 Wow, this is such a difficult road here. Wow, I've never seen anything like this in my life. This is crazy. Good morning world, welcome back to the channel. It's day number 378 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. And this morning we have really nice tortillas for breakfast. So we had really some difficulties to find actually vegetarian tortillas here that we decided we buy a kilo and make our own tortillas. And now we have tortillas pretty much for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Have a look here. We have some avocado, some refried black beans, some cheese, I have some mayonnaise on my one. And Oli of course, marmite. Yes. So it's a pretty, pretty nice breakfast. We are here in Mexico City staying in this love hotel mostly because it's the cheapest room in town but it's got like hearts on the wall here. It's got hearts on the bathroom door. It's got hearts on the shower. And we have a bit of a view out the window of the streets of Mexico City. It's a beautiful morning. The sun hasn't really risen above the buildings yet but after a few days of rest we are ready to hit the road again. So let me show you guys where we're heading today. So we are here and today we're gonna be heading northwest out of the city joining up with the 15D highway coming off here to finish the day near Urupan. Yes, it's time to make our way further into Mexico and we found an absolutely awesome place to finish the day. It's actually one of the world's youngest volcanoes and it's called Paracutin. It's about 270 miles away and Google estimate it will take us six hours. So we will have breakfast now and then we have to pick up everything so better hit the road, let's go. There's Deutschland, a sticker. No way, but that car is not a German car, is it? It is a VW actually. It is a VW. Yes, that's great. All right, are you ready to hit the road on day 378? Yes. All right, let's do it. Still ready. We totally forgot to give our helmets a clean. Yeah, I could have done with maybe a bit of a visor wipe. Yes. Uh oh, got a bit of a guard dog situation here. Hello. Hello. Oh, I know, oh Jesus. The last thing I wanna do is run over a dog in the morning. A cute little dog. But that dog ran up to us earlier on when we were packing up the bike and he sort of ran over to us like all big and mighty and then I was like, hello. And then he was just like ran off. Yeah. He didn't like it. In the city, city of Mexico City. Yes, unfortunately, I'm still a little bit sick and Ollie got a little bit sick as well. Got a bit of the sniffles, yeah. Yeah, so that's not too cool, but we try to get better. Yeah, that's all right. You can just take a nap, eh? Ha ha ha, I wish. I wish. Some people can sleep on bikes. I don't know how, but I've seen pictures of passengers sleeping on bikes. So maybe you can give it a go today. Oh, I don't think so. No. No. No, it sounds terrifying being asleep on the back of a motorbike. Oh my God, can you imagine? On the back of your motorbike. Yeah, probably just because it's on the back of mine, eh? Well, the first thing we've got to do is get some fuel because I'm literally blinking on empty. Opa. Hola, buenas. Hola. Gasolina regular. Yeno, gracias. Did you hear my R rolling? Yeah, how do you say, bon appetit? Bon provecho. Bon provecho. Ha ha ha ha. Price per litre is 23 Mexican pesos, which is about one pound or just over a pound, isn't it? Just over a pound, yeah. I think it's 22 to the pound, isn't it? Yes. But this time we are grabbing the 87 octane instead of the 91, just to save that little bit extra money. Yeah, let's to be honest, I have not noticed in terms of the range of the bike or the performance, I haven't noticed any difference between lower octane fuel and higher octane fuel since we started. Sometimes we've chucked in 95, sometimes we've chucked in 87. How are you? Perfecto, gracias. Perfecto, gracias. Bye bye, Mexico City, it was nice. I got sick, but it was nice. So we've seen that there's loads and loads of strawberry sellers on the side of the road. So I think this is an amazing opportunity to pick up some strawberries. Whoa, look at these little baskets. Wow. How much is it? Six pounds. Six pounds. Yeah, let's do it. Okay, I don't know where to put it though. Whoa, look at that. That's amazing. That's brilliant. Muchas gracias, muchas gracias. Are they tasty? Mm-hmm. Oh, nice. Yeah, wow. Amazing. I don't know if you guys can see, but they've got like these white tents around and I think that's where they're growing the strawberries. Do you think we went overboard? Yeah, but I love strawberries. So we will have definitely enough strawberries for the next like three days. I think so. I think so too. There's going to be a strawberry bonanza. The question is my love, where do we put it? Got payage number I think six of the day already coming up. I really didn't expect that, but yeah, we have literally like every half an hour, every hour there's a payage. Some of them are really cheap. You know, 25 pesos, about one pound or maybe two pounds. But this one is very expensive. This one is 91, which is about four pounds. They do add up. Yeah, yeah. Probably up to probably 10 or 15 pounds already today. Yeah, the road is not very good. It's very bumpy here. And because of our suspension issue, we are really bumping around the whole time. Yeah. Hola, gracias. We've got oil leaking out of our rear shock, which basically the oil is there to sort of dampen the bounciness of the suspension coil at the back. The more oil that's leaking out of that bit in the middle, basically the bouncier bumblebee is. So it's getting worse. And yeah, when we're going about 60, 65 and we're going over some bumps, we're really bouncing. Yeah. Sometimes even the tire is hitting the back of the bike. So we have to be very conscious and very careful about that. Yeah, because we don't really want to stop here in Mexico to get this shock rebuilt. We've planned to do that in San Diego when we reach the US. Fingers crossed, it's going to be okay until then. It's a bit bouncy, but it's manageable. That's the point. Yeah. Yeah, and we are not going too fast and too crazy. And if the road is quite good, we don't have too much of an issue. But this is as well a reason that we actually take the toll roads just to try to keep bumblebee safe until San Diego. Yeah, we've definitely going to do a few bits and bobs on bumblebee when we get there. Yeah, for sure. Crazy. I think they just started a fire over there. It's really smoggy here. Yeah, the countryside around here looks super, super dry. And I don't know if this is like a controlled fire ahead or like a wildfire, but it's pretty close to the road. Hey. Yeah. Well, yeah, it's right here. Hey, look at that. Wow. Yeah, that doesn't look like a manmade fire like for any purpose. Wow. Crazy. Here we are at the best restaurant in town, Lavie's Mexican kitchen. Look at that. What have we got here for lunch? Some really, really tasty vegetarian tortillas. I put some mayonnaise, some black beans, avocado. We have some onion and pepper and some cheese. Like, hello. Everything you need. Everything you need in a taco. The taco of dreams. So we're on break number two of the day. We've got about an hour and three quarters to go. It has been a long ride and it's starting to get pretty hot, but it's only half past one, so we're doing pretty good. And some nice, fresh strawberries for dessert. We have a lot of strawberries. So we're determined to keep this wonderful little basket that the strawberries came in. So we've turned it into a spice basket and we're going to try and put that inside the duffel bag. Kind of works, hey? Yeah, I mean, it's a little bit a waste of space, but the basket is so cute. 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How's it going? Don't want to car smash it into that, hey. Getting closer now and we've finally come off of the big highways and coming on to a little bit of a smaller road. After five hours or six hours. It's not about 10 miles to go and it looks like quite a nice road to finish the day. So we've reached the town of Angahuan and we're heading up to the tourist information center but this looks- Oh, yeah, that's closed, hey. I'm not sure. Oh, it is closed. Yeah. Okay. Not sure what this noise is all about. Ready? Three, two, one, go. Okay. Okay. Yeah, we've got to figure out another way. So we're currently trying to navigate through all the back streets of Angahuan trying to bypass that closed road. Center. Oh, wow, cool. That's nice. It is actually really nice here. It seems like there's a bit of an event going on, a festival type thing. Yeah. There's a house behind us. There's a house behind us. There's a house behind us. Oh, yeah. So this guy was just chasing us because he wanted to ask us to, we want to have a ride because to get to this volcano, there's a big off-road section where I don't think that we can go there with Bumblebee especially in this condition at the moment with the suspension. So we will have to see how can we make it. But he's asking as well, it's okay. Gracias, gracias. So actually at the moment, we are just having like people with horses like following us, asking us if we want a ride. Yeah, I mean, it's only so far, we can really go, I think, before it's going to become too bad for us to ride. Yeah, it's true. I mean, at the moment, we've got still another mile to go to reach the Angahuan Visitor Center. Yeah. And that is also where we're going to be trying to camp tonight because apparently you can also camp there. I think it's like 10 pounds for both of us. Yeah. So we'll go to the Visitor Center, we'll see how bad the road is to continue towards the volcano and we'll kind of decide what to do when we get there. Yeah, exactly. Wow, this is such a difficult road here. Can't believe it. Wow. Yeah, it is a bit mental. Are we going down here? Oh no, hold on a minute. Centro Turistico de Angahuan. Oh yeah, it's this one, no? Yeah, but my thing says we've got to go down here but this is absolutely wrong. My one says we're going down here. No, we've gone past now. Yes. Yeah, this road is incredibly difficult to maneuver on. Yeah. I'm going to have to go real slow here. Really slow, really slow. Look, there are cabanas and then here is perhaps a nice lookout. Let's start with that, shall we? Let's start with that and let's just arrive first because that was really stressful. Oh yeah. Oh, I can see the volcano from here. Oh wow. We're here. We've made it to arrive here. There we go. Wow. Cool. The baby volcano. There it is. Over there in the distance, volcano Paracutin. Epic view, epic view. Yeah. So what do you know about this volcano then? I might need the help of my phone for that one. Five minutes later. So this volcano Paracutin is known as one of the world's youngest volcanoes. Literally in 1942, this was just fields. There was nothing here. It didn't even exist. And then in 1943, lava started erupting from the ground and it must have been a pretty intense week because by the end of the first week, residents said that that volcano was already 100 to 150 meters high. Intense. Intense, eh? Over the next nine years, this volcano basically erupted constantly and by 1952, it was 424 meters high and it basically destroyed an area of 233 square kilometers. Two towns in the surrounding area were evacuated. This is where it gets absolutely amazing because one of these villages, San Juan Paracutino, which was evacuated, which was over there, there was a church in this village and over the nine years of eruptions, despite being surrounded completely by lava, this church actually withstood everything and is still standing today, literally half buried in molten lava. The church? Ah, cool. How is the road? Is it difficult or the road is okay? Do you think it's okay with the motorbike? No, it's really hard. You know, yeah, yeah, it's better, it's working. How far is it to walk? Walking is like 25 minutes. 35? Yeah. Is it okay to fly the drone here? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you can fly. Oh, awesome. Yeah, maybe we should walk to there. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know, you guys walk or horse, I don't know. You live here? Yeah, in the town. Amazing, what a nice place to live. Yes, really beautiful. You guys like, shower later? Maybe tomorrow, afternoon, or? Maybe. Oh, I guess the day is fine. Ha ha ha ha ha. Bye, Bubble Bee. I am really glad that we didn't try coming down here with Bumble Bee because we were like thinking about it. We were like, oh, maybe we should give it a go. People said it's possible. Look at this. Look at the sand, sand or steps. Make your choice. Ha ha ha. Seriously. There's absolutely zero chance that we could have made it down here with Bumble Bee. I think we made the right decision to go on the old socks and sandals. Ha ha ha ha. Hello. I tell you, after riding all day on this highway with all these trucks, it just feels so nice to be just walking through a beautiful forest with no traffic. It's really, really nice around here. You can hear the birds singing along. It's very beautiful. Very peaceful. I think we're going to have a really nice night here. You never know because somewhere there's a light, somewhere there's a speaker. A party comes along. Yes. It is Saturday, so really fingers crossed that this campsite doesn't become like some party camp tonight. Wow, look at this in front. So this is basically the extent of where the lava from Paracutin volcanic eruption got to. So if you look behind me, it's just forest. No sign of any recent eruptions. And then a wall of lava. Look at that. Well, so we are in the lava field now. We've got solidified lava on one side of the path and on the other. Wow, I didn't expect that today. The magical landscape. And you can see as well that cactuses growing in between. The cactuses have colonized. OK, so that's basically the end of the path. And now they've carved this little way through the lava field to go and see this church, which is just up ahead. I've never seen anything like this in my life. This is crazy. That's so impressive how this church is still standing surrounded by this lava field. And this was like molten rock going on around this church for like eight, nine years. And it withstood it. It's still there. That's magical. Have a look at this. So I'm standing, what would have been inside the church. And amazingly, the altar of the church is still intact. This is one of the reasons, other than the fact that the church is even here at all, that this place is kind of like a holy site. People come here on pilgrimages to see this place because it's said that the place was protected. It's not hard to believe, because when you see all the lava around this place, it does make you think how the place survived. Guys, this place is crazy. I mean, literally thousands of degrees lava here. Church here. It's pretty crazy to imagine that these walls are still standing. Molten lava, church that survived. Wow, what a spectacular visit. Incredible. Yeah, but as you can see behind us, that sun is coming down pretty fast. So it's time for us to head back to Bumblebee and get our camp set up. We made it, happy and alive. Yeah, we got our tent set up. We've got Bumblebee racked up and look at where we are in this forest. What an incredible spot. And we will just head over there to check out the sunset. Yeah, we are very, very close. Oh my god, it looks beautiful. Yeah, sunset. It's like a red bowl. I've also got our dinner bag because we're going to eat dinner over here whilst appreciating this vista. That's the spot right here. It's like a really, really, really red sun. Yeah, it looks like the Mars. It's crazy. And of course, we've got volcano Paracutin just over here as well, but a magical place. So we will just prepare our dinner now, our tacos. This is literally the same thing we had for breakfast and the same thing we had for lunch. 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 if you really, really, really like all our videos, you can join us on Patreon. The link is in the description below. We will see you next time. So we just got back to the tent and the security guard just came and told us that basically everyone from the festival, which is going on just over there in the town, is coming here after in like one hour. Yeah, they say 150 people. All the cabanas will be full. All the cabins, people camping. Apparently it's going to basically be, the whole festival is moving here. I can't believe it because we said just before, we were like, every time we camp, there's a party going on next to us. And then we thought we hit the jackpot tonight. We were like, beautiful, quiet forest, you know, out of the town, no one else here looked so promising. And now it's going to be absolutely crazy apparently in one hour. So we're just going to lie down and enjoy the peace for a little bit. Yes.