City Tour of MONTERREY, Mexico 🇲🇽 Santa Lucia, Barrio Antiguo & Macroplaza | Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2021
- In part one of two I take a look around the historic zone of colonial Monterrey, explore the Macroplaza and also the artificial river of Santa Lucia. Be sure not to miss part two with Manuel who takes great pride in showcasing his glorious city.
Monterrey is the most developed city in Mexico and has the richest per capita income when compared to the rest of the country. Many rule it out as a travel destination to their own detriment. It is an incredible city with lots of sights, activities and eateries. Consider it next time you are planning an adventure to Mexico.
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THE TITANIC MUSIC HAS ME HOWLING
I spent all day learning that tune on the recorder so I hope you appreciated it.
Hi Finn, I've seen your comments on a few vidoes so I decided to check out your channel. I loved the tour of Monterrey and decided to subscribe. -Marc
Hey Marc! Thanks!! I went to subscribe to your channel but realised I already was! I turned on notifications so I don’t miss your future videos 😀! Glad you enjoyed the Monterrey tour, I loved filming there and will be going back next year to explore the abandoned shopping mall and rich San Pedro zone 👌.
Titanic on the recorder = dead! 😂 Sorry I was late to the party of this vid - about to jump straight into part 2 now... Where's my bloody popcorn?!
HAHAHA!! Oh wow I’d forgotten about the titanic recorder scene 😅!!! Glad you liked it! PS and I hope your birthday in Greece was nice!
Wow Finn the riverside does look pretty cool 😎 at night. Barrio Antiguo looks pretty chill too with the colonial style. Finn stop being a destructican 🤣😂🤣😂. And Macroplaza is WOWSOME with the underground traffic way.
Eddie!!! Gracias I’m glad you enjoyed it! Maybe a location for you to stop by and film as you pass north through Mexico?! I think you would like Barrio Antiguo. The Macroplaza was a highlight for me! 👌 Gracias por ver carnal!
Finn Del Mundo 🙋🏻♀️Hola 🙏🏼❤️ Magical video Love it 😁👍
Gracias Karina!!! 😀 En qué parte de Mexico vives? Cerca de Monterrey no?
@@FinnDelMundoTravel Hahaha te miro desde California Estados Unidos 🤩Saludos 🙋🏻♀️
Great video, well worth the wait! Good the hear you're keeping up with the recorder playing - your version of the Titanic tune is delightful lol. Looking forward to part 2. Keep it coming.
HOWLING AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I am glad you can appreciate true musical talent when you hear it Chris 🤣!! Part 2 this weekend 👌
Gonna be great 👍🏼
🤩 Cheers Robert! Part 2 will be out this weekend! It’s more social than part 1. Both after possibly my favourite edits to date!! Loved Monterrey! 👌
Amazing skyline, fantastic old 1/4. Gotta love that laser... soooo thats an alien Eye of Sauron???!!!
😅🤣 Hilarious!!! Yes it’s the Latin version of Sauron’s watching eye 😅
Great tour Finn. Glad the city over came Miley Cyrus. 😂 love a good ole above ground to basement transition. The green light is cool!
Hey WITY!! Your Miley comment had me chuckling 😅!! That transition to the basement was an idea I visualised to look slightly better but I rolled with it anyway 😀! Don’t even get me started on the laser beam, it was glorious, and in my opinion gave Monterrey personality 😍.
I absolutely love this video, I so agree the colonial architecture adds so much character to so many Mexican cities, I love how Mexico has achieved such a lovely balance between prehispanic, colonial and modern architecture and culture. That underground road is a marvel, Auckland May need something like that to help with traffic lol 😂.
Cheers Gord!!! I agree with you about the balance being on point with the different styles of buildings over the centuries. There’s something about brightly painted colonial buildings that gets me more excited than a traditional mustard yellow or crimson red that is common in San Miguel De Allende. You’ll see in Guanajuato what I mean 😁!! I think Auckland needs more than an underpass 😜!! Thanks for watching and enjoying it amigo!
I hear Auckland is closed due to Rona "city on the edge" You Toubers showing real Mexico #shocked 🍊. I hadnt heard of the magnet trick, must try it😆 love your style, buildings with character big👍.
BBB!! It’s the entire New Zealand on edge this week on level 4 lockdown. Delta has made it’s way into the country (secretly glad I got out when I did). Lol, magnetgate! The ridiculous things I have seen online about virus side effects was what prompted me to joke about it. I’m going to send you an outtake I made while underground about your favourite youtubers 😂
Very nice tour around downtown Monterrey and your description of the demolition right on point..lol🙌looking forward to the second part. Keep the great job. It shows!🙌♥️✌
Thanks Josè!! It was a real pleasure filming in Monterrey because it’s a city I have a lot of passion for. When I go back I will expand on the places I missed this trip! 😁 Gracias por ver 😍
Santa Lucía Riverwalk was officially inaugurated in august or september of 2007, I was there with my parents.
Awesome, must have been a great day!! I hope you took lots of photos.
@@FinnDelMundoTravel Indeed, it was awesome, whe came at night and there was a lot of traffic xd but, it worth it. I was 7 yrs old 😊
1. I love your sunglasses Finn! Did you get those in New Zealand? 2. 1:17 Not exactly a song I want to be playing while on a cruise haha.. 3. I wanted to visit that artificial river, but when I visited Monterrey. It rained the entire time both times.. 4. You're being too nice, that river definitely needs a clean haha.. 5. Could Monterrey very well be the Venice of Mexico? Quite possibly. 6. So Vamos means let's go to this place, and vamonos means like if I'm going to Monterrey from Mexico City, if I said Vamonos, is it like saying adios Mexico City? Rouse tells me there's no difference, but Google says there is a difference.. 7. 5:13 you have to love these places that are rough around the edges, I've been to pristine cities like Oslo and Copenhagen.. and I've had a more exciting time in shthole looking places in the Philippines.. 8. No idea Miley Cyrus visited Monterrey. Neat. 9. Can't wait for part two Finn!
I actually got the glasses in Mexico back in 2018 from the airport - the cost me hundreds!! Wearing them is like seeing the world through an Instagram filter 😁! Haha man don’t lie, I know that romantic music is your style 😂! You gotta go back when it’s not raining - well worth the visit 👍. Vamos and vamanos are exactly the same thing from my understanding. Laughed a lot at your reply, thanks for watching and commenting Zack!!
PS Fully agree about perfect vs shithole and shithole being the winner. I bypassed San Miguel De Allende en route to Guanajuato because I prefer something more gritty. Guanajuato is gritty and interesting! 👌
Hey my amigo!!! I’m just getting around to this one! I hope you are doing well. Xx
Hey Jessica! It’s been a push for time the past couple of weeks but motivation has it’s ups and downs I suppose :) Off to Mexico City tomorrow!! Hope all is well up in USA 😃
This is absolutely impressive Finn awesome shot at the riverside you always did an excellent job in this wonderful place indeed!
GRACIAS TINA mi amiga!!!! The part I enjoyed about the riverside area of Santa Lucia is the escape from the city madness it provides. Such a tranquil place to go yet it is right in the heart of the city 👌.
Hola Finn - great to see you are in a new town and loving the lay of the land. Just wanted to ask, the old part of the plaza before you showed us 'underground', was that a giant avocado on display in the background? (On the left behind you). Was thinking shades of Ohakune's carrot. Also I was going to have you on about the Titanic pan pipes, but Chris bet me to it! Anyway overall a great new vid on Mexico and good to see you back after a couple of days off. Roll on Part 2 . . .
Hola!!! Good question!! That large thing you saw was an exhibition there in the plaza of things made from rubbish collected in the streets during a giant city clean. Artists then used the rubbish to make art, that giant ball was old electrical cables. Further down there was an elephant made from old TVs from the 90s, old dolls and toys and general rubbish. I didn’t have time to add it into the clip this time but maybe when I go back I could mention the lengths the city goes to in keeping the place clean. The titanic recorder is something I was going to use at Xochimilco but forgot, so thought why not use at Santa Lucia. Thanks for watching!!!! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
Really nice video Finn definately there are really few youtubers that come to Monterrey or even the north of Mexico most stay in the centre and down south!
Hey Gorge! Fully agree with you there, yes the north has just as much, if not MORE to offer than the south / central parts of Mexico. I like it for the fact that all the pansy travellers aren’t in the north because they’re in their safe havens down in San Miguel, Vallarta or Queretaro, (nothing against these places but you get my point). I think we are all getting tired watching retiree channels and idiots giving tips about how shocked they are in Mexico dominate the market for Mexico videos. (The irony is that I’m now on my way to Puerto Escondido for the rest of the year 🤪)!!
Awesome video. Monterrey looks like such an interesting city. I feel like we missed out on so much not going to the north of Mexico. That central plaza was impressive.
Hey Renee thanks for watching!! You have more reason to return to Mexico now, so you can make time yo explore the north! 😃 I don’t think I did the Macroplaza justice it deserved - it needed a whole video Vlog dedicated solely to itself… next time!! Let the journey to Oaxaca begin…
Really enjoyed your video! Loved the water scene at night. Looking forward to part 2, and many more videos after that! You do a fantastic job! 💕
Thank you so much Maria!! ❤️ Part two is a really fun one. Manuel more or less takes control of the video and shows his passion for Monterrey! Wait until you see the views from the mountain / cable car ruins! Breathtaking!!
Love it!! You know all the history of Monterrey cabron and that laser by night looks awesome
José!! Gracias carnal!! Si, me encanta Monterrey muchoooo!! 😍 When I return later this year/early 2022 I’ll go to San Pedro and La Huasteca. Oh man and Fundidora (it closed on me the day I was supposed to film there😝).
Great video Finn, the place looks amazing and the river at night time looks beautiful, I can’t get over the mountains in the back rounds, especially in the drone shots (which are amazing by the way) 😍 looking forward to part 2 my good man ✌️
Hey thanks amigos! The surrounding mountains are SPECTACULAR!! I had mentioned them in this video but it never made the cut. They totally dominate the city from every street or building you are in. I think some are 2000 metres in height, and they are steep as well; some are totally vertical. In part 2 I go up one of them 😃! Gracias for watching.
On Pins & needles waiting for this one :)
So much pressure😅!! I would love to go back and properly expand on each location as a seperate Vlog. Early next year I will return and spend more time and focus on one place per video rather than multiple. Part 2 has the Teleferico ruins of Cerro de la Silla (out this Saturday) 😁
That looks like the RiverWalk in San Antonio, Texas, where I live.
Hey Rick!!!! Yeah I did hear that San Antonio also has the artificial river walk as well! I would love to visit San Antonio purely to see the comparison between the one there and this one in Monterrey. Monterrey was extremely hot every day, is it the same up there in Texas during summer?
@@FinnDelMundoTravel the San Antonio River isn’t man made but is man controlled with locks to prevent flooding of downtown during Texas monsoons.
@@RickFidelisReed oh wow! Then it’s slightly different from this one in Mexico then. Prior to Santa Lucia, there were homes and vacant lots which were dug up and turned into the man-made river today. There is an anti-flooding prevention system here as well to avoid it spilling over.
In fact, Santa Lucía Riverwalk is based on the San Antonio Riverwalk.
@@JorgeSchz2004 i didn’t know that. Thanks.
For a second I was going to go trying to stick some of my magnets to my vaccine arm than I realized what you were doing there lol 😝
HAHA! I couldn’t resist the stupidity and fake stories circulating so thought I’d play on it while I had the chance 😅
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Viva!! 🇲🇽🤩
What’s the name of the romantic restaurant and what are the prices