Visiting the LARGEST market in Central America!! (Chichicastenango, Guatemala)

good morning y'all from lake atitlan guatemala today we're going to be traveling to a little town called chichi casta tango i hope i'm saying that right and there they have the biggest market in all of central america every sunday so to get there we got to get on one of these boats then we got to get in shuttle so it might be quite a journey and we got to get started so join us let's go josh got the best part of the cabin yeah look it look at my little crib he was up here smoking zoops and shag and sheilas last night an average day at the office the road over there is under like big construction so there's redirecting everybody through this car wash instead [Music] sick [Music] we made it to chichi all the streets are crazy busy because there's so many people coming from out of town to sell their goods it's not just a local market people come from all over to chichi did you ever go to like a busy place with your parents and they make you wear like ridiculous colors so they could find you in a crowd um that was my parents when we went to like ski hills and stuff like i had to wear like a rage just like colored snow pants like make sure i could see you don't go out of our sights boys see he's got the right idea [Music] that's my favorite part of my culture is baby knapsacks yeah for real oh my gosh this place is crowded [Music] [Music] ah yes not for him he's picky you do you make these my mom your mom you work with yourself family business can i see um this is my job in guatemala they have a lot of uh jade is that yes this is jay and so where where in guatemala do they get all the jade this is from zakapa zakappa that's a region in guatemala where they find where where does jade come from like rivers or do they have to mine it how do you make jade it's a mikey this is ground this is uh i'm from it comes from this yes this is a volcanic storm oh okay because there's so many there's so many volcanoes it comes from the volcanic stone this stuff is beautiful yes this is pirate this is a stone pyrite yes okay and that also comes from not on the guard it also comes from volcanoes cool how much would you sell these for this one this is 200 okay cool this one is a dependency oh bandit yes yeah nice this is seventy five seventy five ten us dollars this one this is jade and the mayan car in dermont yeah january february april which one wait which one's april april they all look the same to me i think he's fibbing a good way to tell if it's jay yeah is to see if it's cold oh really it's always cold that is kind of cold i'd say honestly i don't care too much i just want to help a homeboy out you're coming to hamas mucho gusto nice to meet you and and how much are these this one this is a hundred kittens a hundred capsules yes this is very strong this is on the jade original jake yeah the factory jet and kilowatt amount is different can can you do it you do here give you 60. okay that's a good deal you know buy two special price more special price i'll be honest yes um i don't buy jewelry too much but you're a cool guy and if it's fine i'm making a video that's cool thank you yeah okay tell what what do you want the people to know about your shop yeah what do you want to do my shop this is mayan shop this is a original store from guatemala no china no china okay well i'm glad you got me looking like a hippie thank you thank you i got that good and this is april right yes okay my birthday is april okay thank you very much sir thank you good stuff this is born okay um dude do many people smoke weed here yeah but do many people in guatemala smoke weed marijuana you don't wanna you just don't wanna stay in front of your mom [Music] no i'm good with this but thank you so much man have a great day have a nice day look at that well there you go i'm not one to wear jewelry what do you see get diana's oh my gosh businesses you have competition it is busy man what i don't like is that we are being surrounded because they think we will buy things but i'll be honest we do not need pointless knick-knacks let's get up here on the church and figure it out do you see them [Music] they'll come back we'll come back and look at that we got distracted by all the vendors selling flutes and musical instruments and now we're lost [Music] i don't know where our friends went do you want to look down that way yeah okay i was definitely overcharged because that guy went down to 60 real quick i respect the hustle i would have liked any market i've ever been to this is the one of the most see you see this so there are people like hey come here no gracias amigo but watch like every ever see he said it everything we pass everyone's just like come here come see what we have stuff no gracias amigo i might start asking how much are they selling the flutes for because that guy started at 120. yeah exactly this guy's still here he's still here i just don't understand he doesn't understand that we just don't want to flute let's go this way yeah exactly that's what we're trying to say we do respect the hustle but like it's something we don't want in our small suitcases hey hi guys it was really good i want in here this is great band what is for seeing you here and then i'm uh moy alto these are these seats are made for mayan people [Music] [Music] uh look at that [Music] i reckon it will be like a hot horse shutter [Music] it's good it's sweet it's creamy you got a little piece of rice in there and give it a solid seven out of ten there's only four cotales cat complain okay [Music] my favorite part of guatemala is kid backpacks yeah they're great that kid was selling medicine i wanna i wanna see what's going on what the commotion is okay i don't know i don't know they told me not to film okay oh why are these puppies sad about these [Music] gracias the little kitty in the same bin as the ducks the boy likes me the boy likes me [Music] these dogs [Music] someone's gonna buy you soon and give you so much love they're gonna love you so much i'm sorry i can't buy you right now definitely a hard sight to see but it's just how things are here and whether i like it or not it's gonna happen so you just gotta accept it and observe but if they are gonna be tied up like this least i can do is give them a little bit of love until they go to a nice happy home you hate josh goes i hate humans so yeah okay ah questions goofy thomas is donald trump an ambree he's an orange man he's an orange man okay good stuff solo hablas espanol from 1800 oh 1894. wow that's that's amazing stuff using for my peep here use it for the inn uh for earrings yeah sure it's all very cool stuff sir i don't know i don't have earrings can you can you pierce my ears where do i go to pierce my ears i would put that in my ear okay thank you for showing me sir i don't think i need it right now okay have a great day come on come thomas nolan mucho gusto amigo are you looking for more stuff to put in your ears that's what i'm looking for this is cute these look at these little things yeah no it's uh it's jesus it's like the oh it's juan jesus yeah juan jesus jesus you are a wise man oh thank you by my necklace yes very much oh that's so cool what is this uh something it's a full buttload of something i'm liking it look at all these beautiful um like this guy look at this guy right here he's got a cowboy hot on look at his pants his cane dripping swag that's right it has this like actually fake almost aftertaste about a banana apple so can you describe it one more time for me it's like it's like a banana and everywhere like consistency and like texture obviously it looks like a banana yeah there's like this like aftertaste of an apple juice i'll be trying but i'm pretty good slightly it's more so a banana e2 gusto yeah i do get that slight appley aftertaste [Music] oh the whole thing gracias okay he gave me the rest of this um our grandparents generation a mango yeah yeah i love you eating them with the peels i mean it's not the best because health-wise mucho garcia's pedro paso gusto amigo is [Music] um you know what that is 10 but it's fine for a 10. i thought it was only a fiver in my pocket i was fine with that but i gave him 10 which is i'm still fine with that let's do it yeah uh [Music] josh we're twinning are you just gonna put it on your head now yeah oh you got him down to quarenta it's a good steel i've been tapping my out i didn't have another chance great stuff mate we're gonna be twinning now we got some [Music] uh [Music] it is incredible more leche on top [Music] too bad i don't have three hands or else i could film my experience ah at least i could go for the straw going from the straw right from the bottom where all the syrup is it is sweet look at this look at this there are so many people coming in and out of the city today it's so loud to bend their goods just outside the market the streets are so crowded with little collectibles and chicken buses and there's just so many people trying to get into the city it's outrageous this table you're right this table is moving by itself yeah clubs oh they have these crabs and they're they're wrapped in the banana leaf oh my god very cool stand sir oh a little doggo and chicharon i like this little stand i got cheat your own and a bunch of other dried dried murder wow confetti oh i would like one of those pretty good yeah let's let's sit and [Music] [Music] it's like really creamy it's like the chicken is in like a sauce it's like very meowy but it's good cheers [Music] i buried my straw in there but i've never been so excited for a gatorade in my life it's a glass bottle gracias adios we left the market and came to the edge of town here where we found this beautiful colorful cemetery i think it's just a great spot to wrap things up what a fun day we just had in chichi castanego at their weekly sunday market we're going to be in guatemala for maybe a couple more weeks and throughout the rest of central america so subscribe jump on board we have some crazy adventures thanks for clicking into this video guys peace

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Length: 23min 28sec (1408 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 17 2021