 Okay, I'm not gonna go around this one. This fellow with a big machine gun waiting there. Good morning world, welcome back to the channel. It's day number 373 on our second navigation around the globe by motorcycle. We are here in Palenque in Mexico and yesterday we visited the ancient Maya city that gives this place its name. It was an incredibly cool place to visit but it was an incredibly hot day. So we decided yesterday not to ride any further and just to come back to this awesome place and basically spend the whole day in the air conditioning. But last night there was a crazy rainstorm so it's really cooled down now and it is pretty fresh this morning. It's probably like 28 degrees. Yes. Which is about as cool as you can get at the moment here in Palenque. But today we are ready to hit the road. We are ready to make our way into Mexico. So let me show you guys the route for today. So we are here and today we're gonna be making our way west towards Mexico city. So we're basically gonna be following this road cross country as far as we can go. Yes, our next destination is Mexico city and our navigation says it will take us 11 hours. So we probably won't reach that today but we get as far as we can. It's already 730 so better hit the road, let's go. Does the bearing look okay still? Yeah? Every time I jump on the bike, Sizzap, our security system inside gives me a notification. It's like an authorized movement of the bumble bee. I always think that's so cute. Thanks Sizzap. All right, let's ride. Let's ride. Go over this little bridge. This area here is quite touristic but very beautiful. You could have spent like two weeks or something in this area here. It's so nice. They got these beautiful cobbled streets. They got all these really nice restaurants. We went out into town yesterday and had some local food. What were they called? It was pretty much a fried tortilla with vegetables and some cheese. Oh, I think they were quesadillas yesterday. I love it. Quesadillas, cheese and vegetables inside a beautiful fried tortilla. And oh my God, it was nice. Yes. So, but now let's go to a Mexico city. Yeah, it's time to explore a little bit of country number 20 on our journey around the world. So it was so awesome yesterday to get to see another of these amazing Mayan ancient cities. And the city of Palenque is actually one of the best and most elaborate examples of the architecture of the Mayan civilization. This city spanned from about 226 BC to 800 AD. So a thousand years of development and growth and expansion. And you can really see where we were there. Just the extent of these buildings, they were absolutely fantastic. But just like Tikal that we visited in Guatemala by the ninth century, these cities had been completely abandoned. And as it does, the jungle came and reclaimed the place. And now you just got this beautiful combination of dense rainforest, sounds of the monkeys in the background and these awesome, beautiful structures. Just coming up to military post number like, I don't know, four or five for the day. We've actually been stopped already by one of them. Not all of them are stopping us, but one of them did stop us and checked my passport, checked Lavi's passport for our entry stamps. I guess there's quite a lot of control for people heading North. Immigration control, drug control. Okay, I'm not gonna go around this one. No. This fellow with a big machine gun waiting there. Yeah. Hey, it looks all right. It didn't stop us, which is good. Yeah. A lot of people selling stuff, including that guy and this guy selling parakeets. Oh, I really don't like that. No, absolutely. Do not agree with selling parakeets on the side of the road. No. Oh. That's the poop bird. I really don't like to see that. No, that's not very nice. Yes, skip to the front of the queue. That's the motorcycle way. So it looks like there's another fellow here. Okay. I don't know what these got in his hand. I think a torch for some reason. I don't know what that means. I don't know if that meant stop, go. I don't know. And there was another guy waving, but I don't know. It's always quite confusing, but anyway. Now we are through. And apparently there's like a restaurant coming up in four minutes. And they've got quesadillas there, hey? Yes. Oh yeah, so I'm excited about that. Me too. Yeah, we did incredibly good this morning. We did already 166 miles so far. We've had a very, very nice, easy, smooth road. Well, relatively smooth. We are bouncing around on our dodgy suspension a little bit, but it's just about okay. And it's just been really nice actually. It's been really, really calm. Yeah. Wow, look at this river. Wow. Cool. That's a big river. Yeah, crazy. Crocs, crocs, crocs, crocs, crocs. Yeah, there's definitely going to be crocs in that one. Yeah, 166 miles down. Time for a break. Be open, be open, be open, be open. Here, here, here, here. Yes. Here we go. Wow, look at this place. Wow. That looks deluxe. That looks nice. Let's hope that it's not too expensive. Yeah. Oh, it's got AC and we still got a good eye on Bumblebee, kind of. Yeah. Buenos dias. Buenos dias. Buenos dias. All right. Let's see what they got. So, quesadillas are like 30, 40 pesos. How much is 40 pesos? Gracias. Look at that. We just sat down and we get like six sources. We haven't even ordered yet. One pound, seven pesos. Oh, wow. One pound, eight pesos. So, it's like one pound, eight pesos for a quesadilla. That's not bad. Yeah. Two each? Something like two each, maybe. Okay. Nice. Look how many tequilas they have on the menu. This is the entire tequila section. And keep in mind that this is like a roadside stop as well. And it's like a balloon tequilas. So what have we got for lunch? We have some really nice cheese and vegetable quesadillas. This one here is potato with some mozzarella cheese, maybe. Here's another one with some green stuff. I don't know exactly what that is. We can as well put some black beans in there because we ordered some black beans as an extra. They gave us some nacho chips. Yes. And we have some really nice pineapple juice. And that's all for 245 Mexican pesos, which is about 11 pesos. That's a pretty good price. And we have to try all of these sauces. Got green one. Wow. What was that? Spicy. Spicy? Ooh. Pineapple juice, pineapple juice. Got ourselves another little checkpoint here. Yeah, it's passed through. Even though we don't have anything on us, it's always a little bit like... Yeah, you always feel a little bit relieved when you get through. Yes, on my way. I passed the test. Yes. I passed the Mexican police test. So we're all lunched up and back on the highway. And I thought this would be a good time to tell you guys a little bit about country number 20 on our journey around the world, Mexico. So Mexico is the 13th largest country in the world by area and the 10th most populous country with 126 million people. It also has the most Spanish speakers of any country in the world. But alongside Spanish, it also has 86 other recognized languages. The area, which is now modern-day Mexico, has been home to people since at least 8,000 BC. And it's known as one of the six cradles of civilization. It's been home to many major civilizations, like the Maya that we saw in Palenque. But the last major civilization were the Aztecs who dominated the region in the century before Europeans arrived. In 1521, the Spanish arrived, and they soon conquered the Aztecs and turned the Aztec capital to Noctitlan into what is now the capital of Mexico, Mexico City. This new Spanish colony was called New Spain. Which is not very inventive. 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You will find the link in the description below. Not only will you be ensuring your own health and safety whilst travelling the world, but you'll also be showing the world what an amazing sponsor we are. So guys, stay healthy, safe travels and now back to the video. All right, second fuel up in Mexico. We've got to film the first one. So we're filming the second one instead. Hola, buenas. So they've got two types of fuel here, 87 and 92, which are called Magna and Premium. Okay, Premium, gracias. We'll go for the 92, eh? Why not? We'll treat ourselves. One pound ten. One pound ten per litre. Yeah, that's not expensive. Maybe we have to go for Magna next time. Oh, definitely. Perfecto, gracias. Perfecto. 362, 16 pounds, yeah. 16 pounds. Wow, yeah, it's not actually super cheap. No. I think we spent nearly 30 pounds in fuel today. Oh my God. Really? Okay. Yeah, because we've done 250 miles already, riding can be expensive when you ride really far. Muchas gracias. Muchas gracias. Okay, chao. Chao, chao. Hola, buenas. Jugo de piña? Sí. 35 litro. 35 uno litro. Oh, okay. It's 36 litro. Okay, uno litro. Gracias. Perfect. Cool. So this person is just selling a lot of pineapples and pineapple juice. And then one is 15. One is 15. Yeah, which is really cheap. Okay. So we should get one. Okay. And this for later. No, which one? Oh, this one. Okay, perfect. Yeah, I got to drink some now. I am hot. Yeah, I'm cool. The temperature has gone up. It's like now on the bike recording 35 degrees. It's hot. Very refreshing, hey? Yes. And like the lady in Panama said, that pineapple really cools you down. Yeah. So we need at least one litre of pineapple juice. So I just asked the woman working here where the pineapples were from and she just pointed like right over there. So I think there's a pineapple field literally just here. So we're just going to ride down this little road and see if there really is a pineapple field. Gracias. It was really nice and tasty. Yeah. Yeah, I think this is our pineapple here. I think there's a pineapple on the road. Wait a minute, let me just stop here. Yeah. Yeah, this is pineapple fields. Nice. Cool. Basically they grow in a single stem like a sort of fern type thing. And then they just basically the pineapple grows on the top of them. They cut the pineapple off, it looks like the rest of it just dies away. That's so cool. We basically just had pineapple that was grown right here and then sold right there and drunk by us. Those are awesome. I also just realised that we just hit 25,000 miles on the road. So it's currently 4pm and we've got about one more hour to ride on this highway. We've found an auto hotel called Auto Hotel Jasmine in a town called La Tinaja and it's about 60 miles down this highway and it's been a long, long, long ride 288 miles so far. So I'm looking forward to getting off this bike. Yeah, definitely. A lot of straight road today. Yeah. Wow. Hola. Hola. Hola. Hola. Hola. Hola. Hola. Hola. Hola. 300. 300. 300, ok. 150. 320. No. No problem with the... Taja. Taja. Declined. Why? At the moment we can't get any money from the ATM which is not great because we don't have a lot of cash and the hotel is cash only so... Yeah. So TransferWise is saying basically that they can't pay them so they can't give us the money basically. So it's not working. I'll have to check. So luckily we managed to get cash on my UK card but they charged me a crazy exchange rate so I just withdrew like about £70 worth of pesos and they charged my account £84. £13 in like conversion markup and ATM fees so it's a bit of a mistake to be honest arriving here and not having any cash anyway. Yeah, I mean if your budget is so tight then £15 is so much. Well yeah, it basically breaks our budget for today and it makes our cheap hotel room that was going to be like £13-14 basically like nearly £30 hotel room. Yeah. Let's get to the room. Number 9. Number 9. Gracias, muchas gracias. Oh, mañana 7.30. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. it looks a little bit like a horror movie. It does really doesn't it? Yeah it looks like you can't produce a good good horror movie here. Does that have a light? Oh it does. Spacious shower. There's no seat and no back on the toilet. It's like 15 pound 60. I mean it's cheap-ish but to be fair like yeah yeah I would rather sleep outside. But it is really hot and there is air conditioning in here. Does it work? Please work. Oh if we can at least be cool in here overnight then I'm happy. The air conditioning is working. Can you believe it? Oh it's so nice. At least one big plus here being in this room. But despite this room quality I'm sure we will have a good night here because it was the longest ride 350 miles. Pretty crazy. So we got all our stuff here up and we're just loading up the footage. We will have an early night tonight because tomorrow we will head into Mexico City. And that's it from us today. We hope you enjoyed the video. If so please give us a thumbs up, subscribe to the channel, share the video with your friends and family, comment below and we will see you next time.