CITY VAN LIFE IN GUADALAJARA | Street Food, Markets, Bike Tour | MEXICO ROADTRIP EP 26

CITY VAN LIFE IN GUADALAJARA | Street Food, Markets, Bike Tour | MEXICO ROADTRIP EP 26

We are currently in downtown Guadalajara.  Guadalajara is a very interesting city   because it is known as the Silicone  Valley of Mexico however it still has   this Historic downtown area where it almost  feels like you’ve gone back in time.[Music] We just finished up a walking tour of  downtown Guadalajara. We saw a lot of  

Cool historic buildings all the  churches and the squares and the   whole area is beautiful with all the  trees everything is blooming right   now it’s a really really cool downtown  area and we really enjoyed the walking tour. So everyone has been  telling us we have to go try  

Tortes ahogadas. It’s a local popular  uh dish we haven’t tried yet so we’re   going to go to the largest market in  Latin America and see if we can find Some [Music] that’s good it’s like a tomato  juice or [Music] something. So we’re   currently in the largest indoor market  in Latin America it has three floors   and it has this nice courtyard in the  center and we’ve been told that you  

Can find everything here if you can’t  find it here then it probably doesn’t exist. [Music] We had a really good day  exploring Guadalajara we ended up   walking about 16 km all day so we are all  pretty tired and you can park overnight  

Here in this lot and it’s only 187  pesos so we are just going to camp   in the parking lot tonight. Hey Finnley  did you have a good day bud? he is wiped. 300 M right left. We drove a little further south to a  town called Tonala we are going to go check  

Out a massive flea market and on the way the  walking path has all these really beautiful   clay uh statues with lots of placards  that tells you all about them very [Music] pretty. getting snacks. What is it? It’s  like a chocolate pan cake. What’d you get? I don’t know,  

Cream of coconut I think? Hi Finnley! how  you doing bud? you enjoying the market? So we just got back from the Tonala street  market it was absolutely massive they had   everything you can think of there and  it all seemed to be reasonably priced.  

It was also kind of chaotic getting  around but it was a lot of fun. We   picked up a couple of fun things. We got  some fun hand towels for the van. We got   four for 100 pesos which is about $7 and we  got this super cute Mexican doll from for my niece.

Bye. Our Max Air fan is making a really  weird squeaky noise so we think it’s a   little bit too dirty so we’re going to take  it apart clean it and put it back [Music] together [Music] Um Quisera regular y llena. [Music] [Music] good morning welcome to Tlaquepaque. We  arrived here last night and ended up   just parking on the street just outside of  town which isn’t ideal however it does put   us in a great spot be able to come in  early snack parking and then go [Music]

Explore. So we in a Pueblo Magico just south  of Guadalajara it’s essentially still part   of the urban area so it’s super cool to have  such an interesting area right by the [Music] city. [Music] The main downtown area is so pretty  all of the stores are filled with very  

Elaborate arts and crafts and handmade  goods and coffee shops and whatnot and   they all seems to be in old beautiful  mansions every single store is absolutely beautiful. We’re in the town hall building  right now and we always find that there’s   always a huge elaborate mural that  depicts the history of the area and  

They’re always beautiful like there’s one right here. Finnley can’t go in the museum so  we’re taking turns walking through it. So the old town square is filled  with restaurants and at about 3:30   Mariachi bands come and so we’re going to head to the  old town Square grab a snack and listen to some

Mariachi. So it turns out at el Parian for  mariachi for the 1 hour each table is   a minimum spend of $50 USD ish a person  and we don’t want to see Mariachi that   badly so we’re just going to walk  around enjoy the fair and get some Street food. Finley Finley get back.

So we got some tuba which  is made from palm tree sap   and then it’s got peanuts on top and it’s really Refreshing. These trucks are  going so fast yeah and to go   that fast they’re running two stop signs. I know crazy drivers here. [Music] Let’s go do a tour. Good morning we are back  downtown it is Sunday in Guadalajara which is when  

They shut down a lot of the main streets and it  becomes a bike and pedestrian area so we’re going   to go exploring. We’re going to do a free bike  tour and then we’re going to keep walking around downtown. Got your

Bike. got our bikes, got our vests, now  we’re going to go for a [Music] tour. We’re all done the biking tour it was a lot of  fun cycling around and seeing all of the historic   buildings the tour was in Spanish so thankfully  we did a walking tour a couple days ago which was  

In English so we could use that knowledge to work on  our Spanish. We’re just heading back to the van now. We’re going to go get Finnley and then we’ll take  him back out and do some more walking around and [Applause] exploring. Current

We’re taking on van life in the big city of Guadalajara! This week we’re getting lost in Latin Americas largest indoor market in search of local food, visiting the oldest running street market in Tonala, and venturing out to the pueblo magico of Tlaquepaque. Guadalajara is a massive and vibrant city, we hope you enjoy it!

– Hayley, Jake, & Finnley

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00:00 Welcome to Guadalajara!
00:57 Latin Americas Largest Indoor Market
02:20 Where We’re Sleeping
03:00 Tonala Street Market
04:30 A Little Van Maintenance
06:16 Pueblo Mágico Tlaquepaque
09:48 Bike Tour of Guadalajara
12:15 Thanks for Watching + Where Next?

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