Our FIRST time in Mexico City! (TACO tour + exploring Centro Histórico)

not just a story like old ah from Mexico City we arrived late last night and we are up early this morning ready to explore the city every February I get a few days off from work we try to go somewhere warmer somewhere sunnier get away from the Seattle fog and gloom this year was extra special timing because we just had a winter snowstorm that was by Seattle standards pretty rough pretty bad over a foot of snow so we are very excited to be here in the warm Sun yeah we've been trapped inside for awhile like no one can drive there's lots of hills so it's really nice to be out and about again and not be freezing we chose Mexico City for a couple reasons one we wanted to go somewhere international but not to parks we don't have that much time we also wanted to go somewhere that's affordable because we're trying to do this trip for pretty cheap and we wanted to go somewhere with a different culture than our own a different language get ourselves a little out of our comfort zone I'm already failing at all-time Spanish so today should be interesting but it didn't hurt that Mexico City is a huge taco hotspot and you guys should know by now we love tacos so that was probably the number one factor in deciding where we were going on this trip big big taco day lined up we have five taco spots three back to back to back and so we're gonna do hit up some tacos and then we're going to check out the central historic Oh which is when you think of Mexico City or you google it that's what comes up is the beautiful old buildings historic buildings so we're gonna go check that out and see what fun day it's gonna be a very like touristy day but we can't wait but we were pretty tired we got in really late last night so first we're gonna go grab some coffee [Music] so our first coffee shop of the trip is Cardinal Casa de cafe in Roma Norte which is kind of a tiny part of town we're really excited to spend more time here later on in the trip this cafe is super cute it's kind of an indoor/outdoor we got DOS Americanos it's beautiful out loving it so far all right our first talk was done it is a taco think the non-status especi i list so they make what you tacos ahead of time they put them in a big basket and then you order and hand it to you and we're gonna put some salsa avocado sauce on there it smell delicious they look good and we're gonna give it a shot [Music] so we're actually not a hundred percent sure what kind of tacos these are but they look really good so I'm gonna get a little guy shot right here I mean that one's like refried beans [Music] so we've actually been to Mexico one other time together a little over a year ago we went to Cancun for Thanksgiving which was really fun we stayed at an all-inclusive resort and while that was great we didn't get to experience much of a culture of Mexico so who's the tulum ruins one day and we really wish we could have done way more of that so we're really excited to be back in Mexico and actually experience the culture this time so right now we're in Sao Paulo which is massive Plaza in the center historical district of Mexico City we have the beautiful cathedral right there we have the National Palace right here and then just tons of open space they put a bunch of flowers out it's really beautiful they normally have this huge flag that's raised I think they're working on it right now we've kind of learning today we're trying to get to everything a little too early so oops it's a beautiful spot people have been gathering here since the Aztec time so a lot of historical facts about it and the architecture just absolutely gorgeous so we came to the museum of the temple oh my or the great temple this was the most important building for the Mexico people hundreds and hundreds of years ago it's built in like seven layers every few years they would build another layer on top to demonstrate the power of the Empire it was built for two gods god of rain and the God of War and so the priest would pull up big religious ceremonies here hoping to appease to the gods it's right in the middle of town is about four and a half dollars American dollars for us to get in it's really accessible a lot of fun lots of history here [Music] that was way cooler than I thought it yeah it was way bigger - he thought it would just been outlined in massive inside museum to u.s. dollars yeah giant temple then it had like a whole other museum piece with like multiple levels and huge like carvings and stuff like that in all kinds of bones and all packing stuff so so we learned a lot so we highly recommend checking it out at first or you can spend 30 minutes there you could spend hours there kind of up to you all right this is our taco stop number two right away cute oh we came to get the Montaigne I'll pass door no this is a post or a speciose it's like a mountain of pork outpost or meat with guacamole I got onions salsas on there and there's cheese over the top and then they gave you a bunch of 40 to go to town with so it's just massive and I'm very excited okay I know [Music] about the taco shopping a bunch of for the as in like not just a story it's like eyes head tongue we got squat arrow which is basically a meet between like some belly in the thigh and looks really gonna consummate like top sit or to decide to try it out I'm not really an adventurous eater but I could that this one was really good I tried lingual before like this a little bit better [Applause] [Music] and great spots on the side of the sidewalk check it out so if we didn't already love that taco stand we love them even more now because they gave us our tacos for free oh I don't know if it was the camera for just Green goes but I don't know he gave them to us for free super nice very nice so crust yes love that place it actually is probably our favorite taco the day so far goes line more later but we're stopped right now taco so we're gonna keep walking around Center we saw her go and go do some morphine [Music] so you just uber about 12 minutes out of town to go to 50 Oh TECA Vasconcelos supposed to be a really really cool library I guess very like futuristic looking on the inside and we love going to books bookstores libraries that are really cool we just love cool architecture so that we come check it out one thing we haven't talked about yet is how we've been getting around so we were going to take the metro and like the buses and stuff a lot more but our Airbnb host advised us to take more Huber's considering that all the camera equipment with us so putting up our cameras we'd be doing more public transportation but we are doing more ubers this time around just because we're trying to you know stay faced with all of our camera stuff but ubers here are super cheap like two or three dollars for a ride and it's like a 12 minute ride so it's actually still a pretty cost-effective way to get around the city [Music] wouldn't let us use our cameras in here so we're popping in on the iPhone to say that this is the most unique library we've ever been at the shelves are hanging there's like a skeleton hanging from the ceiling this beautiful building we're in is old post office actually some of it is still working and still mail letters from here but most of it speaking or just going out I don't know if this is all post offices of like I would never complain huh coming [Music] [Music] check it out another beautiful building worth of palacio de bas artists it's a heart Museum so we're gonna check it out from down below but then we're going to go to a special spot to see it from up above this super special spot is Sears department store super fancy so at the top of the Sears it might be the best series ever there's a cafe where you can overlook the Art Museum so we're gonna go up there grab a drink kind of rest a little bit and hang out there till sunset eight I believe you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] we're at tacos Manolo there's about a 30 minute uber ride from centro historico I have a really good feeling it's gonna be worth the drive guess what we got mouth has four tacos and so it came with the pineapple we got the salsas on that that lee-moan everything there we go so as soon as I saw it came with pineapple it already got two thumbs up in my book but this is the licious there's something like fire up the spit to kind of cook the pork on the spit pineapples amazing the salsas are so good I don't know every single place we go she keeps beating the laughs so we'll see we saw Baltimore spot tonight we'll see which one wins we're going for round two we noticed another type of meat on the spit over there it's called taco out of a so I think it's like from our googling it's a middle-eastern like seasoning on it so it's pork also so we're gonna give it a shot too so clearly I hated it it was really really good I think and don't quote me on it it kind of felt like it has a little bit of feta in it I find a little tiny piece the feta cheese I'm not sure maybe I made it up but really good and you can never be passed or but it's definitely a close second [Music] top number five today for an elder feet down the street from tapas Manolos back-to-back like we are highly recommend a specifically this taco shop is during the day it's a auto repair shop for cars and at night you sorts of this super popular taco stand we got here maybe 20 minutes after they open in and it's in fact very Hoffman everything looks Time magazine I got to customer tacos I'm trying to do a taste test and in or ChaCha I have no word I am so excited I could cry right now okay so I got the book on it's a crispy tortilla with steak and melt the cheese all over it looks delicious I'm gonna wash it down [Music] so if you couldn't tell by our facial expressions delicious so you've been to five taco places today what was your favorite feel steeped OLPC though this one here we are right now I'd have to agree tacos were amazing but also just the environment was really fun it was just like tons of people everyone's excited a lot you can watch them making the tacos which is kind of standard around here but still but then we talked to two different people who live here and they were very nice to us and gave us some tips and just really sweet so just the experience as a whole and some guys just came up with stripling music so it's a really fun environment ambiance in the environment it's cool the guys like flaming it up right there people will come up and talk to you a little bit and they had the best flavor of the tacos he asked me out of all the ones we had today so it's gonna be hard to beat we saw maybe two more taco places the rest of the trip but you know there's no bad taco Mexico City so we'll be happy Ricardo we did get a few more recommendations so we might be even adding to the list so I don't know Dave one of Mexico City is done um we are back at our Airbnb in a bit of a taco coma leads on when you talk goes I don't think we even filmed all of them and it was a lot of tacos but very very good so we kind of just want to share a real quick our first impressions in Mexico City as well as anything you learned today and kind of a recap so first off we think Mexico City is awesome we had a really great day at first we couldn't have like a sensory overload there was just a lot of new things to see you know smells try to figure out where to go language barriers as well as you trying to keep our stuff safe so it's just kind of a lot I think we've adjusted pretty well the second half of the day and we're ready for the next two days and feeling a lot more comfortable yeah another thing was the English spoken in this city I was very little in compared to like when we went to Cancun in Puerto Rico they had a little bit of English going on there and they could help you out but here not so much your heart I also speak a lot of Spanish I I can like read it I can I don't know I've had a hard time today and I feel like people have they just don't have had to talk to me so it's been a little challenging but we've learned a lot so that we got by yeah another thing you learned today's we should have worn sunscreen so keep that in mind when you come here it's very sunny you're also higher elevation so we got a little burn then lastly safety I felt pretty safe today yeah everything was good except crossing the street was a little it's kind of like fragra feel yeah there's some pretty crazy don't have like stop signs yeah you might cross lots and they're like fast-moving you have to like wait for a gap and just run so that's the only time we haven't felt safe but I mean Mexico City you know people always think like oh Mexico may not be safe and you know me words a tiny bit concern coming here but honestly it's been great and we're loving it so far we are gonna go to bed now because we have a very early day tomorrow we're super pumped explore more Mexico we're gonna go a little bit out of the city tomorrow you [Music]