Let's Travel to Pattani Province in Thailand Do I feel SAFE ?
i'll be honest with you the southern provinces of thailand specifically patani yala and nareti wat are a bit of a mystery to me and i'll be honest i'm a little bit nervous about going down there thai people have reached out foreign people have reached out and kindly told me to be careful they've told me that it's dangerous however other thai people and other foreigners have told me that there's nothing to worry about and it's perfectly fine and it's beautiful so then i went to youtube and i tried to find vlogs and videos about the provinces and i couldn't find anything of interest and so i just thought you know what let's go down there on our little honda we're going to spend about two weeks in the southern provinces we're going to be there for songkran thai new year which is going to be interesting and let's just go down there let's not try and make it dramatic let's try not milk it for views let's just go down there and i'll document exactly what happens exactly how i feel exactly what it's like if you go down here that's it roll the intro and let's get down there my name is paddy doyle and this is my little honda dream and welcome to next level adventures right now we are attempting to visit every single province in thailand we've had some incredible adventures already but the best part is we're only just getting started so subscribe and join us as we discover this incredible country together the hostel that i've just been staying in here in san clar uh it plays a lot of jazz and it's kind of got me in the mood for some relaxing jazz music just to calm my nerves a little bit i know it seems dramatic but i am nervous to go down to the southern provinces because there is such a lack of information and um i'm sure it's gonna be fine in fact i'm sure it's gonna be brilliant it's just you know like any trip to any place there are your nerves are heightened aren't they you know slightly and uh anyway enough rambling i'm going to leave the beautiful town of old of old town in san clar the previous video documented this entire town it's one of my favorite places in all of thailand a massive surprise and look i'll pick up right at the border of songkla and paternity which i'm sure will be the first major checkpoint people coming into the province they probably want to document you find out who you are what you're doing or maybe they don't care maybe it's completely free city you know anyway goodbye beautiful town of old town and oh i just want to show you this if you wanted to get some colorful face masks in thailand look at the selection here rainbow colors all the colors of the rainbow oh i'm blocking traffic okay see you at the border of paternity in about an hour the drive to paternity was kind of long boring hot and slightly uneventful there were lots of military and police checkpoints all of which just waved everybody through and many of them were also just unmanned to be honest however when we got towards the city of paternity itself they became more frequent and maybe every couple of kilometers there was a checkpoint of some form but they didn't stop me once every time just waved me through or like i said nobody there so about an hour and a half later i was at what i thought was my hotel okay just past that last chest checkpoint sorry it's my accommodation and it's down this little uh dusty road i think this is it here this looks kind of fancy though this might not be it it might be a little bit further down the road hello so the cow i have a booking already yeah okay we checked in at 600 baht for a wooden a wooden uh building a wooden room on stilts uh aircon thank god and turkeys apparently okay okay all right all right anyway um i'll drop the location of this hotel if you're in patani sometime it's like in a beautiful nature area isn't it and it's stone's throw from town cc center and look i'll be honest with you it's four o'clock in the afternoon now when i checked in the room didn't have aircon switched on and it was like a oven in there and it was an oven outside so i smashed on the aircon stripped down had a shower and i've just been lying down in the bedroom uh just minding my own business and then i you know just waiting for the just waiting for the weather to cool down just a bit it's just too hot anyway now that in the afternoon there's a breeze we'll go drive into the town we'll go explore paternity pattani it's tiny it is tiny so like we came in 10 kilometers we were in the middle 10 kilometers south is the next province yala and then about another 20 kilometers east is uh naori tiwat i was just about to uh go on the bike and uh the bloke who works here has come over and he has a honda 70 a really old one check this out and you've put like platinum engine and platinum body parts and springs and look at the exhaust let's have a look here oh very cool the chain death metal style wow what do you think honda dreamy or playboy metal head i was about to start the engine and i forgot my bike key so he's like oh you can borrow my bike to go back to the room because it's like a hunt 200 meters away and i'm like yes let me drive this thing oh ho thank you oh my gosh look at the metal okay kickstart oh wow that is different thank you oh my god it feels so different the tires are tiny i don't know if i like it guys sounds amazing though you can hear us squeaking but the engine bro and the exhaust that is amazing oh yes oh i feel like a bad boy like a harley davidson badass on a 70 cc little honda look there's ducks let's just drive this a little bit more whoa hello little [ __ ] hello little duck oh oh oh dead end yes wow i love that sound move get out the way get out of the moon get out of the way of my 70s 70cc baby and look the keys down here cool we're gonna go to um one of the places that someone's dropped a recommendation for us um we're gonna go to some sort of skywalk which is gonna be fun i think but we have to do a dodgy little u-turn so i think we have to go back through that checkpoint again but never mind now let's get into the town and uh have some adventure eat some food hopefully watch sunset and get to know this area a little bit better because right now all we know is that security guards have bad ass hondas let's go through the old checkpoint again it's a bit more active now so i need to do a u-turn here big bus load of tourists a lot of traffic not like earlier when we arrived okay let's let's see what happens this time i reckon we're gonna get pulled over one thousand percent that's so difficult take a photograph of us at work and post it on facebook we're keeping it safe right then turn left and uh well let's pick up at the interesting place they clearly don't give any f's about us being here which is great okay we've arrived at the skywalk which is at the minute and more of a mangrove walk we're here just above the mangrove level which is really interesting because there's like birds there's turtles like tortoises and um fish and things and uh the sun's just perfect you really can't do anything at this time of year though during lunch time so yeah come out in the afternoon it says on google maps that this beautiful place is open 24 hours but uh i'm not sure if i believe that but anyway it's open now and we're gonna go for a nice walk and hopefully get a vantage point maybe of the top and then we can go see you know where should we go next so far so good here it looks like we're to go up there and there's um a lot of people giggling and laughing up there i don't think they realize that they live in a dangerous place and they're not supposed to be having fun did you see that i don't know i thought it was an otter i was like oh an otter and then i used the full time zoom on my camera and i was like no i think it's a lizard i thought you think it's a lizard there's all sorts of stuff there's all sorts of stuff moving around and making weird noises man by the way um i don't know if you've seen but it's all over facebook in thailand but the other day there was a big storm in bangkok and uh a big lizard ran into 7-eleven to get away from the storm and caused craig absolute mayhem i'm really not doing a good job of this but this is teeming with life there's splashes and like whirlpools and things happening and just all kinds of monsters just living here and it's just i just wish you could spend 30 seconds here just listening and hearing all the weird things it's freaking me out it's long it's like 500 meters it's not super high but super cool mind has stepped there yeah okay i'm an idiot all the breeze come at me breeze and uh it's worth coming here 100 thank you for the recommendation whoever put this in the google map document is lovely and we can see there's kind of like uh fishing estuaries here there's sea birds resting and hunting there's all kinds of craziness down here in the mangroves and a handful of beautiful locals and it's nice to just see people driving around just having a normal beautiful life i made the mistake of looking down because the floor is not made of material that you can't see through it you can see straight through it and uh and uh yeah it's like yeah good 40 meters maybe and now kind of walking a bit quicker the sky walk thing is epic we're at this really cool point here where we're kind of just over the top of the uh the tops of the trees the mangrove forest it was a nice walk from sweating and it was lovely to see the birds it's great to see the local people up here having a good time babies grandmas grannies let me go on the phone and have a look on the map and see what we should do next because we've still got a good two hours of light there is a beach five minutes away on the map so let's drive there and get some footage of the beach here is it lovely is it industrial is it rubbish we don't know but uh i'm loving patani if you've ever traveled to thailand and you haven't done it by motorbike or scooter or whatever at some point then you're missing out because it gives you the ultimate freedom like no cars can come down here it's too far to go on foot it frees up every single opportunity i mean where we are now we're surrounded by these birds we're clearly on the wrong path but we're having a great time i mean look at this it's beautiful look at that and i'm just hoping that this is going to spit us out at the beach or or the road or something i mind in my head pick smack by these plans this is when i'm a happiest i'll say that on a bike trip in any country but specifically here in thailand is when you accidentally end up somewhere different accidentally end up somewhere nice oh and uh i mean look we are about to hit the end of the road and we'll find out if we made it somewhere or we made it nowhere but isn't that the point is the ver is the journey and here we are god damn it oh it keeps going oh there's people here there's lots of people here so there's people taking photographs looks like they might must be university graduation day and oh that's where we want to be let's see if we can cross the river oh i think we can yes look see there was that road the whole way we could have been on that smooth road but we can come across there's no problem and we're next to these really famous um fishing boats that are very specific to this province look i'll just ditch my bike in search of something to eat there's a little restaurant here from this lady oh oh this lady looks nice wow wow oh she's cooking massive prawns i think i might have to jump on this um menu my oh uh oh i don't know what any of it says but um are you taking the mickey out my accent some time i mean we're going to have dinner in town but maybe we still will because prawns in some time is just it could be a massive meal or it might be just a bit of a small snack but um proper cool little vibe here there's a lot of activity in this restaurant it's busy and uh everyone's very noisy so like in the north if you go out for dinner people are quiet also in the north you do not beep your horn but here everyone's beeping their horns and restaurants people are shouting people are screaming i think there's a different rule down south it's just there is no rules okay i did order too much food uh one two three four five six seven seven prawns and an incredibly spicy looking sometimes you can tell by the amount of red chili in it and then of course green beans and cucumber to control the spice as much as possible let's try this sometime first because it's going to be spicy can you see me all right there you go i'm saying it's not that spicy it's actually quite sweet it's okay thank you just like look if you want it spicier she'll go get more chilis in there but i kind of tell them that it's not spicy just to like you know not look weak the batter is full with like bread so it's quite thick you can see the prawn in there and it's got very thick batter and they're very big so do you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna eat two more eat the some tum eat the veggies and then the other three prawns i'll throw to the dogs that we saw living homeless bye-bye nice to meet you okay they gave me uh the rest of the shrimp and the prawn whatever here sorry about the plastic and then uh we'll go we'll go back to town and we will have there's a big mosque and then we'll just don't know we'll just drive around and enjoy the afternoon i mean look at this place this is one of the uh pattiny style boats they're very special around here i've heard and this is definitely a little sunset spot now can someone explain to me why the sun is setting on this side of thailand i don't understand we must have accidentally like turned around and come this way anyway patani province guys next level okay i'm sniffing because the uh chili was actually quite spicy towards the end let's get a lollipop hi ice cream mate hello hello don't worry about the two my phone it's okay chocolate ice cream at sunset in pattini province patani paterni province get it right paddy mmm look at that double chocolate double chocolate oh how beautiful is this country you know like the variety you know one minute you're on a tropical island then you're on the in the mountains and it's cold and then you're down here and it feels like we're in another country with a different religion and different culture different food different way of living everything just changes province by province and that's the big surprise of this trip and we'll continue to learn as we travel that this country is out of this is out of this world and i've you know this is already my favorite country and i've scratched the surface and in this trip we're going to really dig deep i just fall deeply in love with it even more so and it's not all going to be like this you know we'll remember our chocolate ice cream and the sunset in patani and my ice cream is melting now how do i give them these prawns without causing an absolute racket well you see that black one over there with the little puppy he's definitely the skinniest that one literally is salivating at the mouth okay this is kind of scary um you can have that one are they gonna let him have it though and uh you can have that one and you can have that one i'm sorry i was lit i was littering but it's quite intimidating and they'll they'll um they'll figure it out oh there's the alpha being a bully okay god these dogs are great oh god kick sand we're gonna pick up the plastic now where's that little so he's eating that's good who else is skinny um you know what you're cute and there you go and see you later i'm scared now i kind of like dogs but not like this oh why are there so many wow interesting okay let's head into town wow okay okay that that was weird okay let's find somewhere to park now i'm not gonna go in you know everybody here is praying i don't want to be filming them like oh my gosh but because the prez has just started i really don't want to go i don't want to disturb anybody but isn't that beautiful see the bird up there amazing that was part one of this three-part southern series mini series within a series um i'm grouping pattany naratiwat and yala together in a sense because they are three that are all equally recommended to not travel to and equally have um political social problems and dangers and um were provinces that i was literally that i was legitimately anxious and slightly worried about and i'm so glad we came down here and we saw that okay yes lots of checkpoints military police army i'm not even sure really what all of them were because each one was different so um apart from that people really friendly beautiful helpful and uh interested in me being here and and happy for me to be here and happy to see anyone really just positive happy people and then the food was good and the scenery was beautiful the only thing about this particular province is it's tiny and driving around the city at night it's alive and it's packed and there's markets and there's many things going on and i could stay here for a week and really get to know it but here's the but um there's a new outbreak in thailand and a couple of days ago it was like 300 and then today it's 400. so there's a pattern in this country when we have a small outbreak we've had three this is the third one things tend to close down things tend to get locked down quite quickly even when it's only a few hundred people in a country with 77 million people right so what i'm thinking is um i might have a window of about five or six days maybe a week maybe more hopefully or maybe nothing happens but if lockdown does come in um i want to be locked down in somewhere like hat yai which is um the beautiful city that i loved and made a video about recently so if things do get locked down and we can't move province by province worst case scenario then i would like to get locked down in hat yeah there's there's everything i love in that kind in that in that city so i'm thinking get a move on do narity what tomorrow come back to paternity drive south it's only 30 kilometers south to yala then uh do songkran in yala and then come back up to hatyai and when i get back to hatyai i'll see what the situation is if things seem to be clear and things seem to be fine i'll continue my travels if we have to lock down for a week or two then at least i'll be in high eye and i can make a million more interesting videos there because i just scratched the surface when i made my the reason why i love hot eye video anyway thank you for watching i really hope we together got rid of some stupid um not stupid but irrational fears of these kind of areas of the world the danger areas um and i hope that it's wiped away your fear to come down to paternity and hopefully naruto and yada in the next few videos and any any anywhere um pakistan afghanistan any of these like you know countries that have stigma for being dangerous because there are attacks there are things happening there but just think as well you know where you come from i'm sure there's stuff that's not perfect and you probably think where you live is safe compared to most places um i'm rambling again so anyway thank you for watching and i'll see you in narita province in the next video i'm excited because if it's anything like paternity we're gonna have a great time okay bye
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