This REBUILT City In Guatemala Is Absolutely BREATHTAKING

This REBUILT City In Guatemala Is Absolutely BREATHTAKING
They rebuilt this city in Guatemala and it’s stunning. Everything is brand new, and it's not just the architecture that's impressive. It might even make us reconsider how we should build cities. The name of this city is Cayalá.
Try taking a stroll around much of Guatemala City and you’ll quickly realize; it's a pedestrian's nightmare. Motorcycles race down busy sidewalks. Guards wielding rifles gaze at passers-by, assessing potential threats. Buses blowing smoke through stop signs. However, nestled within the turbulent capital's crazy-quilt sprawl, there is a dreamy refuge where none of this occurs. Cayalá, which roughly translates as "paradise", embodies this reality.
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[@aereo1973]

The Streets of Guatemala ciy are not full of crime. that comment is bullshit !!!

[@Quetzal0te]

Kind of racist and supremacist. Only Oakland, SF, Portland and Chicago are all clean and all good.

[@delmarramirez6940]

Let’s be realistic, I’m Guatemalan and indeed, the streets are full of crime. Every country has its violence but Guatemala’s is higher.

[@Quetzal0te]

@@delmarramirez6940 No, it's obvously an exageration with a slightly Spice UP of racism ans supremacism to a small and indigenous country. But Karma will do it's justice, Guatemala will keep getting better regardless of the true intentions of videos such as these.

[@delmarramirez6940]

@@Quetzal0te I live in Guatemala City, I’m telling you the crime is high. People get robbed even in their cars while in the streets! There are even shootings in luxurious malls like “Centro Comercial Miraflores”. Crime is high in Guatemala, and the government does a very poor job to solve this issue.

[@user-tu9cr6sq3v]

Guatemala is not full of crime, there are Places like all countries that have crime, is not true about insecurity in all the country, in general Guatemala is safety. Not only in Cayala City.

[@UrbanCityExplorer_]

Thank you for the clarification. We'll make sure to be more attentive in the future.

[@Quetzal0te]

A little "supremacist" to imply Guatemalans are not free to choose their own progress or status in life (or vote democratically) Southern California is more segregated, inequality more extreme, with higher poverty, crime, disorder, lawlessnes and homeless than Guatemala city and all of Guatemala. Guatemalans didn't defeat Comunism in the longest Civil War because they didn't believe in freedom of opportunity (not of outcomes) or because they rejected progess or hated wealth, art, success and beauty. The Mayans (gutemalans grandparents) had grandiose architecture, thousands of beautiful grand buildings and infrastructure and were wealthier than europe at their classic hights. Indeed, Guatemala has the largest economy in all of central america, number 9 in all of Latin America and Guatemala city is the wealthiest, largest, greenest, most cultural and cosmopolitan between Mexico City and Bogota colombia. ✌️ #GuatemalaCity 🇬🇹

[@carlosportillo6574]

Thank 😊 you!! For your support telling the world 🌎 that true 👍

[@derwillmehrsein]

Qué comentario más ignorante. Ciudad de Guatemala sigue siendo una de las ciudades más inseguras del mundo - a pesar de Cayala.

[@Quetzal0te]

@@derwillmehrsein No. Vivo es USA, Guate es menos peligroso que Mexico y Estados Unidos. La gente envidiosa sigue hablando mal de guate pero Guate siempre mejorando digan lo que digan

[@raulbarrera7894]

This video is exactly why tourists stay away from Guatemala City . Is not true that crime is at every corner . Yes , we do have our social problems like any other country in the world .

[@derwillmehrsein]

No, it's not like in any other country. Stop telling lies. Guatemala City is (statistics prove it) a very dangerous city. At night, you see almost nobody walking on the streets.

[@UrbanCityExplorer_]

Thank you for your feedback and clearing that up. We're just starting out and thought we researched the topic well enough, as we based our information off numerous articles. But we'll definitely be more mindful of this in the future.

[@howdareyou5800]

guatemala city is not only ugly as F but indeed its crime rate its high de todos modos papá quien puts va a querer ver esta ciudadita, a la antigua guatemala se van y ya

[@ohcanada6085]

Not just that I'm Canadian and Guatemalan if you ever go to Vancouver Hastings your point will be proven...

[@porsinolosabes...8598]

BBC reconoce a Guatemala como uno de los 10 mejores destinos turísticos del mundo en el plano cultural.

[@howdareyou5800]

a que bien, el reconocimiento de los britanicos es lo que nos da la validación

[@porsinolosabes...8598]

Nat Geo recomienda a Guatemala como uno de los países que es necesario visitar al menos una vez en la vida, por su increíble belleza y su enorme riqueza cultural, natural y gastronomica.

[@howdareyou5800]

es un lugar de mero turismo decis vos nada más

[@ennioivan9077]

Yo vivo en argentina buenos aires y aqui me an asaltado dos beses y en Guatemala camine muchas calles y en buses y nunca me asaltaron a Dios gracias

[@user-xd7os6ns3x]

I lived in the states for several years and Guathemala is sager than: Miami,illinois, boston, all of the cities in california new york and the list goes on and on You can bike your way throught most of guatemala city. Guatemala ciry is nice and Green and much much more clean than most of the cities of the us, All that aside,,,,CAYALA is very nice and in continuos expansión and there os mothing like it in the rest of latin america and many other parts of the world.

[@howdareyou5800]

still a horrible place to live, with too much crime and now, please, compare guatemala city poverty with miami, illinois, boston all of the cities in california, new york and so on You can get under a camioneta like a dead dog in your bike guatemala ciRy has many infants starving...but its green All that aside...Cayala is an overvalued open air mall

[@user-xd7os6ns3x]

​@@howdareyou5800 No,, it is not a horrible place to live. Your house and certanly the state and city in the US. are horrible but not Guatemala..... and cayala.... i can garantie without a doubt that you and your horrible family and your horrible atitude would very galdly move immediately yo cayala at the first chance yuod get... Your horribleness wil go with you anywhere youd go. Its a question of mind over matter.....we dont mind cus you dont matter....lol

[@titools4375]

@@howdareyou5800 You really got mad because someone said that is safer than all of those cities in US (which by the way US is not America as you guys call it, America is the whole continent, you're just part of the whole continent in North America, shame on all ignorants) of course there is poverty in Guatemala, Just like in US, I lived there for 9 years and even though I liked it, is true, I was at Fordham, Harlem, and places 1000000 x more dangerous than all the dangerous zones in Guatemal, also, what about Los Angeles? and a whole other list of states that if put together you'd have 2 or 3 Guatemalas full of crime and also poverty, oh and let's not forget about drugs, which is a big big problem you guys will never get out of. One time I got lost driving in Bronx and I was so scared to see how a lot of guys were surrounding a fire lit in a cyilinder and they just turned to see us as we passed by with their I-wanna-kill-you face looking directly at us so don't come to me with that bull$h17 and try to make it look like is all heaven and candy in the sky all accross the US (not America, US) is not true, and you haven't even been here so making a judgment for a place you don't know or were told about for another person who hasn't been here either it seems to me like you have no intelligence or personality and live on others' review to make yourself look like you know something about it! hahaha don't make me laugh if you get rolled over is because the idiot is you not the driver, as opposite in the US, senior citizens or just stupid people who run into a bussines by crossing the side walk immediately after just starting the engine hahahaha how stupid is that? dumb a$$3$ all people who thinks like you.

[@porsinolosabes...8598]

Guatemala es uno de los 19 países megadiversos del mundo.

[@howdareyou5800]

megadiversos en pobreza y criminalidad, si

[@rudolphparedes9856]

Cayalá es un centro comercial al aire libre y tambien habitacional. Guatemala city tiene poco crimen. el tipo que narra este video, esta mal informado y a de ser de costa rica... Cayalá es diferente, un lugar diferente y para pasear, no es barato para hacer compras o degustar la gastronomía, pero accesible a la población... Cayalá, es también un centro turístico, dada su arquitectura y paseos........!

[@howdareyou5800]

si claro, tiene poco crimen como una ciudad europea y es igual de rica

[@carlosquiroa3590]

Cayala Guatemala it's very lovely and Stunning fine arquitecture!

[@porsinolosabes...8598]

Revista VOGUE recomienda a Guatemala como uno de los 12 mejores destinos turísticos del mundo para el 2023. Otros son Roma, Tokio, Málaga entre otros.

[@howdareyou5800]

entendes que guatemala es un país y roma, tokio, málaga son ciudades? estamos hablando de la muy pobre y criminal ciudad del valle de la asunción también conocida como ciudad de guatemala

[@carlosquiroa3590]

Yes it's, so beautiful indeed, Guatelinda Rocks ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@delmarramirez6940]

Don’t change the name, it’s Guatemala not, Guatelinda. It’s in Nahuatl, not Spanish.

[@porsinolosabes...8598]

Guatemala es la cuna y corazón de la civilización Maya, una de las 8 mas importantes en la historia de la humanidad.

[@howdareyou5800]

contradicción de base de su propio significado guatemala no se dió sino hasta despues de la conquista española y la fragmentacion de la confederación de centro america los mayas habían desaparecido hacia ya mucho, luego vinieron olmecas del norte a habitar incluso el nombre guatemala viene del méjica que significa 'el lugar más allá de los arboles' pero seguí fantaseando si te ayuda a vivir

[@porsinolosabes...8598]

@@howdareyou5800 Cuando hablamos de Guatemala, indefectiblementa nos referimos a lo que hoy día es el estado de Guatemala. Al atreverse alguien a contradecir un comentario, es menester que el que irrumpe, sepa de que esta hablando. La conformación de un estado de da al llenar 3 requisitos. Territorio, población y legislación. La civilización Maya tuvo sus inicios en las tierras altas del actual departamento guatemalteco de Huehuetenango, durante la prehistoria. De allí migraron a la tierras bajas del actual departamento guatemalteco de El Petén, dandose allí el inicio de su desarrollo como civilización, originando el periodo pre clásico temprano. Evidencia de territorialidad de los mayas. La población actual de Guatemala, tiene ascendencia maya; evidenciado en el genotipo y fenotipo de la misma, además de un sin sin de rasgos culturales y linguisticos. Se pueden apreciar más de 22 idiomas ancestrales vivos y hablados en Guatemala. Tercer punto, legislación, la cual en Guatemala aún se aplica en muchas comunidades como su derecho consuetudinario. Entonces, para el buen entendedor, de una persona culta , por supuesto ( no sé si usted lo es, pero espero que si), es facil de aceptar. Las raíces mayas están vivas y presentes en Guatemala.

[@howdareyou5800]

@@porsinolosabes...8598 que bonitos son Los templos mayas del congreso entonces Especialmente el indeferible tecum uman: alvaro arzu Irigoyen

[@porsinolosabes...8598]

@@howdareyou5800 Ahora le corrijo el planteamiento a usted, pues el nombre de Guatemala no proviene del mexica. Proviene del nahuatle, quienes fueron los que acompañaron a los españoles en el siglo XXVI y significa " lugar de muchos árboles" , situación que aún se da en Guatemala, siendo un pais sumamente verde y a pesar de sus solo 108,889 kms² de territorio , es uno de los 19 países megadiversos del mundo.🇬🇹

[@porsinolosabes...8598]

@@howdareyou5800 Por favor señor, antes de opinar sobre un tema, es mejor que se informe y se eduque para no quedar en ridículo. Pero si lo hace por dañar o atacar a un país maravilloso, mejor revise su vida y trate de mejorarla para no vivir amargado. Saludos. Y viva Guatemala Cuna y corazón de la civilización Maya. 🇬🇹

[@Ana-og2le]

Guatamala needs more cities like Cayala? Its so, best wishes for that amazing county.

[@UrbanCityExplorer_]

Thank you for the kind words about Guatemala and Cayala!

[@porsinolosabes...8598]

​@@UrbanCityExplorer_No es bueno mentir sobre algo que no se conoce. Guatemala es un país con poca delincuencia.

[@howdareyou5800]

@@porsinolosabes...8598 si claro, no es que tenga tazas de homicidios que se ven solo en paises en guerra

[@andregarce9188]

What a beauty!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@bondedteam626]

I think is a great concept, that will insentivate people to become wealthy and live in a place like that

[@frodocomarca535]

Amazing place.......

[@UrbanCityExplorer_]

It really is!

[@miguelmorales2987]

WOOW Guatemala! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@Manolo144p]

0:29 That structure you see there is a HISTORICAL RUIN

[@alexrodas9912]

I have been to Cayala many times when I go to visit family in Guatemala! Cayala is really it's own beast and it's beautiful there.

[@AlexGonzalez-id1yh]

The KZbinr es from Costa Rica 🇨🇷 TheHaha 😂costa rica is full of crime now. The KZbinr has envy because Costa Rica 🇨🇷 is going down Guatemala 🇬🇹 city 🏙️ has more people than the whole country of Costa Rica 🇨🇷 costa pobre Costa Rica 🇨🇷 now is full of crime Que viva Guatemala 🇬🇹

[@manuelbarreto6205]

Excelente....

[@amyherrera7352]

Beautifull city!!! 👏👏👏

[@sabi8381]

It's beautiful, the only thing needed is a mega fountain like the one in Vegas. Water features make a city more appealing

[@julioibanez3086]

Unique and beatiful designs. Great city

[@Ana-og2le]

Cayala City was created based on the european design. So basically its an European design. America needs to build as European designs I see... Guatemala needs to rebuild more cities or zones like this one.

[@UrbanCityExplorer_]

Couldn't have said it better!

[@howdareyou5800]

that was la antigua guatemala guatemala city is based on the european design of 1500 years ago

[@metamorfosisdeambulante]

No. Please dont.

[@howdareyou5800]

@@metamorfosisdeambulante cabal, sin pajas mano

[@Descriptions568]

A city like that is not only beautiful, but it will generate new income into the Guatemalan economy in taxes and new jobs.

[@RosarioChaclan-ug2if]

Es simplemente pura en vidia

[@guillermolopez8036]

Interesting but sad that you make it sound like the rest of Guatemala is extremely dangerous which is not true. Safely in GT it is improving and recent crime indicators at similar level than Costa Rica which a lot of foreigners consider to be the safest county in LATAM

[@howdareyou5800]

specially cause our government is so good right

[@daga6121]

Why use the word 'rebuild' instead of "build"? It haven't been built before nor were there buildings there before.

[@eewilson9835]

watch Kennys House on South Park, I am sorry to have to refrence that show, but urbanization is summed up by buying a loft next to Kennys house.

[@howdareyou5800]

cause they are trying to copy la antigua guatemala

[@tigerstallion]

this is the worst report on Cayala

[@UrbanCityExplorer_]

Thanks for the feedback, sorry to hear that. Could you perhaps elaborate on that?

[@rudolphparedes9856]

el chavo es tico

[@franciscoroche8110]

Well, at least it is open to anyone And I don't know if they are wrong, but this reaches people should also contribute with the government to build better houses for the rest of people and control crimes. In the end, if you work and you make money with honesty, you are free to do what you want with your money. It is the liberty of democracy.

[@UrbanCityExplorer_]

Your perspective on social responsibility is thought-provoking, thank you for sharing!

[@EdyMauricio-br9uo]

👍👍👍

[@hombreg1]

I would recommend, as a Guatemalan myself, that people stop considering "Cayalá" a city. Or even a functional part of our society. Upscale shops that close due to soaring rent, paint a bleak picture of what goes underneath. This is a simulacrum of a neighborhood. A sore that causes an insane amount of traffic and a disfunctional neighborhood made for foreigners and nationals that cling desperately to any sort of foreign heritage. No one "lives" in Cayalá. No one "stays" longer than needed for a movie and maybe a meal. I've spent one eight of the minimum wage in there, for a few slices of pizza and glasses of soda. It's insane. Not only this, but it's an infamous area for enforcing the conservative, evangelical views of the upper echelons of Guatemalan society. We've had cases of people being thrown out, merely because they held their partner's hand in public, as an act of blatant homophobia. So, I beg you to reconsider. This isn't an "ideal". It isn't even something that I, as someone living a scant few minutes away from this glorified mall, can even identify with.

[@Blackspidy619]

Another Guate local here. I didn't even know people loved in Cayala 😅 It always seemed like an overpriced mall with pretty architecture. It's way on the other side of the city, for me, so I don't interact with the surroundings much nor gave it any thought outside the few times I've gone there for family events.

[@metamorfosisdeambulante]

Preach!

[@ohcanada6085]

I came here from Canada 8 years ago I bought a house I have a 4 year old daughter in a private college beautiful Guatemalan traditional wife it's all about what you're up to in the streets?

[@alfredoarenales7191]

You speak half truths.

[@UrbanCityExplorer_]

Thanks for your honesty, appreciate the feedback! Please let us know what we left out.

[@eewilson9835]

@@UrbanCityExplorer_ The truth, and nothing but the truth. its hilarious that builders visit and find not one problem, well I can tell you one problem just by looking at it, drone shots. NO one flies around a town up in the air. They walk, on the ground, on legs.

[@chepitosback]

yea... its just a big open Mall you can resume it like that

[@howdareyou5800]

Cayala is not a city, its an overvalued mall for the richest of people here and its all artificial, its just trying to imitate La Antigua Guatemala

[@user-pi4mn7qh1e]

No has visto zona 14, 15, zona 16 zona 25 en fin muchas zonas más y que son exclusivas, hay zonas que manejan 3 etiquetas clase baja clase media y clase alta como zona 5 que hay gente de dinero y también hay sectores algo peligroso dentro de la misma zona 5. También están los condominio super exclusivos de Juan Gaviota Marina del sur. Hay casas hasta con playa privada y con precios como si estuvieras en Estados Unidos 😅😅

[@howdareyou5800]

consuelo mas cerote el tuyo que hay unos cuantos ricos aquí a costa de los pobres, como en todos lados

[@user-pi4mn7qh1e]

@@howdareyou5800 Hay que tener madurez para comprender que tu condición mala no es culpa del empresario, es tuya por no hacer algo al respecto, yo pasé de empleado a empleador y aunque solo seamos 5 es un negocio propio. Ahora la desigualdad es culpa de las administraciones que a tenido Guatemala, no del empresario, que si bien dicho es "empresario" no caridad, y aunque no te guste como suena y ni a mi tampoco, no hay que confundir peras con manzanas.

[@howdareyou5800]

@@user-pi4mn7qh1e pero y eso que tiene que ver con que en la ciudad de guatemala hay una taza de criminalidad altisimamente completamente inaceptable Estás hablando con alguien de paso también, ese no es el punto

[@ascendiendo2924]

Are you talking about PHILADELPHIA , USA ? Not Guatemala city. Go to the sh

[@osochara]

As a Guatemalan, I hate Cayala. It’s not because of the concept or the luxury. I have no quarrels with that. It’s a distasteful monument to ostentaciousness, and it’s poorly executed. Yes, it is visually striking, specially in a third-world country. But it is awful, and your comment that no architect would find any faults with it are absolutely false. There are many interesting things in the concept of Cayala, specially the development of open spaces that are accessible to everyone (no such thing usually exists in Guatemala City), but the execution is horrendous. Also, although technically correct that the residences are “over 70% of what the average Guatemalan makes in a year” is true, it’s also not descriptive. If I’m not mistaken, a house tends to be about USD1M and an apartment about USD700k. The average Guatemalan might go a lifetime without making that kind of money, and if you look at it in terms of rent, the average salary in the city is still below the average monthly rent price. Also, this area was originally a forest. Yes, it was private land, but it was converted to a huge slab of concrete, so not only is that an insult to the environment, it also means that it is scorching hot when you are there during the summer. All of this long winded comment can be summarized in stating that I hate Cayala for what it is, not what it wanted to be.

[@howdareyou5800]

exactamente amigo as a guatemalean cayala is a show off, an overpriced mall for the richest of people here

[@maximilianescobar3564]

Hey brother if you don't like it so what....that is your opinion........ Beautiful place I love that place........

[@howdareyou5800]

@@maximilianescobar3564 and that is why you have to give your "opinion" as well isn't it? To convince yourself

[@rotorairgroup8409]

The most recurrent comment that I have read about Cayala is that when you get there it gives you a sense of missing autenticity that you can feel in the Disney World amusement parks. The médium quality of construction probably adds some of that same feeling of fakeness or pretention. For it to be gated actually goes against the arquitectural concept expressed by the original creator. Like having a wild animal in a zoo and pretend to be protecting it. It can't be catalogued as a city, it is more like a large neighborhood invaded by the new rich snob culture that can't see the difference between a faccade and authentic architecture. The owners belongs to the old and tradicional most wealthy families of Guatemala but the local architects that build it lack the taste and class to give it the touch of excellence that such immense investment was expecting to achieve.

[@howdareyou5800]

@@rotorairgroup8409 it's completely artificial The habit does not make the monk

[@osvaldogomez7008]

Guatemalan streets might be dangerous, but at least our public schools are safe for kids.

[@RealAmazing888]

No mass shootings at schools in Guatemala. Never ever. Unlike other countries.

[@denissermeno6079]

It's a bubble where privileged and corrupt politicians live

[@ConcerninglyWiseAlligator]

Sorry, but that's not a city. It's a mall, themed around a city that is only a few blocks long and wide. So it's more of an example of a walkable neighborhood than a walkable city. For instance, there is no such thing as public transportation.

[@Jm96RoCk]

No. Just, no. As a guatemalan i can tell you, we dont think of Cayalá as an actual city. Ask anyone who actually lives here and we will tell you, ITS A SHOPPING MALL. One built and owned by corrupt rich individuals involved in national political scandals.

[@RosarioChaclan-ug2if]

En todas partes del mundo hay violencia y de las meras

[@annalisezoe6239]

"promosm" 🤗

[@AlexGonzalez-id1yh]

This KZbinr show talk about his country is full of crime. Guatemala 🇬🇹 is a great country. Why he does go and make a videos of the zombis cities 🏙️ in his country. We should report this youtuber on KZbin.

[@UrbanCityExplorer_]

Thank you for your feedback. We're sorry to hear the video was not up to your liking. We based our information off numerous articles we researched online. It's unfortunate to read that this still lead to an unbalanced view in your opinion. We'll do our best to avoid this in the future. :)

[@AlexGonzalez-id1yh]

@@UrbanCityExplorer_ unfortunately you should go to Guatemala 🇬🇹 in person first then you can criticize, plus you don’t even know that there are more zones for example zone 4,9,10,13,14,15,16 with rich people too. You are following articles from people who write ✍️ without even look 👀 their own countries that those countries are worse than Guatemala 🇬🇹 you are poor guy with small brain 🧠.

[@howdareyou5800]

all countries are great countries but in here, amigo, in guatemala, crime is very high due to a very profound poverty, that we are responsible for

[@howdareyou5800]

Urban city, si ciudad de guatemala tiene una muy alta taza de criminalidad, pero no, cayala es artificial, "caquera", opulenta, es un centro comercial enorme, carísimo y sobrevalorado

[@RealAmazing888]

This is accessible to ALL !!! Anyone can enter Cayalá. Stop spreading missinformation and half-truths. Places like Detroit and many more in the USA could really learn a lot from Guatemala.