 45 pesos. One of the great joys of being in Mexico is
that this is an affordable thing that you can buy even on a fancy-pants street
like Paseo de Montejo. [Laughter] How does it taste?
Really good, and I actually like
even better that this isn't squeezed juice. It's like a smoothie of a whole
bunch of vegetables and fruits blended all together so you, have all the fiber? Don't lose all
the nutrients. Yeah, and fiber slows down the absorption of sugar, which is better
than drinking just straight-up juice. Sure.
Come on a date with me. [Laughter]
Oh, I got a cute one! This is one mansion that's currently for rent on
Paseo de montejo. One of our friends in Guadalajara used to live in one of those
mansions, and it was haunted. So, if you rent this place, you might be hanging out
with some other spirits.
Also, on this road, along with tons of coffee shops, and
restaurants, and banks, there's this Walmart here that's pretty hidden away. I
actually thought, with the design of the outside, that it was a museum or
something. [Laughter] And before we forget, where have we been for a while? Well, I was
recovering from being sick after san cristobal de las casas, and
immediately after getting sick, we had to drive long day of driving to get to Villahermosa.
We only spent one night there, and then had another long day of driving
to get to, where did we go? Campeche.
Campeche. It wasn't that long. I mean long for being sick, so
It did not help me get better, at all.
So then once we got to Merida, we needed to like chill
for a little bit. And then also, I was feeling like I needed a break because of
some intense trolling that we got on Facebook.
And so, I was sort of reconsidering
all my life decisions that led us up to that point.
But once we were finally
ready to start making videos again, for a few days straight, it was like hurricane
windy here in Merida. Like really, really bad!
And one flaw that this camera has is
that it picks up wind noise like crazy, even with the wind reduction, and
There's no muff or anything that we could put on it to protect it from that.
There's just nothing made that we could buy. We can work with a breeze but
hurricane-force winds... It would just, it would be annoying, and the audio would
sound terrible. So now, we are seriously looking into investing in some external
microphones, so if anyone has any thoughts on that or anything they
recommend, let us know in the comments. Because we're always looking for ways we
can improve our videos, and this would be a huge one! We were told that
all the parks in mérida have free Wi-Fi, and I noticed there was a free Wi-Fi
sign here along Paseo de montejo as well. But it seems like Internet is super fast
here! I see signs for speeds up to 200 megabytes per second or 500, so if you're
looking for a fast internet, they got you covered! I do imagine that this is the
most wealthy area of all of Merida. But this is also the cleanest, most well-kept,
and nicest area of merida that we've seen. Of the places in the city that
we've seen, this is where I'd want to live here. I imagine if it's anything
like in the other big cities we've seen, there's some very wealthy neighborhoods around.
Good afternoon.
So we just took a, about 20 minute Uber to Plaza Uptown Merida. This really
nice-looking mall. It has like a Best Buy, and this theater here,
Which we're gonna see of the Grinch in total holiday spirit. In
Total Spanish. In total Spanish! Our second ever Spanish movie in the theater.
Usually, we try to see the English ones with Spanish subtitles. But anyway, on
the way here, we wanted to share... Like if you're looking into Merida, some of the
nicest, most clean, and newer neighborhoods that we've seen in the
city so far are around Paseo de montejo.
And north and east of there. Where we're
staying right now is the Centro Historico area. So it's much more aged, historic
obviously. A little rough around the edges,
Lots more trash. But in the meantime, we are going to our first ever upscale
Mexican movie theater, Cinemex. And if you get that reference, you're a true, true
Tangeriney! This is a Cinemex premium. I believe there's three levels of Cinemex:
Cinemex regular, Cinemex premium, and then Cinemex Platinum or something, or
Platino. And these tickets were 79 pesos each.
And I think they're going to be
nice reclining seats but we'll see what they're like when we get in there.
So what did you think of this theater, Cinemex versus Cinepolis, which we
always go to Cinepolis. Well, it's hard to compare, because we've been to
Cinepolis, like the standard version, many many times, and the VIP once. But this
it's like a step above Cinepolis standard because you have the nicer seats. They
don't recline, you don't have service at your seat. But they are bigger and nicer
than regular movie theater seats. And pretty reasonably priced, 79 pesos a
person. What did you think of the Grinch in Español? Well, I was pleasantly
surprised that I was able to follow along for most of it. But I didn't
understand every single word. Pretty good movie though. How about you? I thought
that was a super cute movie! And I agree with everything you said about the theater.
So we were looking to go to this delicious place called Chaya Maya, which
we've now had for breakfast and dinner. And if there was one restaurant that I
would recommend, it would be that one. But, it literally had a line out the
door, so we did not want to wait like two hours for a table.
Not today! Not today! We were meandering around. It's a little
before 5 p.m. and found this restaurant called Coyote Maya.
Chaya Maya to Coyote Maya. [Laughter]
It turns out that, in this city,
a lot of the restaurants have weird hours. Like they're all closed from like
four to six or seven. Or some don't open until six or seven. So it's tough to find
a restaurant around this time of day. But this looks pretty good,
So we're gonna check it out. One thing that's pretty unique to
maybe the Yucatan but, this is the first time we've seen it here in Merida,
Is Chaya and Chaya Tea specifically. Well actually, we saw Chaya the first time in
Tulum. So maybe it's like a Yucatan thing. But they make this green tea. Tea,
Juice, I'm messing all of this up! First of all, we're in the Yucatan Peninsula, not
the Yucatan. I always want to I abbreviate it that way but apparently
that's not correct. Second of all, Chaya is like a leaf, leaf-like vegetable,
Similar to spinach but with the taste of basil. Here, they make it into an agua
fresca type deal. This one, what do you think of it?
It makes me feel like I'm drinking
something healthy. It's still good but it has lots of leafy essence.
[Laughter] Leafy essence. [Laughter] Well you have
a little bit of leafy essence in your teeth, so... [Laughter] What did you get for dinner?
A Tamarindo chicken and it was 170 pesos. How about you?
I got a chaya salad and it was 125 pesos.
No meat or anything, so... I thought you got the Mayan salad?
A Mayan Chaya salad.
It had Chaya Leafs on it. Oh, okay. [Laughter]
The prices are notably higher in this
city, I think. And I don't know if that's something I should have expected
or not being in the Yucatan Peninsula. They're lower then place like Cancun
or Playa del Carmen, but higher than most cities in Mexico. Yeah. But anyway, that
wraps up our day for today. We're going to head home and see you tomorrow. We are
currently in Cafe Riqueza? Cafe Riqueza.
Which we have found, it's some of the best
coffee we've tried in the whole city with really good prices as well. So we're
kicking off the day here.
We're at this brand-new place in Mérida called Paseo Sesenta.
Or Paseo 60.
[Applause]
Wow, that was a great speech, Jordan! Everyone's applauding you! [Laughter]
No, it's probably the live music. The live Christmas music. Yay! Christmas Music!
[Laughter] She has been wanting her Christmas music so badly!
No one is playing Christmas music, it makes me a little sad. But anyway, there's a few
restaurants in here right now. More are coming in. But they're all high fine dining
restaurants. High? Classy fine-dining restaurants. Very, very
classy. Great ambiance, cool live music, fountains. This fountain over top
of the escalators up from a parking garage, I mean it's like fancy! I'm
surprised they let us in this place. [Laughter]
This place is more expensive than what we're
used to eating. But for example, Maddie found about the cheapest salad she could
Here, and it was 95 pesos. And I got a really good wok thing with like
rice, and chicken, and various stuff for 140 pesos. So the prices
could be worse. And it was really good food, and this is a great ambiance!
Especially since there's gonna be more restaurants very soon and a hotel that's
gonna open up. Especially considering there's gonna be more restaurants very
soon, and there's a hotel that's going to be opening up. [Laughter]
We have some exciting stuff coming up for you
guys, like a Red Lake with flamingos. So be sure to subscribe to our channel so
you see those, and!
Ow! Oh God. I pulled my leg.
GONG THAT BELL!
So you get notified the next time we put out a new video about
This pink shit, I mean this pink stuff. [Laughter] And we'll see you there.
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