OAXACA: The BEST city in Mexico?! (Barrio de Jalatlaco Tour)

[Music] [Music] so now that you've seen sochi milko we want to take you to another neighborhood in oaxaca this one is called atlantico headlock tico halal i was so i was so close really you were a lot closer so we just wanted to show you where it is in reference to sochi moco's as you can see this is the colorful street where we started our sochi milko video oh my god look at this guy got it figured out quite the shade to get to hala talako you just go straight from here you'll see there's a park up here we'll take you to that and then you keep heading east they just make regular stuff into such cute stuff [Music] who needs an ozone layer when you've got a 10 foot umbrella so this is the first part that you'll see on the walk to halal it's really nice we come here and just hang out in the afternoons bring a book read they have benches everywhere right over here that's a squirrel theater so they put out mango every morning and you can watch the black squirrels come down and just like wow on this mango it's also a really cool place to come because you kind of like see how the mexicans spend their days they come here they relax they kiss a lot they're actually very affectionate another thing i feel like i noticed unlike a lot of other places we go is nobody's on their phones like people are they're sitting there reading or talking or just taking in the nature parks are so nice to come too because you see people's interactions and just get a little insight into their everyday lives something else we have to point out is halit laco is actually like you would think that it would start with an h right but because it's spanish it starts with a j so if you're wondering like you're typing in google like where is halet locko it's actually with a j and adam gets so confused uh funny story i was looking for hata lakko and i was asking locals like do you know where jared lako is got it latko and it took about six people getting together to figure out i meant to say hated laco and they were like oh see it was like one block away but even one letter one mispronounced thing and it just doesn't make any sense at all [Music] what's that sound there's the gas man this place doesn't have a line right now because it's not like peak lunch time but they always have a line and they have such great sandwiches and they're only like that 50. [Music] which is [Music] let's just take a moment and appreciate mother nature holy crap look how vibrant this tree is stunning so from the last park we're just heading straight this is also an amazing moroccan restaurant and then straight in front of us this is eliano which is also called parque juarez and this park is bigger than the last one it's a nice place to come on a walk at night there's a ton of vendors and everyone's working out it's really pretty and it's just like far enough on the outskirts of the central area that you don't see a lot of people here so it's a great place to come and relax just a little fun fact in mexico oxos are like our 7-eleven [Music] what in the hell kind of store is this store of nightmares this is the east side of the park and if you follow the road straight it'll lead you right into the barrio of holland loco this is where it starts [Music] so [Music] this neighborhood is like one of the chillest neighborhoods in all of oaxaca city you wouldn't even know you were in the city if you didn't get there like around the corner from it even though it's just like a 10 minute walk from santo domingo this area is so much less frequented by travelers i guess it's just not really on the map for a lot of people but luckily we found it and we absolutely love it there's so much art here it's on every wall the streets are narrow i don't think you'd guess from the sound of cars driving by right now but typically there are like no cars there's no traffic the buildings are over 100 years old here so they can't put garages on them so it really keeps people from having so many cars around here and it's so tiny you can walk everywhere and it's just beautiful wherever you turn yeah there's murals there's color people just like relaxing and enjoying themselves there's cafes a ton of cafes [Music] cute little stores this one's called me tiandita the little tienda there's a red store and this is one of the coolest streets down here too with all the street art so another reason this area isn't frequented by a lot of tourists is because they don't have a lot of hotels over here it's more so a residential area than like in central oaxaca and even in sochi milk look at these streets cobblestones hundreds of years old awesome you can really see how old these buildings are i mean this wall there's brick there's dirt like this over here this looks like yeah clay it's all kind of pieced together [Music] look at how unique this is like you turn your door into this giant piece of art it's beautiful another thing i love about oaxaca is they have braille street signs i mean where else in the world do they have braille street signs crazy we've learned so much since we've been making these videos and probably the number one thing is you have to eat before you make anything or else i i get testy he gets testy we get in a fight and it's just not worth it so we were getting to that point we're getting low so we're gonna head to a restaurant and get some food stay tuned my favorite time of the day food time all right hope you're hungry let's go i wonder if that is actually a zap attack and mix deck [Music] this is a pretty popular appetizer here in oaxaca it's quesio which is that string cheese and it's wrapped in herba santa which is a herb that's indigenous to this region so let's see how it tastes let's spice that up what's life without some spice [Music] it's like the string cheese that we get at home but like tastes so much fresher and the way that the herba santa wraps it like it just complements each other so well so heidi just got the arachera or the grilled steak it looks delicious with those fresh veggies so good and i got the barbecue beef tacos which look incredible as well so we've been in oaxaca for like six weeks and i have yet to see something like this hey it's a little pocket of tortillas tortilla pouch gotta get that fresh mexico lime don't forget that spice oh this is another thing we love in mexico they make this ground chili with oil that is just so delicious i feel like at home we have salsa and we're like oh salsa and you go to the store and you hear that when you pop it open tostitos salsa is like the salsa we know here they make this stuff it's so fresh the tomato flavor is like incredible they put the chilies in there and it's just all roasted together in such a perfect way harmonious it's harmonious well set heidi vic well said love you we also learned recently that most eat tacos the wrong way we try to put it into our mouth like this and it falls all over the place in mexico you turn your head 45 degrees and then taco stays straight and you genius genius you're welcome you're welcome copyright here how to eat a taco stay out of my food girl so something we've been finding in mexico is that a lot of the times the food is better at less expensive restaurants you know we think i feel like at home we just think that if it's more expensive it's going to be better but truthfully we go to these fancy restaurants sometimes and either the food doesn't have the flavor or the service isn't quite what we are used to and like here we're just at like a little cafe we saw on the side of the road with a beautiful view of the city and the food is phenomenal in fact it's so good i think i might have to do a food dance break i love my babaco with oh my tacos so something we do with our trips i say we i mean heidi she keeps track of all of our spending so we keep our budget under control at 50 a day each she has this great app called trail wallet trail wallet it lets you enter in cost in either your home currency or the local currency and along the way the little lady on it tells you stuff like wow you're spending a lot today or a great job you're under budget so it kind of it's just a good way to keep track of your expenses because let's face it when you're away and you're using different currency it can be really easy to just get crazy and not even just be like oh yeah i'll take it i'll take it i'll take it because it kind of seems like at least to me like fake money sometimes like i mean it's like plastic it's plastic money anyway it's right it's bright colors like monopoly money so this is the way that we keep our maybe you can see breaks you down so you can actually see day by day what you're spending or month by month so far we spent 1912 today and it even does a little pie chart for you so you can see like accommodation is blue food is green transportation flights like it's a really really cool app we're on average a hundred dollars and fifty cents a day which is exactly our budget so yeah we're doing pretty good adam wants to eat tonight you can't you know people always say like let's move to mexico it's gotta be so affordable and so cheap and in a sense yes it can be very affordable but we just looked up earlier online and even in this like little neighborhood here just outside of the city houses with two bedrooms and two bathrooms start at like 250 000 and go up to 1.5 it's a beautiful area so i totally understand and the access to the city is also really nice but i think one of the things about this neighborhood right now that makes it so great is there are no hotels or airbnb's where there's very few so that in a sense it makes it so local like the people you see here are all locals and i think that as people start to buy up that property especially at those prices you're going to start to see a big change in the area in the area and the people that are here and you know like the community that you have here right now like you just see people talking to each other and hanging out and enjoying the art it's just such an incredible place to visit they just have so many cool old cars here even with their flat tire they got a rock wet underneath it back home oh everyone's like you have a cool car because it shows that you're successful and like it's your status symbol right well here everyone just has these little cars and they run so why not use them like they don't need to get a new car every year the the newest you know bmw and if you have a car you're fortunate enough to have a car so you might as well drive it and be proud to drive it and i'm sure people aren't like oh look at you and your shitty car i remember when i was young and my dad had this little car that he would drive to work it was very economical like good on gas but it was a beater and i was so embarrassed when he would have to drop me off at gymnastics i would make him take me to the back so no one would see me in this car like how ridiculous at 12 years old i was worried about like being cool because i thought i wasn't cool in this like crappy little car when it's just a vessel to take you to point a to point b like who cares what it is get me where i need to go so one of the first days we were here in oaxaca i'm gonna take this down no one's around we did a street art tour by bicycle and it took us through holla lakko and this is where we met bular which is a street artist here this is his work it's amazing um he talked to us about his style and what these depict [Music] so the story goes back in the day only the men were allowed to go to the bars and the women were pissed they're like i want to have fun too so this place here was the first established woman's only bar so the women got together had drinks together and had fun which i absolutely loved so baller painted this mural to represent these women drinking together and having a good time check it out he even made these shirts and included some masks on them so it could be relevant to our time today you can still have a good time but be safe at home dogs have collars here they wear vests and they have water everywhere for the dogs very cool look at this guy you just want pets yeah you good boy this is always mexico to me they have like styrofoam in there in their bumpers maybe a coconut fell on the windshield i don't know [Music] these things are really cool so when they're having like parades and celebrations they put these on their shoulders you can see right here those pads go on their shoulders and they put fireworks on top of them and light that baby and let it go when it's a fiesta dance party with [Music] the dogs are like scared yeah he's local [Music] switch [Music] so [Music] switch thank you gracias [Music] foreign [Music] anytime you need practice practice your spanish it's a magic [Music] my family my grandfather made mescal 50 years ago [Music] oh yeah it's a mask of the devil dance traditional mask in the coat of oaxaca then why if a mescal is [Music] we're right on that main corner cross section it's beautiful we got the church right behind me and then this is that corner where like everything kind of happens it's the crossroads they have this incredible dia de los buentos we're gonna stop and get a coffee at this place they do a really good job actually i think maybe we'll get some smoothies [Music] one of the other things i love about mexico is you can get smoothies for like two bucks and it's the freshest fruit mines with yogurt heidi's is a blackberry with water hers is like a dollar fifty at home this would be like eight dollars for a mango smoothie and they are so delicious but you have to realize the fruit grows here so that's why it's way less plus the cost of living is less and but i still like to pay two dollars for my mango smoothie mucho species she froze your little brain i'm gonna take advantage need a brain to freeze first you're stupid like this neighborhood is so great they're even they even turn their telephones into these beautiful floral pixelated artwork they even recycle in style prettiest recycling bin i have ever seen in the shape of a heart because we care another interesting fact we have seen hundreds i'm not even kidding like hundreds and hundreds of vw beetles and we asked our friend like what is going on why are there so many beetles here and he told us that vw had a factory in mexico city so now it makes sense not only is there art on the walls and all the buildings around here but even at the school i hope you can see that everything is just painted so beautifully so the kids are even getting exposed to this art and color at school every day that says like no pushing play together be friends this is the church of halal it's called san mateos and these trees have been here since 1660 they started building the church in 1700. and so these are over 300 years old and this tree has these beautiful pink flowers like nothing i've ever even seen so this is tahate which is a traditional beverage here it's made of corn cacao fermented fruit pits looks delicious we both think it's such an important thing to explore the places you go to and that's one of the things we mean when we say that we are country collectors we don't just go places we go and we explore them and experience them and until you go someplace that's not just the centro or not just the whole district you haven't really experienced it we really love the area that we're in right now in oaxaca centro but hale waco just has so much charm it's so nice to be able to check out the different neighborhoods of a place i think it's really important to get like a whole feel of the entire city and so i definitely and i know we definitely recommend checking out palette laco it it's just such a special place like we were saying before it's just outside of the centro but it's like you're stepping into like a whole different world the buildings are just so brightly colored and there's so much art everywhere it's it's just smaller there's only like two-story building yeah that's why we love it i think you can only have three or four stories so nothing's like looming over you um but it's just like more of a i don't know a homey feel here absolutely it makes you feel like you're like part of the community if you like this video please give us a thumbs up comment subscribe and ding that bell 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