an UNFORGETTABLE start in Thailand's HIDDEN Paradise ft. Uthai Thani
if you're new around here let me catch you up to speed because a lot has happened in the last 18 months for the past five years i lived a very happy life teaching and living in chiang mai northern thailand and then covered came and i was like you know what screw this i'm not enjoying teaching online and i quit i wanted to combine two of my passions travel and video making and so i started this youtube channel and i wanted to kick off with a bang and that's what i think i did by choosing to travel to every single province in thailand on my little honda and it took us 13 months but we went everywhere we had a blast doing it and yeah it was a wild ride oh it plays music this is the best gas station ever and then to keep momentum i went over to vietnam i went to hanoi and i bought another little honda and we spent two months traveling from the very top all the way down through the country in the south and vietnam is such a destination for an adventure and that's exactly what we had you guys have the best life and then on my return to thailand i purchased my dream bike a honda ct125 it's also known as a posty in australia or a trail in america and for me it's the ultimate adventure bike and so that's what we're doing we're going to be taking this bike into laos into cambodia maybe into myanmar malaysia in indonesia in the future who knows but i do want to test this bike i don't want to go into laos without any experience on zelda that's the name of my bike so what we're going to do is we're going to leave bangkok which is where i bought the bike and kind of position it near the border of laos i have to take a trip back to the uk just for a couple of weeks to see friends and family and when i come back i want the bike to be as near to the loud border as possible along the way we're going to be having some beautiful adventures we're going to be staying at some incredible locations we're going to be seeing lots of things we've never seen before as well as a few things that we have but in new and unfamiliar ways so sit down and relax enjoy this mini series as we take zelda up to the border of lao and iron out the creases get to know each other bond problem solve here in thailand as we always have to on these road trips so we've just had a complete back break failure i have no back break the hell am i supposed to do now so yeah let's pick things up in our first province which is the beautiful the underrated the extremely unseen utai tani enjoy the series so now so so the purpose of this mini road trip is to test our zelda my brand new honda ct125 put her through her paces let's see what she can do let's see how driving her from bangkok to chiang mai goes now i've already from bangkok to here in utaitani in this beautiful place here i've already had some some issues let me show you the main ones so the first one let me show you what happens when i park up there's just too much weight on the back actually i've just put my bag in the room but when i was getting fuel earlier because i have my back box with my camera equipment and then my backpack with my clothing that is just too heavy for the kickstand and the whole thing the whole thing wants to fall over let me show you so kickstand she really wants to fall over and earlier with my backpack at the petrol station she almost fell so what i'm going to have to do is i'm going to have to upgrade the kickstand it's a little issue but it's quite important because every time i was fueling up today or pulling over to 711 to get a drink the bike wanted to go and the first time i nearly snapped my ankle the other one is and this is definitely like a a design fault from k-speed the guys who make the exhaust the seat and this tank cover plus many other parts of this bike um have a look so this is to open the fuel compartment which is under the seat now the stock seat just opens up but look it's getting caught on this tank cover you see it won't open further than this it's just too tight here so what i have to do which is super annoying is take the tank cover off like that that's what the tank cover is and you can see here's the bag that it comes with this is for storing you know whatever you want basically something nice and safe i have to take this off and then it can open and then we can refuel it's not the end of the world but it's kind of annoying right i've every time you want to fuel up but for me it's like two or three times a day you have to take this tank cover off and the last one is just it's just a phone holder this little 300 bar thing it doesn't hold my phone unless i take it out of the case so that's just probably going to have to get replaced i was going to get a proper quad lock system anyway but i just didn't have time so i bought this it's rubbish but this is what i like about doing these little mini road trips this is a process this bike this dream bike this thing that i i'm so proud to own it's not perfect but we'll get there so this area of utaitani is it's unbelievable it's one of my favorite parts of the country the reason why i've come back here on the first day of this road trip is to stay two nights i'm gonna be enjoying this beautiful little hut it's quite basic inside it's nothing fancy 1 300 bar per night and i'll put the link in the description for you if you do want to come here it's surrounded by one of the most beautiful areas of the country and last time i was here doing my tour of the provinces there's something super special here super special but it was closed because of covid but it's open now so i'm gonna rock up have a beer and um watch the football in the morning i'll show you the reason why i started this road trip to bangkok in utaitani i just also want to take a quick moment to say you know i recently hit 100 000 subscribers and i was having dinner with miss p and flora and notes you know those guys youtube channel based in kosamui and good friends of mine and they were so pumped for me and they were like oh how do you feel how do you feel and to me 100 000 subscribers is just a number it's just a number it's not something i'm focused on it's not something that i'm actually that proud of there are lots of youtube channels out there with triple double ten times a hundred times and um you know it's just a number and it's it's youtube celebrates it and it's it's a milestone for sure but do you know what makes me happy do you know what the biggest achievement of this youtube channel is for me other than like a hundred thousand and you know getting good views and now and again in vietnam and stuff like that is the bike zelda is the biggest achievement i've ever had i put 100 000 bar into this bike 100 000 subscribers is a lot and it means a much to me but the bike driving her from bangkok today you know i get emotional this is the most expensive most beautiful thing i've ever owned it's my dream bike and yes she's not perfect but what is but maybe one day she will be the perfect bike but right now i just love her and i'm so happy to be on the road here comes the rain so cheers ears hear me this is this is the reason why we've come to utaitani province once more it's also known as the hidden forest and within these limestone cliffs someone went climbing through a cave and found a very rare area of forest there's lots of incredibly unique and rare plants and animals living in here and they drilled an entrance through the cave so that the public can now visit it this is a real unseen part of thailand so so so oh these bats why is there always so many bad oh my god this is even though there's nobody here i find myself being very quiet i don't want to disturb the birds and all of these animals that live in this sinkhole this is a giant sinkhole 360 degrees limestone cliffs engulfing this ancient historical tiny fragment of a rainforest this is special i'm so glad i came here and you can too just a few hours north of bangkok can you believe it my do it's not just the plants but it's the animal life here that is just so unique we're in this tiny little pocket like a time capsule of nature i will put this fern we'll put this type of bug we'll put this type of bird and in 65 million years humans will dig a hole through the cave and find it but we'll take the dinosaurs out because we don't want them to die honestly if you want to feel like dora the explorer then come here so it looks like there's another cave entrance here so we're gonna go in there's a really nice path and it just walks you through how did i not come here last time i'm so happy that we got to come here now in your face covered i cannot recommend this place enough the location's in the description took me three hours to get here on a little motorbike you could get here in two hours in a car for sure you've seen where i've stayed right this area is unseen no crowds just green jungles limestone cliffs beautiful farming everywhere i'll take you around this area a little bit more after this this is a special province utai tani it's a sleeper wake up this is perfect absolutely perfect so so there's loads of little roads like this in this area but i want to try going on these dirt roads i think this will probably just lead to somebody's house but you never know you see this is what the the trail bike was designed for off-road trails so let's just see where this leads shall we i would imagine it's going to be leading to a farmhouse with all this corn and there's a lot of tapioca growing around here too what do we have here ah okay this looks like someone's private property that's okay we'll keep exploring i can hear the dog barking let's just get out of here am i stuck on a twig i think i'm stuck on a twig ah there's a let me show you voila also fun fact i can you see here like an idiot i've just broken a 1700 baht brand new gopro mount because i freaking like an idiot planted it here to get the shot of the front wheel and you can even see the melted plastic on the exhaust what a freaking idiot you just noticed that this gopro was all covered in sunscreen you know i've been making motorcycle vlogs for about a year and a half you think i'd know better but i don't um i'm still learning on the job people i got an email a few days ago uh you know what film school did i go to this is film school right here making stupid mistakes expensive stupid mistakes is my lesson for the day i've crashed what three or four drones that's how i became a good drone pilot i had a couple of crashes on dreamy years ago and that taught me how to be a better rider i'm still not very good but stuff like this is how you get good you make stupid mistakes you drive for two hours to a waterfall and you realize the sd card for your camera is back in the laptop in your room two hours away you never make that mistake again you buy a 1700 baht gopro clamp mount which gives you dynamic and interesting variations of angles for the audience and then on day two of using it you melt it so yeah this is the film school it's called paddy doyle's film school of life lesson one go out into the field make a thousand mistakes and try not to make the same mistake twice to be fair it's a little bit like just the same as being a youtuber you want to be a youtuber well go to a youtube school go and make youtube videos oh that looks pretty we'll go down there everybody wants you to make perfect videos but the thing is if your videos are about you like my videos are about me and my adventures i'm not perfect so my videos are not going to be perfect just remember just remember that but because i wear my heart on my sleeve and i relay exactly how i'm feeling and exactly what's happening to me the good and the bad times especially in vietnam i become an easy target because on social media everybody wants perfection right and to be fair we have an opportunity to present ourselves as perfect just like on instagram i can create a perfect photo and you know i spend way longer making the thumbnail with will from will and jose we go back and forth so many times to make sure it's perfect because we can but when it comes to the edit i keep all those imperfections in because i'm not perfect if i'm stroppy if i'm short with people if i'm angry if i'm hungry if i'm depressed if i'm sad if i'm lonely i keep those moments in because that's me i suffer all of the things that you suffer from i'm not god i'm an idiot just like many people out there and yeah i could edit all that stuff out but then i'd just be another one of those cliche youtubers oh my god everywhere we go it's so amazing because we cut out all the crap parts um just having a little bit of a heart-to-heart slash rant whilst finding whatever this is where should we go here these are all tapioca fields by the way if you're wondering all this this is tapioca and the root system looks a little bit like a sweet potato and i ate some recently and it's delicious in fact the last time i came to this province when we were doing the 77 promises i asked people in the video i said what is this and someone left a comment i googled it and they were right this feels so cool just to be able to go over completely uneven surface and not really feel it the suspension is doing all the good work i would cut to a really nice dynamic angle of the suspension working but i melted that mount okay gonna wrap this video up in a minute i'm gonna go for a lovely walk in this gorgeous afternoon and show you some of the beautiful scenes whilst i do two things one play you a beautiful song one of our favorite songs on this channel and uh i want to say thank you to a few people because i've had a lot of support recently especially in vietnam it was an amazing time but there were some there were some tough times and these people really helped me through so so let me share some positivity and say thank you whilst also sharing a little bit more of this incredible incredible place is so incredibly beautiful you shine like gold so selfless too old always yeah i need on the limit of love the cost i give you my everything some would say i'm insane and they're riding away but i just love to play and you're funny give me your freedom is give me your freedom is
2022-09-16 08:27
