BEST HIKING AROUND MEXICO CITY! | Parque Nacional Izta Popo and Desierto De Los Leones | CDMX
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Hey guys! In this video we show you some of the best hiking around Mexico City from Parque Nacional Izta Popo to Desierto de los Leones! These national parks are both easy day trips from CDMX and offer the most stunning views of active volcanoes, the valley of Mexico and Mexico City itself!
This is our final Mexico City video and we couldn't have asked for a better way to finish our trip here! We love the city but we definitely love nature more and these two national parks were a joy to explore! Enjoy the video :)
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SONGS USED IN THIS VIDEO:
Leaving Gravity - Aiyo
Midnight Sunlight - Tape Machines
Spaces - Phello
Twenty Eleven - Rocket Jr
Inspiration - Megan Wofford
Wrote You A Letter (Instrumental Version) - Candelion
Deep and Abiding (Instrumental Version) - Victor Lundberg
Back To The Wild (Instrumental Version) - Pastis
Today Is a Good Day to Live (Instrumental Version) - John T. Graham
Cooper's Island - Martin Klem
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00:00 - Intro
00:23 - Welcome to Izta Popo National Park!
01:21 - Hiking Up Izta Volcano
01:55 - About Izta Popo National Park
02:36 - Incredible Viewpoint!
04:15 - How to Get to Izta Popo on Public Transport
05:33 - Altitude Training!
06:17 - Hiking Down to Paso de Cortes
07:13 - Welcome to Desierto de los Leones National Park!
08:38 - What's with the name? (Desert of Lions?!)
09:34 - Hiking to the Monastery
10:00 - Desierto de los Leones Monastery
10:41 - Navigating in the National Park - Easy or Hard?
11:39 - Viewpoint Hunting and Massive Pinecones!
12:26 - We found a viewpoint!!
14:10 - Outro
14:36 - Next Time!
wow, the view looks so unreal! I‘m always in such a good mood after your videos :) Also love the choice of music to underline the viewpoint 😂
Glad you are enjoying the videos 😊 Really amazing views! Haha thanks 😅
great video! couple questions for you:
1.) How long was the ride to itzo popo?
2.) How long did the hike take?
3.) How difficult of a hike was it?
4.) Is the total trip- to get there, hike, and back to CDMX enough for a full day trip? or less?
Thank you! 😊 in answer to your questions:
1. Probably about 1:30-2hours on the bus to Amecameca from Mexico City but you also have to get to the bus station first and then it’s about a 40min taxi ride to the trail head from Amecameca. We got a bus from Mexico City at 7am and started hiking around 10am.
2. Around 3-4 hours depending on your speed
3. Quite difficult heading up to the viewpoint we went to due to the altitude and the terrain being slippy. Pretty easy on the way down as it’s a nice trail all the way.
4. You will need a full day to do this trip for sure if you’re taking public transport.
For more info check out our blog - it has way more info: kittiaroundtheworld.com/ultimate-guide-to-hiking-in-izta-popo-national-park-mexico/
Loved the video! And so glad you got to see the views!
Thanks Karan 😊 they were amazing!! 😍
So beautiful! Really makes you want to get out there and into the outdoors.
Thanks for watching! Hope you can get out into nature soon 😊👍
Breathtaking views! I kinda miss your awesome drone shots, they would have been incredible there!
They were amazing! Yes we miss them too...we decided early on in Mexico that we weren't going to use our drone there because of some information we had read that foreigners aren't legally allowed to fly in the country. However, I think we took it a bit too seriously as we have watched many videos on UA-cam from Mexico where people have flown their drones with no issues! Now stuck with using whatever average quality free stock footage I can find online! But the drone will be making a comeback once we move on from Mexico to our next country! :)
Love this! Just to let you know the highest mountain or volcano in Mexico is actually Pico de Orizaba :)
Thank you! 😊 and thanks for the info 😊👍
Great video and info. Amazing views. Saludos!
Thanks so much! The views were incredible :)
We really enjoyed this video! Our last hike was Mount Fitz Roy in Argentina and boy that was a tough hike! This one seemed pretty easy! loved that you guys had this entire place to yourselves!
Awesome hike!
Thanks guys! Very jealous of your hike in Argentina...we would have loved the chance to visit Patagonia on this trip but alas it wasn't to be! We will have to come back 😊 it was a beautiful and peaceful place and all downhill...perfect 👍
Well made video and informative. I honestly could sit there all day watching that volcano belching out that gas all day. We go Mexico next year but the Yucatan peninsula do looking do places like chichen itza etc
So could we! It was a beautiful view 😍 nice...we went to Yucatan but were sick the entire time we were there so really didn't see anything! Look forward to seeing it through your videos 😊
Informative video! I went to Desierto de los Leones last year but didn't have a map, so I mostly hiked the paths around the monastery area (I couldn't enter the monastery itself because I'd brought my dog). Was your walk from the bus stop to the monastery along the road, or is there a trail? Was it hard to follow the map with the trails not being marked?
Thanks Trish! We initially had to walk along a dirt road for maybe 1 km before the road ended and the trail began. We felt fine walking along the road and the trail is easy to find at the end of it. It definitely can be confusing...we had an offline All Trails map on our phones and even with that we were stopping and confirming we were on the right path a lot. The most difficult part was the area leading away from the monastery as there are many criss-crossing paths, some are blocked off as well, but overall if you plan ahead and have an offline map with you you should be able to navigate okay :)
Hello guys great video! I was wondering when did you do this hike? I saw some other videos that a reservation was needed to hike die to COVID. Also how much was the taxi from the bus point to 4000 meters?
Hey James 👋 thanks for watching! We did the hike at the end of December 2021 and didn't need a reservation. We just had to fill in a form with our details and intended walking route at Paso de Cortes before we entered the park and pay the entry fee and we were all good 👍 the taxi to 4000m cost 400 pesos (roughly $20) and back from Paso de Cortes to the bus station cost about 300 pesos.
México tiene todos los climas gran naturaleza biodiversidad de flora y fauna. México es muy grande en México caben 21 países de la unión europea, visiten el Nevado de Toluca
Mexico is a huge and beautiful country 😍 ❤️ we loved our visit!
Did you guys did the hiking yourself or with a guide?
Just by ourselves 😊 it's super easy to do by yourself...the only difficult bit is getting there if you don't have a car. Otherwise the trail is very straightforward 👍
Kitti Jon wow 🤩 fabulous Hikes the first though to the high volcanoes (simply stunning) ⛰🙏🏼😊
Oh I’ve never seen pine cones as big as those either 😳
Great video
Best wishes Simon 😊👍
Thanks Simon 😊 yeah the volcanoes hike was definitely our favourite 😍 but we enjoyed how wild and off the beaten path the second hike was...didn't see another tourist the whole way round (+ the pine cones!) 😊
@@KittiandJon a fabulous place 😊🙏🏼
Thanks again guy’s 👍😊