[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah welcome to a new edition of check it. today, a reporters explore mexico. there's so much to see and do with fabulous speeches, ancient cultures, and delicious kazi 1st, eva's rebec shows you 3 cool mexico city neighborhoods that you won't necessarily find in your average guidebook. ben drew karate takes you to chick janisa,

one of the most important ruins and mexico's yucatan peninsula. and when you've had your fill of culture, will end with something to tickle your taste, but a colony city to are ready. let's go welcome to mexico city. now this is not just any city, it's a huge metropolis. that's home to 9000000 people. and honestly, i know mexico city doesn't have the best reputation. but today i want to show you a very different side to the city, maybe a side that you didn't even know existed. so in this episode, we're going to travel to 3 very different neighborhoods across mexico city. and we're going to see how people will call them home, live and work a ready, mammoth let go. we're starting out in a so called barrier, magical or magic neighbourhood designation given to the most historic, culturally significant parts of mexico city. this is co, i can't. now, watson for the place of the coyotes you know, when you come to

a local barrow in mexico city, you can skip going to and their cargo or a market because that's where you see how people go about their day, how they work, how they live. now condos are kind of like the souls of each neighborhood. so i'm going to take you guys into that coil i can market and see what we can find inside a gun. when you dive into the crowded interior of the local market, your sensors instantly become overwhelmed. with the smells, colors and sounds inside. to me, this is as real as it gets if you want to experience a slice of local culture. so with marker in mexico city, you don't just get handicrafts or clothes or just vegetables and fruits. you get often everything pretty much in the same place, at least here. my theory is you could probably survive in the market for a week without ever having to leave. you have everything that you need. ah, so right here i want to show you something

a little bit different. take these out. these are so called alady has they are kind of surreal, abstract, magical animals that you only find here in mexico. and they are kind of like a combination of different kinds of animal usually. so for example, right, hair mean this to me it looks like a combo of crab and fish and some kind of magical a dragon. right hair. we've got a bed painted and all kinds of beautiful patterns with flowers. okay, i'm gonna pick out one allegory, hay entreated as my token of good luck. these 2 are my favorites. when i can only choose one, the coyote or the pegasus they were going to get to run. our next stop is such a meal cope. a peaceful o'lakes is on the outskirts of mexico city,

thanks to its natural beauty. so to mucosy unit weld heritage site and the way to get around here is i'm colorful both called tracking data on the weekend you'll see families both local and tourists, partying it a big time on the boat. but today i want to show you a very different grassroots perspective. and on one of these boats we meet ricardo, the founder of an important project. they'll actually number as it's called, works with local farmers on restoring the thomland expanding so junior because natural environment and protecting it from new construction. it also helps provide jobs for more local while maintaining such mucus, traditional agricultural practices. so where does all of this delicious food come from? come from here. it's a local food, and we have many products who we harvest yesterday for, for make the store. and i 1st when we have a salad, it's been

a 10 cherries and cucumber and carrots come from here. and now here we have teeth and we call it gets or and chattel. and hearing the blackest gun who we call it mancha, hit the, we have what i'm morally between of a gallows organic to come from the one thing. and we prepare, we've seen an onion with this elantra on from the china and the onion to i mean that, but we, we have the coffee but no, but they're made with cinnamon, natural gas. you guys came and makes a young coffee or know the best coffee i've ever had in my life. and one of my 2nd cop and i'm planning for a said was that you mucous water canals are the remains of a massive water, transportation, and food production system. originally billed by the s decks in the pre colonial valley of mexico. the small islands or 2 numbers which adopt the landscape are actually essential for the survival of mexico city. they provide it with water with

fresh produce. and since the capitol was built on top of the lake, that she numb, pass off, play a role in stabilizing the ground underneath it, so it doesn't collapse in on itself. so beautifully is one of which numbers, it's so huge. the asterix pleaded the people from here, they treated 2100 people from the syria. and who are the people that work on this jan bus? i have 3 workers and they born in the saddle and they know everything about the her to make the crops inside. so local food, locally produced by local people, right? that is the goal. so take this out. this is soil and a lot of us are scared of this stuff, you know, because it's dead. he because it's not clean, but this is where it all begins. this is where all of our food comes from and it's amazing to see the process behind it all, how it actually grows,

how it's actually created. the origins of our food, you know, like sometimes we're so disconnected from the food that we eat from the nourishment that we have. and it's just amazing to take the soil this life, giving soil into your hands for just a moment. smell it. touch it, feel it. this is life. oh, i see here feel so wonderful. it's just the screw lash, amazing area of greenery and it's half an hour away from the center of mexico city . this is one of the most beautiful combing places i've seen in this country so far . now on to our next destination, back in the center of mexico city. there's one last place that i want to take you guys that's really special here. but in order to get that, i've had to come to

a very different kind of neighborhood to the ones that we've been visiting. so far . this is condenser, the hipster capital of mexico city. welcome. if you're looking for a highlights to of mexico city, you might skip contessa altogether. but if you'd like to experience how mexico city is changing from a truly local perspective, i definitely recommend this is the definition of a hipster neighborhood. no sugar low in carbs. kito vegan ice cream condenser is the fashionable hips, the center of mexico and very different from all the other neighborhoods in town. it doesn't matter that we're in a hipster neighborhood. the time of mexico city is always present. so i say the danger ah, other spot because i've, i've arrived at like land justina

a tiny hole in the wall bar that deals exclusively in mexican moscow. mescal is a little bit like tequila in that they're both made from a garvey. but miss cow tends to be much richer, much more aromatic and flavor. the bar manager daniel is here to give us an introduction. wow, here we go. la la, real mexican was wow, real mexican was called the answer. authentic wisco. amazing. so how strong is this exactly? exactly. it's $54.00 degrees of vocal weight. 54 point. thank you for 4.6 is one of the strongest that we have been left on the center of the high amount of alcohol for you to take more do flavor of the actual actual plan. so it made a strong what it will taste good. do you shot it or do you sit there when the culture you're down to drink? let's go and shut with middle cases. if he does better or give receipt,

the thing is counselor. and we just give a little to a grab. it's really a smoky kind of take. yes. yeah. barry's job. all right, so how about this? when we raise a toast, now let's raise it to be humble. i got a brand. yes of course. all right, sure. cello, a cello, a with next we a company, drew the newly rattie on an exciting excursion from the popular beach resort of canker. we had to one of mexico's most visited tourist attraction, the ancient ruins of chick janitta. you probably heard of the maya civilization once a vibrant city debate teacher needs that is

a complex of mine go in and ancient structures. it's approximately 200 kilometers from con, best known for the complex calendars advances and mathematics and astronomy, and allegedly predict in the end of the world in 2012. my civilization was one of the most dominant indigenous societies of mexico and central america. before the 16th century, spanish conquest treat you need, says the unesco royal headed site and quite popular prior to what i have here as early as possible and be here by 8 pm. otherwise, the waiting lines can be quite long. if you want to, you can hide a guide to tell you more about the site, which will cost it on for fios and will allow you to skip the line. if you're not a mexican national, i think it would cost you $571.00 mexican pixels, which is around 25 years.

it's about 10 percent cheaper if you'd be like that instead of garcia who don't use the indian and like most terroristic places, there are a lot of tourist shops where you can buy souvenirs. but if you don't want anything, just say no grass. yes ma'am. oh oh oh, that sounds like a bird. ah, if you google for cheating it's the image of this bit omitted will come up. i used to ping that this itself was teacher need so, but it's actually the whole site. this pyramid itself is called the pyramid of ellicott to you are the temple of cool, cool cotton. it's the main attraction you cook will, can, is actually the name of a serpent deity that was worshipped by the maya. and it literally means feathered

snake in the yucatan. my language. if you're here, you will see a lot of people clapping that because there is something very special with the acoustics of this temple in the status. if you clap, there will be an echo that you hear with sounds like a bird chirping specifically that shirt of the mexican kits, either a sacred animal in my m culture. finally, it doesn't work. if you're standing on the side, you have to be standing exactly in the center of the sector. we know that the maya had a really sophisticated little system during the 360 calendar. now what's interesting

is that if you see the pyramid behind and each site has $91.00 step exactly, but the main engine has one extra step. so in total, $365.00. in the end, on each side you can see $52.00 rectangular panels. they stand for the 52 year calendar cycle. the maya used to take longer periods of time. then believe that after each such period, the universe gets destroyed and recreated when the new era starts to the misunderstanding that they predicted the end of the world in 2012. ah, i just gotten them. it's true. if you were wondering how high castillo in the temple at the top of the pyramid is approximately 24 meters above the ground, the view must be good for me. but these rooms are protected and you're no longer allowed to climb up there. this is to avoid accidents and to preserve this ancient side

ah, here i have the hob calendar of the mine which was also please 65. they just like more than telling it. busy had 18 month each month had 20 days, and there were 5 days left over at the end of the year. and these mines considered those 5 days, very dangerous. they were afraid to leave their homes on those days and followed certain rituals, because that was the time the believe that the and the world met with the more to the site covers an area of roughly 5 square kilometers. and it is the city used to be also one of the most and worst ones in the maya world, which could be the reason why we can find a variety of architectural styles here. and these structures used to be painted.

you can see some left over colors on some of the structures. you can even find a ball game cord there. can you imagine playing a game where you have to pick a rubber ball through that whole, but wait, you're not allowed to use your hands feet. you can use the elbows, hips, or this area or any other part of the body, and there's another twist. if you win this game, you get your head cut off. i'm not joking. this was literally the rule of this game . the captain of the winning team gets decapitated. but the funny thing is he considered it an honor. it was an honorable sacrifice to people who wanted to have that happen to them because they believed that they will be in carbonated in a better fall. this is one head of the after life after life the

head there. oh, it's hard to imagine that some of them i ever chose where this brutal given that quite sophisticated sense of architecture with a to stick decorations and beautiful carvings. and that it, some of these carvings which give a hint at their custom enbridge. this vall has a lot of engraved because that's because they used to put the enemy skulls on a bike on the wall. ah, don't forget to beg your son soon because even in the middle of winter, it gets very hot here, always touching on 30 degrees celsius. but thankfully there's shade here in some areas. you should also bring enough water, but if you're out of it, there is one shop inside the side which sells and other beverage. it's located right next to the sacred zenato. ah, this here is the secret santa. we thinking you think court, they used to throw

a lot of stuff down there for secular fight, even human if you come all the way to to, to needs. so then you should also visit these amazing sin. notice like this one down here, which is just a 5 minute drive from speaking with a finally we head back to mexico city.

eva, who back loves trying the local food wherever she travels. so she is going on a street food tour with her neat rusito, my guide to the best food in town. irosia runs her own company called eat like a local who specialize in st for tours right here in mexico city. and were off to our very fest spot as super local hole in the wall which says the ultimate street food item and mexico docos. last for this that are one of my favorite that goes there. well, that was something that was that goes in mexico. i usually made by a guy. ok. and you will take another yes. may i? when i was i something really new in mexico. they're not something that was existing in the beginning. they side of becoming for what are after we started working on the street and we knew something to eat. right? so the etiquette is just to take it with your hands. stuff in your mouth,

you know quickly. exactly, and all with your head, the head isn't going to give you a really good that got you as a guinea with some current anthem, mito a kind of like like, i'm only on so let's do this. so this is the plane tackle so far. what we're going to do right now is add a little bit of soft, little bit of garnish. let's make this alicia. can i do those? can i do this? okay, 123, a good. everything in this tackle, jason solve crash. the veggies are just the right amount of crunchy. and the guacamole on top is so creamy and delicious. you gotta get your hands really dirty . like you gotta like, invest your body into your food. i love that. you know, that was only the beginning. we're on our way to, well, 1st of all, we need to digest that taco, and then we'll be on our way to meet one of the longest standing st. food vendors in the neighborhood of con desa. when i'm done, you know, i saw that is,

it seems 40, i'm here wake up to me this packet and they said, come back, get back. what? because they're basically be in a basket. and what they do is they put it back on with the stopping. they fall them and then they piled about like a fan. yeah. oh wow. and there for boiling oil like chopped onions and then they still it with plastic reps. so they sweaty, they sometimes they call it back also that also to study because they have more flavors. i like to work with an engineer because he makes it back with most of the basket. that goes there, made enough mass production. and then when you're in a hurry and your work do jobs and you have things to do, you've come to order to, to eat and got amazing. say this at all. if he makes, he makes us every year every day, different. look how beautiful and i smell it. ah, my god, every time i smell something like this, every time we're walking past different st. food stalls, different restaurants, and you smell all these little smells you every time that happens, my mouth watering. do you think that's a spicy mouth. okay, but she's an ex again, so she's from here

a . ah, this is the kind of remember that i tell you that women make their country and men make that visit like if ever you have been made by women. since the aspect she comes from, i saw him, he's going to say you got most of the biggest heaviest thoughts. they come from that state because they grow their self. they go the core and they go to stuff that they cook. so this is something that is very difficult because everything is made by her. wow, gordon is the most important thing that we have in mexico is the essence of our culture. and literally in my ankles, are demand was made out of court. so for me, this book is very simple. buddies, the heart, the for not. right. this idea, the rab ones you can try the playbook by itself. delicious. that's corn. it's much corn that became

a fun this. oh my gosh. i never knew that this existed. it's if i see enough my been up let's see. let's see here with me here. we've got the pallets right, cactus. yeah, this is interesting. yeah. so the cactus, it has like a picture is really cool and very different from what kind of food that i'm used to normally because it's a little bit like jelly a little bit solid, but also quite self. right. so you kind of feel like if crunchy, let's try in next up for you to commit to one of the busiest in mexico city in their cattle there might get, it's known as a flower market, but there's a lot of delicious treat hidden within its walls as well, a little facing with all these an offer,

look at this is called black sample data birth, special for it and then mix it with it's like faruqi pudding. yep. right. ah, oh, we have well, but it's so sweet. it's so fresh, absolutely delicious in it. and you have to go into a mangle. so do you see when i buy now? i learn this to me. it's like a tiny little clementine or something like that. oh wow. it don't feel like doing a small. 1 orange yeah, as a whole. yeah. good. that's my me very sweet. wow. beautiful. a. 2 but as the fruit, you know, the thing about the fruit from this marketing for that i've had to mexico so far is that it taste nothing like the food that we get and supermarket it, like almost speak right. because yes, so and then yes, and you did like do the lawyer, labor of the food? exactly your life. why do you add extra sugar to the fruit?

but obviously there's no extra sugar and that's just how the food actually takes. exactly. we were about to try something very local. he collette that he collect us are an unusual combo with chunky slices of turnip dipped and sugary powder kind of like lollipops. but of course with a mexican to it. okay, there is a the power puff girls flavor. i think that's probably the middle. now it's a violent red medical. yeah. parking group. yeah. mangos, chilly migrant julian. good. good. good listeners. sweet and juicy and fresh. right. kind of like a popsicle, but a little bit healthy go. it's on a vegetable. but with all of your own stuff, they'd like to cancel each other out now. and that's the end of our mexico trip, or yos until next time.

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