24 Hours In The Most UNDERRATED Part of BANGKOK Thailand
Welcome back everybody to Next Level Adventures today we're back in Thailand and we're in a very unique part of Bangkok now there are two sides to this city that most people are very familiar with you've got Khao San Road where all the Backpackers and all of The Travelers who are passing through this beautiful country tend to sit down share a few beers paint the town red and then you've got the skyscrapers of downtown and the Sukhumvit area home to luxury malls the sky Train fancy restaurants and let's face it high prices but there are many other sides to this city including this area this is Thonburi it used to be the old capital and it's home to these Canal Waterway systems a really unique local community and a real authentic Bangkok atmosphere so we're going to jump into this area we're going to stay here I'm going to be staying at this beautiful wooden canal house I'm going to be meeting a guy called Ohm who is kind of like the mayor of this area he knows everyone he's going to be our gateway to learn about this community and we're going to meet some friendly faces who call this part of Bangkok their home as well and we're just going to relax stroll down the canals meet the wildlife meet the locals have some fun just spend 24 hours in one of the most underrated and most unique parts of this incredible city of Bangkok Thailand let's go now just because I have connections in this part of Bangkok doesn't mean that this area is off limits to most tourists or anyone watching this video I'm going to be sharing all of the contact information for om and all of the tour companies that you can use to experience this area of Bangkok on your next trip to Thailand so sit down and relax enjoy the episode and all of the information everything that you need will be in this video so if we're going to immerse ourselves in this part of Bangkok then we need to stay in this part of Bangkok and I found this place this is the beautiful Canal House a traditional wooden Canal House on the Canal's Edge and I found this on Airbnb and I will link it in the description below if you do want to book a night here let me just quickly show you around cuz it's really Charming so all throughout this accommodation they've got beautiful antique traditional thae Furniture like this table and chair situation not that fridge that fridge is obviously very modern and full of water you've got your coffee machine your coffee maker and lots of spooky but very cool antique thae Furnishings like the grandfather clocks and this is my bedroom lovely double bed nice soft mattress and gorgeous pillows airon this is a beautiful little view of a really unique part of Bangkok and as you can see there was a balcony just outside of actually the kitchen let me show you the balcony cuz that's definitely the nicest part of this Airbnb and where I'm spending most of my time people watching so when you come through there's these gorgeous tiles and wooden platform here a little bench even some sun lounges if you do want to lie down read a book and just watch the world go by as people are on little tours or as the locals are using these canals to get around you can hear the wooden creaking of the neighbors homes even this one actually which is gorgeous when you actually sit back and you look at it it's this gorgeous white Canal House with little touches of outside lights detailing in the wood leaving the plants growing in the basket it's really quite pretty I come here quite often guys but I've never made a video about it but every time I've come here there's a new house that's falling into the canal there's a new house that's falling down and if you're worried by the way do people swim in it they do this guy just jumped in hello the local swim in the canals here to cool off oh go hey if you're thinking will I join these two Lads uh the answer is no I didn't bring my swimming costume and uh I don't know would you swim in the canals of Bangkok really quick just before we actually pop down and me om get on the boat and explore more of this area I just want to say a big thank you to Squarespace the sponsor of my channel I've been working with these guys for over 2 years because they provide an incredible online website building platform and it's never been easier to build a website right now in 2024 using Squarespace they've actually just rolled out a new feature called Squarespace blueprints which actually uses AI you just click on what you want your homepage to have and the AI system will actually design it and build it for you the interface has awesome features as well such as clicking and dragging on your social media presence maybe your Instagram or for me my YouTube but if your website is not social media orientated like mine is you can add online shops start selling products start selling services and make money using your website today head over to Squarespace and build the website for free you'll see how easy it is to use especially now with their new blueprint feature right and then when you're ready to go live go to squarespace.com pad Doyle and you'll get 10% off your first website or domain oh thank you CAD Guy having a little bit of lunch before me and M go on our little boat cruise on he works really hard he owns a company called hidden Bangkok Tours they're on Instagram I'll link them below you can definitely book a tour I've been on a few they're amazing and he's just saying goodbye to a few of the tour that heading out for an afternoon Sunset Cruise they also do Tuk Tok tours as well and yeah he's a busy boy but he's the guy who I'm going to introduce you to in a minute but first you need to get some food of me cuz I think we're going to have a few beers with the locals this evening or try to like just meet people and ask them questions and normally anywhere in the world if you approach people who you don't know with cold beer they are normally a bit more up for being on film bye we've got some Pirates coming aboard yeah give me my hand give my hand why did you invite the boys do you just like do they enjoy having a a free boat ride or what what is it to be honest like this boy are born and rest in here right yeah I think this is one of the first time that they were on the bus and they are seeing their tourists every day every day like I think they just want they probably want to know to right what what is it like what it's like yeah somebody come somebody come somebody somebody so yeah this is all s and uh you've been a champion for tomere in this area of Bangkok for many many years you've set up your business here um like what what is unique about this place compared to obviously where I live in Su right it's the opposite of this you know this is a whole different deal yeah I was born and res in this neighborhood which is like the the tbri side which is like in the former capital city of Bangkok since I was young you know I always see like the people came the tourists came to Bangkok and stay only around like you know the Grand Palace you know like their Su area people just cross to T side just only to see what the Temple of Dawn and then they just think there only the pagod what right and then right away to cross back to what po side so there's a big this is like the city behind pagod this is a city this is the life this is the real Bangkok this is the real Bangkok this is look if you look at here you don't really see like their sky scapers around here right there a pros and con there a pros and con you know uh the good things about this is like you don't see like skyscaper out here that because the land belong to the temple I would say this in this like old waterways you will see like probably more than 200 tempos along this old Waterway people want to see difference side Bangkok um and we are you know taking the people like out be a par like trying to let the tourists come and see like what the real life of Bangkok yeah how like this kid you know the life like what they eat and then talk to them when the people come to Thailand right if you want to go to Kel Sun Road you want to go to the g palace I think it's cool but at least you know try to come and visit this side you know and then then you can see like the big contrast you know another thing is you just saw right super greens it it didn't look like Bangkok at all right if you get off here we get on the taxi only 10 minutes you can go to ion which is like the the most luxuous shopping mall look at the people live in there these people yeah CH C Chuy cap they're having ice cold beers in plastic cups sat on the little gazebo some of the houses here are quite nice aren't they the I can tell like the when you see the houses like this they have car access W yeah if you see like very fancy house oh look big dragon coming oh you try to touch them yeah there's another one right in front of you oh God give it a kiss go on we'll get a million views on he's almost like J these kids live in this part of Bangkok and every day they see people coming on this tour right and they probably think why do these people pay money to come look around our neighborhood that's so weird but look at this I mean there's birds there's lizards it's peaceful look even they're getting excited about what they're seeing cuz they've never seen it from this perspective before oh look at these two very romantic you guys know this one this is called mini heart see nice nice place to come on a date nice place to come on a group tour share the cost yeah sorry interrupt here so I like this scene because we are on the water right now and then you are seeing car passing by and eventually you might see the MRT which is like their Sky TN on this side both car and train all which like explains a lot about like Bangkok Transportation transform you know oh the train oh so lucky you know like the whole conversation they were talking about where should they fish like oh here is like good place to fish by the way I'm drinking Maha nakon craft beer it was just for sale where you get on the boat and I thought let's try it it's it's it's okay it's it's not changed my life ch ch the C CH that when you were a kid you used to swim in the canal too this is kind of the way that you build your immunity you get your germ right so you build your immunities but um honestly like when I was young for sure less pollution you know water cleaner because less human right so less pollution and but right now it's like the kids are they know you know like when it's good cruising down the canals of this area of Bangkok is a fascinating experience and we continued on for quite a while admiring the Larger than Life creatures that call this place home and we met a few more of the locals that live here on the water's edge and we just soaked up the incredible atmosphere of this laidback Oasis bang in the middle of the city soon we made our way back towards the restaurant and where the kids lived M wanted to get back on to dry land and show me some other areas of tomere but when we reached the house where the kids lived instead of letting us park on the Canal's Edge and to drop them off nicely and safely well they had other plans boys will be boys bye bye bye oh jeez I was not expecting that just belly flopped off the boat here Mom this Mom asking me hey oh I'm looking for my son om is such a nice guy and he was really kind and gave me a guided tour of his local neighborhood and he told me lots of interesting stories about how the locals live here and how they've adapted to the modern-day Bangkok that has developed and grown over the years all around them there's a lot of beautiful local artwork that tells the stories of the people who call these canals their home and he showed me around some of the temples that serve this community and you know that's so funny because like you walk from here only 10 minutes to what the Timo D where it's like maybe million tourists we say today you know yeah and here you see like this c local temple where's no tourist at all so this is unle Paul helloo how are you nice to meet you buy bye thank you nice to meet you about you I'm good I'm good where you come from I come from England England yeah this is very very very common in Thailand someone will just have a fridge in their house and they'll just start selling beers yeah you probably want to support this kind people right yeah better than 7-Eleven thank you darling thank you that's for you that's for you that's for you and that's for some bloke who I don't know but I'm happy to buy everybody a beer today I work in the n school oh really BK oh okay so I 50 nice you speak very good English he used to work in the international school when he was younger ISB ISB you oh very nice go long time ago yeah long time ago about 50 year ago yeah and now you retired I know yeah I retired 30 years already it 82 you're 82 no way no way you're 82 no you look like a baby look like a baby there's literally nothing better than when you're having a few beers is then when an old lady with a charcoal barbecue swims up next to you on a little boat and sells you some Char girl squid Alma's just telling me that she's been doing this for 20 30 years and she has sent her children to University to do master's degrees all through her hard work every day going up and down on that little boat selling squid so you can see that using that machine she's flattened it out which has broken up the quite coarse skin into something a little bit more manageable a bit a bit more Str ringy smells very strong of the of the sea and salt and Squid would you eat this I'm going to just try a little bit raw before I use that very delicious looking dipping sauce tastes way better than it looks it's chewy it's salty it's just a very nice beer snack if we get that dipping sauce with peanuts chili flakes chili oil that looks absolutely delicious fold it up into a little Seafood parcel of love beer cheers ma yeah there's nothing quite like experiencing the local way of life in such a setting so different to the one that I grew up with these types of moments here in Thailand are the ones that I never forget and I can't think of a better evening than sinking a few beers at Sunset making new friends eating weird and wonderful snacks all in this unique part of the mega city that is Bangkok morning local areas local prices two b a piece so 10 B for a bag of freshly baked or freshly fried bread when Miss P has these she gets them with like this Milky condensed milk dipping sauce that storm is going mad it's really humid and it's really hot and I think the rainy season is around the corner thank god um but yeah I don't have any creamy delicious yogurty drink um and he gives me a tissue because they are quite greasy in a fresh from the frying pan delicious and these Temple grounds by the canal they are very impressive they're under construction a little bit but there's so many incredible stat choose wasn't quite sure which one to choose so I just got some pork and some sticky rice 15 B for two pieces with a little bit of sticky rice very cheap now this Moody weather and the storm brewing all around us was actually a very welcome relief and so we decided to take a morning cruise and enjoy this cooler weather and search for some more local food and coffee for breakfast om was joining me again but this time my good friend Gary and his little boy Finley came along for the ride Gary also lives in this area of Bangkok and knows it like the back of his hand and he said he knew some great spots to find some coffee and some delicious food so we set saes in search of some delicious grub buddy Gary's brought us to a really brilliant place to get morning coffee and uh it's closed they're on a they're on a welld deserved break the the only time they've been on holiday in the last 15 years happens to be the day that I bring Patty in the pouring rain to um have a coffee but fear not I've still still got there is the most incredible view of the big budha by the way even in the rain on a normal day when this little Coffee Shop is open you can sit here and just stare down at the big butter and in this morning storm it looks even more beautiful than it normally does my my there's this little local wet Market here and normally we would come and have a little coffee but obviously it's shut but lots of delicious food Gary's found this quite authentic little hole in the wall place we're going to order something delicious I'm sure lovely jly look at that look we got dried chili we got fresh chili we got minced pork we got two lovely yolks look made a little face there look bu's holiday for you today is it that looks like a fly it looks like a fly a fly's face oh my God it does actually do it look oh yeah it does look like a fly's face B Appetit it's one of my favorites B Appetit baby all right so this is Tom but with seasoned pork meat Bo so we got fatty pork mints we we've also got CRS some mushrooms we've got namon so we've got dark so we've got some evaporated milk in here not condensed milk evaporated milk loads and loads of chili some lime juice lemongrass all those beautiful herbs crisy belly pork lovely jly so Gary what we got here all right so we've got Canam kog it's a coconut milk rice flour uh coconut flesh pudding it's like mixed into a butter and then they cook it in these little pots with these divots in pumpkin coconut dessert for breakfast me about this dessert how is it to come down with you I'll come down with you what is it good good tell them about the dessert is it sweet salty sweet oh very nice why am I thumbs up or thumbs down hello Man Thumbs Up yeah you've got to do a bit to get a thumbs up from him honestly you see like that okay byebye since tomere is home to some beautiful temples and the rain started to come down quite heavily we sought after some shelter in one of the most impressive ones w pacam Gary let's go look around here come on Gary Come on Gary Gary Gary Helen's hired me as a babysitter so Gary I'm I'm like those you're not really his dad Gary weird Uncle oh look at the big storm out suing B this is for any of you not in Thailand it has been like desert heat the hottest I've been for probably the last 6 weeks of my life like I've never ever felt heat like it and I've been here for 9 years um so just to have a little bit of cool weather it's like oh I know okay thank you my Go Go okie dokie with that a rainy stormy Morning has turned into lunchtime and I am checking out it's been 24 hours here in toury I really hope you enjoyed a little Glimpse if you want to get in touch with om and have your own gun with him or someone uh within his company I'll tag him below hidden Bangkok Tours on Instagram check him out send him a message book a tour and get to know this part of Bangkok if you'd like to stay at this Airbnb I'll also link that below so you can immerse yourself here for a night or two or longer depending and yeah I'll see you this time next week where we tick off something else on my bucket list because I've always wanted to kind of bring you here for a little bit of an Extended Stay which is what we've done so I'm glad I can take that off my list and then it's on to the next one where and what I'm not quite sure I think I'll think about that on my way home it is going to piss down and on my drive home as well I'm going to get absolutely soaked
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