hello youtube and welcome to cio dad kayala here in guatemala city see that of course means city
and so in effect i could say that i'm out of guatemala city and i've entered into a new
city but i think it's more of a marketing thing i think the name is more to indicate that this
is a community within guatemala city that can act as an individual city it's got places people live
places people work it has beautiful walking streets like you might expect to see in
europe but of course the first thing you notice when you arrive here is the architecture it's
got this distinct white style almost like you'd expect to find in an old spanish or italian town
and what you can hopefully see is that my video quality is pretty good i'm filming
on my big camera with my big microphone this is over a thousand dollar setup here it's something
to be honest i wouldn't feel comfortable filming with in a lot of parts of guatemala city
because it is a city with security issues but the point is there are pockets of guatemala
city which are new beautiful and safe and that's what i'm going to show you today
10 steps after telling you that i felt comfortable filming here when a security
guard came up and told me in spanish that uh actually i need permission to be filming here
so i had to put my big camera away but he informed me that there's an information kiosk
a few minutes that way where i can go ask for permission so i'm gonna do that that gives us
a mission okay we're gonna go find the tourist booth together and we're gonna see if the big
camera can come back hey look at this this is kind of cool young entrepreneurs market
that's interesting but honestly even on my cell phone i think you can see
just how nice this place is as i walk into the i suppose this would be the central square
i don't actually know how big this place is but
wow
you ever seen a movie theater like that
oh yeah that's cool yeah um
oh you're doing great what what's your name my name is victor smith victor dan mucho gusto
yeah i have a youtube channel you have a youtube channel yeah yeah yeah
ah yes but i have a bigger camera in my bag i need to ask permission from the information
i don't know why but he said i should go there first yes you know i don't know why for me
n-e-w travel okay that's cool
okay here it is behind me what do you think will they say yes or no
hold up when i started this chinese and canada youtube so on youtube with the canada
me and poco video the kayla foreign
so they gave me a number um yeah i asked so this is what happened i asked the guy permission to
film and he said it's possible but you need to pay for a permit and at first i thought he was
saying 700 at first i thought he was saying 75 quetzales which is roughly 10 dollars and then
he was saying no it's 750 so it's more like 90 or 100 u.s to make a little youtube video i mean
yeah i can't pay 100 bucks to make this video with my big camera but i asked if
maybe there's a marketing department or someone who would like to see the video when it's done
and he gave me that number so you know he was nice to me the guy at the first kiosk was nice to me
the guy who walked me from the beginning to the first kiosk was very nice to me
so we're getting some nice guatemalan hospitality here for sure
but uh you know sometimes there are rules in place that you have to you have to follow
i'm gonna stick on the cell phone for today and hopefully you can still get the vibe of this
beautiful place that we're walking through
i was thinking of places to walk to let's go check out this
little entrepreneur's market that i saw on the way in
there's someone who paid the 750 quetzales behind me filming this little entrepreneurial market
it's cool i actually just met someone who i think she's a teacher or she's a
guide at the school somehow okay so we're outside of the young entrepreneurs market
and i just met sarah sarah what can you what can you tell me about this place so basically this
is a process that the kids from all ages have been doing mostly by themselves so they have to
do branding they make a logo they do haunting basically they create a business from scratch
and then they have to test and see if it's good so they have to sell it so our last question because
i know sometimes guatemalans like to watch videos like this and to know what foreign foreigners
think of their country you've been living in guatemala for how long uh 10 years 10 years
what is it that keeps you here what is it about guatemala um i think the people the weather and
i don't know i just i feel like at home here so i just really love it and i'm planning on playing
do you speak english you made all of these yourself yeah
how did you make these they're really cool i don't know how to say it but though when you like
like the way you print a t-shirt i think we say screen printing yeah screen printing oh cool
best 15 q i ever spent this is like two us dollars
all these restaurants make me hungry over here
you know i was looking at some of the footage from this phone and in all honesty
some of it's almost as good as my bigger camera
it's just the audio where it suffers i like to have the mic on top but you know when you're
walking around a beautiful little community like this it's hard to worry about anything
oh wow is this place serving crepes in an old boss that's pretty cool
so is this the experience that all guatemalans have beautiful walking streets with high schoolers
who speak fluent english next to high-end restaurants next next to buses that serve crepes
if you've been watching my video series you already know the answer is no
but you know i find that travelers too often generalize about the places they visit
and they only think of a country as one thing or one particular set of images and what i want to
show you today is that guatemala city has a side that you really might not expect and of course
whether you're in the small towns or the big cities one thing you get everywhere in guatemala
is that world-class hospitality let me just think about the guy who went five minutes out of his way
to walk me to the information booth now do the information booth allow me to keep filming no but
here i am with my cell phone making the best of it that's all you can do as a traveler right keep
an open mind make the best of the moments you have and just take a moment to appreciate where you are
anyway i'm getting hungry i'm gonna go appreciate myself some lunch
there's so many good-looking restaurants here i don't know which to choose i'm sure
i'll find something and i'll leave you with those shots to end today's video
as always i'm dan from the new travel hope you enjoyed this one and i'll see you next time
thank you
bye