OAXACA, MEXICO OLDEST Neighborhood TOUR (AMAZING)

hey everybody welcome back i'm adam and i'm heidi and we are the country collectors [Music] today we're going to take you outside of the city center to a different neighborhood called sochi melco if you enjoyed our previous videos make sure you hit that subscribe button on the bottom of your screen right now and ring that bell this is one of our favorite places in oaxaca this is the beginning of sochi milko the oldest neighborhood in the city up here we're heading towards the aqueduct so this is the aqueduct that used to bring water to the city from san felipe up in the mountains they started construction in 1727 and finished in 1750. [Music] the aqueduct you see behind me is one of the most recognizable aspects of this neighborhood [Music] this is one of our favorite corners in all of oaxaca as you can see there's just art everywhere [Music] [Music] so when most tourists come to oaxaca they just stay in the central part by the zocalo but we definitely recommend wandering a bit further off and coming to sochi milko it is such a cool neighborhood it's also known as the barrio de sochimilco yeah the oldest neighborhood of oaxaca it's known for their artisans their textiles their weavings they also have some great street art and food in case you didn't know i like food they have a lot of really good food here too yeah there's one really notable restaurant it's called ancestral it was so delicious one of our favorite restaurants in the entire city so we definitely recommend that and one of the coolest parts about it is it's actually part of that aqueduct we just showed you so when you're sitting in the restaurant you're actually sitting in the aqua duck it's so cool and the food's really good too [Music] the really neat architecture around here too there's another very interesting house here in sochimoko since we've been in mexico we've seen so many toilets or like pieces to toilets it's so odd like this is just out on the street [Music] me [Music] [Music] look we're at a dam a dam i think it's so cool that we are just like walking where the river normally flows like we're just standing down here it's one of those cloudy days and even though i wore sunscreen i'm obviously getting pretty red but i just want to show you this we showed you the aqueducts at the beginning of sochi milko we walked about 10 minutes and we found this we aren't sure the history here where the water came from if it came from the same place san felipe or if this was a river it's dried up as you can see so if you know the answers put it in our comments and in case you didn't know no pooping is it a dam or b dam i don't know it's not a dam or b dam [Music] dog [Music] and here you can see part of the aqueduct again you keep walking north you'll come to casa azul de sochi milko and if you make a left it'll take you down this little alleyway that'll bring you to cafes and one of our favorite restaurants ancestral [Music] so [Music] look how cool this is they've even converted the old aqueduct into a little wine cellar [Music] nothing like a little live music at lunch it's our favorite time of the day time to eat so in mexico they love their flavored waters and everywhere you go you can ask for the agua del dia i love pamica and this is hibiscus flower water and i love maracuya or passion fruit and that's what i got delicious [Music] and now my favorite what would life be without some chile might be a little spicy but that's how i like it oh yeah [Music] oh beet chips it's so sweet they said mix it up look at that cheese from the bottom yeah [Music] perfecto [Music] this is the agua chile i didn't even know that existed [Music] that is like so from ancestral if you walk down the street here there's a few more cafes so we're going to check out this one called the am sandberry cafe sprayer sprayer [Music] that looks good it's like an almond cookie [Music] oh yeah look at that view this is amazing we got another rooftop restaurant we're in sachimilco look at their gardens these nice raised beds and the mountains [Music] and we have it all to ourselves what do you think of sochi milko oh me um well i think sochi milko is a very cool place it's it's different than the other part of the city i feel like the other part of the city is like boom boom boom boom boom it's got the it's got the musicians it's got the people it's got the art on every wall here you have to look a little bit more and i kind of like that too this is such an incredible view up here i don't know if you can really grasp it and we're the only people up here and it's it's sad because i'm sure that during a normal year there would be so many people here we wouldn't even be able to get a table but because of the pandemic there just aren't the tourists around and i know businesses are struggling and we're grateful to be here and to be able to support them but it is it's sad coming to sochi milko is just a nice little escape from the center of the city the streets are smaller there's less traffic it's just more tranquil quiet you can come up on a rooftop and have a midday cappuccino with nobody around we're just listening to the birds chirping and the cats meowing and it's just so nice so if you ever are in oaxaca we definitely recommend going to the other neighborhoods especially social oh what is this my giant cappuccino [Music] amazing an almond croissant i mean croissant we got some chamomile tea what did you get i got a little chocolate cake and a cappuccino and just for the record it'd say sorry cappuccino is huge you got a little something on your nose no the guy behind you have our coffee and the cat roof and a little wiener i mean wiener dog so i was never really a sweets person until i met adam and we have had dessert after every meal pretty much here it's because i'm so sweet it has nothing to do with dessert look at that chocolate we've noticed here that the chocolate is a lot different than back home it's almost a little more bitter it as opposed to like the sauces we talked about in the last video ketchup mayo everything is sweeter their chocolate and their cakes are less sweet which is weird to me but it's still delicious it's just not what we're used to look at that breakfast we got hot cakes with eggs we got some avocado toast bagel with salmon and an angel with a view [Music] when was the last time you were in the city and there was just a fruit tree growing out of somebody's yard like i don't even know it looks like it's maybe grapefruit or something i have no idea this is the story of the baker that's why we love these murals so much they tell the story so it starts over here it's the you know the flower the of the wheat and then it goes to the baker and then it's the fire and the oven and then he puts the bread in the oven and this and then out comes the bread and the birds are saying and everyone's happy and the water's running down from the mountains and there's a crocodile and it's just so pretty and then we go right next door and it's like a mystery does this place sell sausage i don't know but i'm hungry [Music] normally you wouldn't find me in an alley with graffiti anyway but here look it it's gorgeous and safe here they actually use it as their voice so if it's something you know political is going up they want to show you through their work what they want to say so they use art as their weapon which i find super interesting and again the colors are just so amazing and it makes you think like the stereotypical like when you're sad everything is doomy and gloomy and then you see all these colors and you're like god life is okay it's not so bad so i love chocolate and wait no i don't why am i lying to them [Music]