NAN Province is INCREDIBLE Could it be the BEST Yet?
hello and welcome back to another province today we're in the beautiful province of nan we're slowly running out of northern provinces which i'm starting to get sad about because as you can see it's just so beautiful up here you know when i was in the south of thailand i was convinced that the south was the most beautiful part but now i'm up in the north these green blue mountains and the epic skies and just the golden buddhas and just the food and the views and the roads don't get me started on the roads they're just to die for northern thailand specifically naan in this video we're going to explore this video will be based over the next two or three days because i just got here late afternoon from a long drive and i was blown away by the town of nan there was just so many different types of temples i saw an incredible golden temple a similar white temple to the one in chiang rai that was gorgeous as well lots of just really nice wooden local lana style buildings and museums and just lots of other beautiful temples littered around the area and had some delicious food and you know i'm just going to enjoy the sunset here at this 14th century old temple here 14th century can you believe that so before the united states of america was discovered there were people up here praying and just enjoying the views of naan and so will you in this video so sit down and relax as we discover over the next few days and in this video one of my favorite provinces good none as i travel around thailand even though i go to the most unique and most different of temples in each province i am starting to find myself getting a little bit templed out so i'm finding ways to entertain myself because you know when you see a beautiful temple like this and you see a beautiful statue like the one you can see behind me eventually no matter how incredibly beautiful they are eventually you start craving to go to a church or to a mosque or to a party and play pool what i do find entertaining is people watching and especially a place like this at a time like this five o'clock in the afternoon downtown there are tourists here and seeing their creativity when it comes to taking a picture is quite entertaining for me more entertaining than say just looking at the temple and so as the sun is just creeping the last dip behind the mountains in the south um in the west i should say it's lighting up the temple beautifully just for the very last minute and in fact this one might be the optimal time to come here five past five in the afternoon if you need any reference because look at it the sun is hitting the uh the booty of the statue and people are being very creative with they're taking pictures of their shadows and getting the sun glistening off their faces and it's really nice to see actually it's more interesting to me to see people around the temple um because if you don't know i'm traveling around every single province of thailand we're nearly halfway and i don't know i just maybe it's just i'm tired from the drive today but yeah i'm just i'm at this temple and i'm like you know what i'm not really bothered about temples anymore so what i might do actually is uh enjoy the last of the half an hour sign up here because the views of the distant mountains which we'll go to tomorrow is stunning and i want to enjoy it some more but then we'll go check out the night market down here um i'll show you where i'm staying because it's really nice and then tomorrow we'll get on the road and head up into the blue mountains and that's where this province believe it or not really shines all right oh this is a really cool little night market so firstly when i was coming in i thought they were going to do the whole scan temperature check but they were saying to me where's your vaccine passport and obviously i didn't have it with me i mean who carries it around with you or maybe is that a thing i don't know um but i didn't have it with me but they weren't checking anyone else none of the thai people walking in so i said what about that person and what about that person why aren't you checking their passport and then they were like oh um yeah just go in so you know don't be scared to question people if if it's blatant that they're just singling you out because you're a foreigner then you come in and loads of food and it's packed and it feels really nice to be back in the busy market like this and a beautiful evening and there's a father and daughter singing and it's adorable but the most unique thing is everyone's just sat on the floor and i don't know if this is a covered thing you know like does it keep people from mixing i don't know but everyone has their own little picnic basket and little wooden table and they get their food from the market and they sit down as a family or on a date and enjoy the little girl singing what a cute little night market but bring your vaccine passport yeah so maybe this is a new thing especially at markets and busy places uh so yeah i'll just bring my vaccine information out with me in the future i think it's fair enough at the end of the day you know it's their market their country they can do what they want and uh i understand a little bit so yeah just potentially keep that in in mind in the future especially if you're coming here in early 2022 bring your information out with you when you're out and about anyway i ended up getting uh some sausage and some sticky rice not the most nutritious of dinners but there you go and i enjoyed the atmosphere a little bit more and then i had it early night i was staying at this quite nice little boutique hotel 1 300 baht a little bit more expensive than i'm used to paying but it seemed nice and i was tired from the journey and it was the first place i found to be honest but then like i said it was time to head up into the mountains where this temple of naan really comes alive good morning and we're back on the road and this is our playground today this incredible view in the incredible blue mountains of nan and i don't know how long this is going to take but there's like a loop okay and it goes up and around and it circles this giant mountain and it can take you three hours if you just drive it or it can take you two or three days if you really stop and enjoy it so i really don't know how long we're going to take maybe a day or two we'll just see depends on how many amazing stops there are and we've just stopped here for a mocker at this beautiful little cafe overlooking the beautiful mountains and they do food and i am kind of hungry but it's all in thai and there's some questionable raw shrimps and raw squid stuff on the menu and i don't want to order the wrong thing and i'm not really in the mood for what i normally order i was looking for something else so we're going to get on the road we're going to keep driving enjoying this incredible road and the next time we stop hopefully we'll get some delicious food and there's so many interesting sites this is where nan really starts to open up and become just next level shoulders but it's a lonely call yeah it's a lonely calling we're having the best time honestly i think this is the best road in thailand this is incredible come on but look at the distance oh it looks like weather i think we're going to get absolutely drenched dreamy look we got to go that way big scary dark clouds i'm pulling over as much as i can to share with you the turns the twists the views but uh it i don't do i do not have the memory or the battery life to just share i mean it's every single turn for the past hour for the next two hours all the way up to boar clue which is where we're going and just just just breathe this in ready it's just it's just amazing so yeah basically out of nowhere weather has rolled in and i've taken refuge in this beautiful roadside temple here and the rain's finished now it wasn't too bad it kind of came and went and it's heading in the wrong direction it's heading in the direction that we want to go which is there but um yeah worst of the weather hopefully is gone hopefully that is blowing faster than dreamy can drive towards it but uh just one more time look at this place nan province the road to bor clua is that a cap i'm having all this fun and i've forgotten that i haven't eaten yet i'm not hungry because i'm just buzzing seeing is see okay okay so we made it to uh now this place is famous for this ancient saltwell behind me here now i have to say that you know if you're lucky uh they'll be taking out the salt there'll be a man i've seen it before when i came here last and um yeah it's just not that interesting guys this whole village is based around this this river and it's salt content which they extract and then there's lots of people here selling different salt products from raw salt up into body scrubs and shampoos and all kinds of things they even have like um nuts that are covered in this sacred special salt i got myself a body scrub a soap um so that i can smell fresh on the road but yeah this place is kind of underwhelming the road here is just so amazing and then you get to bulk lua and you're like oh it's assault mine um so it's a bit of an anti-climax now good and bad news the good news is we've had a great day one of the best rides of the trip maybe the best road of the whole trip so far and i'm on a high and i've just messaged ahead to the place i stayed last year so 10 minutes up the road is a village and just take a look at this it is beautiful this is footage from last year and i drove in and the valley was incredible in the river and i found a place to stay called kassagi tip and it's like a package you get a lovely little room and they cook you dinner and last year it was actually christmas and me and sam splashed out and we stayed there and we had a big feast and it was delicious and it was incredible and we had lots of wine pizza and lots of food and i've just messaged them and they said they're fully booked which is my fault i should have booked a head but i didn't think on a monday and it's not the school holidays or anything i didn't think they'd be busy but at last they're fully booked so what i'm thinking is i might complete the loop in one day i know at the beginning of the video or earlier in the video i said you can take two or three days or one day to do this loop now it's three o'clock in the afternoon and the sun and the light is perfect and i'm gonna be selfish and i'm going to end the video here now don't get mad um because the road back to nan is equally and epically as beautiful as the road to here and i want to enjoy it not like i haven't enjoyed it today but you know i have to pull over um out of excitement to share with you fly the drone do time lapses and really take lots of photos for instagram and things like that and as fun as that is it's taken me about seven hours from this morning to get here and on google maps it says it would take an hour and a half so that just gives you an example of how long it takes me to pull over and stop and that was forgetting to have lunch as well so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna drive the two hours back to nan and not have to stop and just i'm going to be selfish and i'm going to have that part of the road for me now this is motivation because come to beauclua book ahead at casa e tip have pizza stay in the valley now i've done it already so i'm not really that worried about missing out but it was beautiful and a really incredible experience but i'm just gonna drive back to none and me and dreamy we've got a whole afternoon ahead of us so anyway thanks for watching stay clean and um see you in the next video you
2021-11-07 03:08
