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videos on Mexico - really spectacular - not available any more

BajaBlanca - 10-20-2011 at 04:05 PM

I sure hope these post ... not sure if I am doing it right....


A trip through Mexico with President Calderon !!

A HELICOPTER TRIP IN MEXICO - Ojo de liebre is in there too !


PART 2


PART 3


THE LAST ONE

I think this country is absolutely amazing ... the more I see the more I want to travel around it.

[Edited on 11-8-2011 by BajaBlanca]

sanquintinsince73 - 10-20-2011 at 04:08 PM

I saw this on PBS. Really awesome to see the President in all of these adventures, even visiting with his mom.

Ken Cooke - 10-21-2011 at 08:13 AM

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Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
I saw this on PBS. Really awesome to see the President in all of these adventures, even visiting with his mom.


A fan of Ronald Reagan with a "Villiage Idiot" bumper sticker that watches PBS? Only in California!:lol:

sanquintinsince73 - 10-21-2011 at 08:21 AM

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Originally posted by Ken Cooke
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Originally posted by sanquintinsince73
I saw this on PBS. Really awesome to see the President in all of these adventures, even visiting with his mom.


A fan of Ronald Reagan with a "Villiage Idiot" bumper sticker that watches PBS? Only in California!:lol:


I like to watch anything that is good television regardless of political affiliation. I even go to Baja.......ooooooooooooohhhh.

sanquintinsince73 - 10-21-2011 at 08:24 AM

But back to the video, the Mexican Prez took alot of heat from the media in Mexico for appearing in this show. Apparently there are those who believe that he should be in Los Pinos 24-hours a day rather than trying to promote tourism in his country.

BajaBlanca - 10-21-2011 at 01:09 PM

notice that he did not drink any tequila whilst the others did.

sanquintinsince73 - 10-21-2011 at 01:12 PM

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Originally posted by BajaBlanca
notice that he did not drink any tequila whilst the others did.


I noticed. I thought the trip to "mama's" house was cool.
Matter of fact, I went to the little town called Tequila many years ago. After so many free samples of Tequila, you are totally sauced by the time you leave.

[Edited on 10-21-2011 by sanquintinsince73]

Bajahowodd - 11-7-2011 at 04:55 PM

They just had a replay of this show last night.

Interesting to see the President petting a whale.

Maybe a cynic would conjecture that this is more about damage control than anything else. But, I did find the entire show very entertaining, especially since I've been to many of these places.

In fact, when they were at Chichen Itza, although it appeared there were very few folks around (guessing that security tied the place up). Calderon and Greenberg climbed to the top of the pyramid of Kukulcan, which I have done more than once. A few years back, they banned tourists from climbing that pyramid, supposedly because of the erosion damage to a world class monument.

EmeraldDawn - 11-7-2011 at 08:07 PM

The YouTube posts aren't there any more - would it be possible to post them somewhere we could download them - possibly on Sendspace?

I have really been wanting to see this!

BajaBlanca - 11-7-2011 at 08:17 PM

sorry but I just copied the links from Utube myself .... what a shame that they are no longer available....they were great.

EmeraldDawn - 11-7-2011 at 11:02 PM

All righty - you can see it here:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xlb6j0_mexico-the-royal-tou...

The narration has been dubbed in Spanish but the conversations are all in English with Spanish subtitles, so it is mostly understandable even if your Spanish is worse than mine (it can't be!)

Really worth watching. I think it is wonderful of the president to take time to show us such wonderful things in this lovely country.