Our First Time In Udon Thani Unveiling The Beauty Of Isan Thailand
this video is brought to you by Squarespace oh my goodness we are now in the middle of the flowers it's pretty incredible where are you taking me it's Rocket's first off-road adventure that looks like the Sydney Opera House okay we should go see Mom first good morning good morning from Udon Thani you just can't help yourself with this Isan music right yeah the Isan in me is coming out and you got to get the hips moving Isan people party really early yeah it's 9 not even 9:00 a.m. right now we are here at the Talay Bua Daeng or the Red Lotus Lake when we first moved to Thailand maybe six seven years ago now we already seen the name Talay Bua Daeng and we've always wanted to come check out this lake because it is like a hidden gem but the timing has never been yeah cuz the season for when the flowers are blooming is actually quite short it's uh December until March but right now it's the perfect time to go so let's uh find ourselves a boat to go check out the lake I think you can just go and grab one here there's a ticket booth here it says big boat six people Max 500 Baht and then the small boat is two for two people Max 300 Baht that's pretty good price yeah let's get a small one about an hour oh okay he's getting his camera ready they're taking a photo of us we've done these kind of boat tours before and they just love taking a photo in the beginning of the tour and then at the end they have it all ready framed for you to buy that's so cute wow this looks cozy babe wow you want to go to the back or you want to stay at the front uh I'll go to the back is it comfy yeah you can sit here wow that's perfect I'm sorry I think this small boat is a really nice choice because you feel closer to the water it's a lot lower it's quite cozy isn't it babe look over to your left oh my goodness wow I can just see like just pink all on the top there and we're not even out far yet uh that's beautiful oh look look look wow what kind of birds are those they look like half bird half uh turkey just don't have any sudden movement because it tilts yeah so easily the boat look they stand on there like it's such a firm patch of land or something you can see in a distance you can see in the distance all of that is pink it's not really the Red Lotus Lake it's like the pink pink Lotus Lake actually it's not even Lotus I read online that these are tropical water lilies so someone completely named the lake wrong oh my goodness we are now in the middle of the flowers it's fully Bloom it's so beautiful they're prettier than lotus flowers cuz they have more what you call leaves mhm but that's why you have to come early in the morning because they're only open I think from the morning until 12:00 like when it gets too hot they close oh you're right they close at 11 he said 11 not even 12 so right now it's still nine it's perfect and how big is the lake again it is 8 km long and 3 km wide like I can't see the end of the pink flowers it's pretty crazy so our Boatman he is from this area and he said that when he was young there weren't that many flowers growing from this Lake it was only maybe in the last 10 years where a lot of this green plants started floating into the lake and it caused a lot of shade so then that's why why a lot of flowers started to uh bloom from this lake like they were able to survive and bloom and a couple years ago CNN also did an article and called uh Talay Bua Daeng here one of the strangest lakes in the world I think it was ranked number two and then that also started drawing more local tourists but also foreign tourists to visit so it's become sort of a hidden gem in the northeastern area of Thailand that people love to come to visit and we are back you excited to see our photo yeah and they still partying parting hard all day all night oh I think uh our photo is the only one left so oh it's actually really cute it's not bad it's quite cute it's 100 if it was 500 I would say no okay oh it's for the for the community oh okay so the money goes into this Boating Association oh that's good can I see it again it's actually pretty good yeah we both look great oh my God so hot did you think it was worth the drive yes it was only around what 45 minutes from the city center of Udon Thani which is where we stayed last night and if you were also wanting to come here um of course we came with our currently still trusty Old Rocky but you can also come by taxi I think you wouldn't be wanting to pay more than 1,500 Baht return for a taxi so they they'll wait for you while you go on your boat trip but you can also check with your hotel to see if they can arrange some sort of tour that they could pick you up and then drop you back off and I think those ones probably start early like uh pick up at 7:00 or 7:30 but it's worth a visit if you are going to the city of Udon Thani but this uh Red Sea I mean Red Lotus sea is not our main destination for today so we are driving from here uh all the way to Nakhon Phanom which is where Note's Mom and her husband lives for the winter months of the year and we are really putting Rocket to the test yeah it's going to be about 4 hours maybe 4 to 5 hours yeah we'll give Rocky a break I think for part of the trip but this is going to be the longest driving day for Rocket since we got everything fixed and checked good luck everyone You Got It Rocky real quick once again thank you to Squarespace for continuing to support our channel and for making it super easy for beginners like us to create a beautiful website whether you need a portfolio website an online store or a personal blog you can use Squarespace's award-winning templates to get started there is so much you can do to your website you can add videos at your social media manage a store and they keep rolling out with new features and with the easy to use drag and drop editor you can design your page exactly the way you want it to look just head over to squarespace.com for a free trial and when you're ready to launch go to squarespace.com/floraandnote to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain now let's get back to the video you hungry getting there let's uh grab something to eat I look on Google Map and I think there's a grilled chicken place up there grilled chicken Isan grilled chicken chicken and som tam nice we haven't had that yet we have to have that are all these yellow signs leading up to the chicken uhh what does it say it said wow it's a real street style just park right here nice let's go are those real or a fake chicken they're real oh they're nice and hot 120 Baht each that looks so good and it's like golden brown that looks so good this is real street food yeah look this is Highway food you hear like cars and trucks go by in the back oh my God it's so tender and it's not fat at all it's like the crispy skin it's so thin how how is the chicken so perfect and this is not even like a a famous place or anything literally just on the side of the highway Isan food just hit different which means um very what's that it's delicious and spicy yeah it's so spicy that you go like that hi guys you wiggling your tail here over here over there you go this one for you okay if we have left over then we can share with them too yeah yeah you guys are so cute my only concern about eating this is that I will get sleepy sticky rice get sticky rice coma yeah when I was in the Army I used to eat sticky rice every day for breakfast for lunch for dinner I don't know how I survived that and not being sleepy and be able to train where are you taking me this is another Hidden Gem you found mhm I'm not exactly sure where we are I um was just zooming zooming in on the Google Map and we were pretty close to this White Lotus Temple and it looked amazing it's certainly another Hidden Gem of Udon Thani because not not many reviews or anything but the Google map directions to get there seem a bit confused yeah so I don't know how we ended up here but we are literally 7 minutes away apparently we just don't see anything that looks remotely like a lake around here just a lot of dry rice fields and a lot of starving cows because there's nothing to eat it's so so dry around here it's supposed to be a floating temple right yeah so it needs a lake or some sort of um man-made body of water I guess I don't know we have to turn around we came the wrong way oh there's a bike there this might be it we made it finally made it it kind of appeared out of nowhere it's huge it looks like the Sydney Opera House we're at the entrance of the temple now and protecting the temple are two nagas and nagas are mythical creatures they are serpents that basically don't let any of the negative energy the bad energy to enter the temple so they're here to stand guard and protect it and you know in Udon Thani people believe that here is the origin of Naga this is where Naga lives there's a place in Udon Thani where they consider it a gateway to the underworld where Naga lives so people here worship Naga is this where um you told me on the news one time that someone said there is a Naga under their house so uh they dug up their house is it there's the lady in Isan somewhere I'm not sure if it's Udon Thani but she went to a fortune teller and the fortune teller said there's a Naga living under your house you need to like release it release it release the bad luck so she dug up her house and they didn't find Naga but she now she's homeless yeah shouldn't laugh but then well they take it very seriously yeah hopefully the community helped her rebuild her house this is beautiful oh the echo is so strong the details are incredible like all the ceiling is gold but then the walls are full of colorful probably stories of Buddha yes and teach and even the shape of the windows you can see they're like Lotus shape yeah Lotus petals and there's eight eight Windows here so the symbol of this Temple here the White Lotus is quite important for Buddhism because a White Lotus symbolizes um resilience and purity because the flower normally grows out of like mud under like murky water and it rises up above all of that and becomes a beautiful flower quite like the human nature like humans we are grown to go through like suffering that's like the murky water the mud and then we can rise above that and become a lotus can you believe it we made it we made it to Nakhon Phanom just in time for dinner yeah I got to say that my Father did a good job fixing up Rocket it was so smooth 4 hours nonstop and here's my Mom's place is it the one here with the Christmas tree still yeah she still have her Christmas tree up maybe she wanted to light it up so we can recognize the house yeah I'll go park right beside you did a great job babe Rocket did a great job it's so funny because I think your Mom's house is the only one in Nakhon Phanom that has both a Christmas tree and a Canadian flag on it she said during Christmas all the villagers around here came to take photos here she also put like a huge Santa Claus or something like a blowoff Santa yeah okay let's go see Mom hello who is that is that Jasmine are you Jasmine you're new last time we were here you weren't here are you Jasmine where's Mom do you know where Mom is huh okay we should go see Mom first you scared me good to see you we were afraid that you you won't recognize the house that's why we turn on the Christmas light oh that's actually said to Note I was like I feel like they turned it on for us cheers to reuniting to uh to Rocket oh to Rocket making it here oh yeah congratulations to family to all the cats
2024-03-05 21:00
