Road Trip to Spectacular Mangroves of Thailand
first time ever exploring a Navy ship oh no my letters just flew away never a dull moment in Thailand thought I would go to a viewpoint but I ended up in one of the most beautiful places in this area all right all right guys welcome to another video I'm here in chanta bery Thailand and I'm about to leave this place I've been here for 5 days almost 4 days actually but now we're going back to rayong and on the way we will make a few stops check some places maybe find some food as well let's go all right let's go all right guys we made it to htms press Memorial which is a Old Navy ship you can see it right here it looks looks really really huge and it's open for tourists so we can visit it I'm not sure if we can explore the whole boat but um I'm definitely going to have a look okay let's go and explore that ship it seems like they're still um putting some concrete here to make it more accessible but uh let's see what the entrance fee is uh what we can see inside it's a retired Navy ship and uh it looks very impressive look at the size of it look at the size of it first time ever exploring a Navy ship wow let's see let's see htms prai exhibition room but it seems to be locked yeah it is locked okay let's go to the front first and see what we can spot there wow it's really really solid solid metal wow I wonder how old it is maybe we can find a date somewhere maybe here there's like a a uh information board here uh I have no idea what all this means no idea so I found a little bit of information online the htms prasai was originally commissioned as the USS gallop and saw action in World War II and the Korean war in 1951 the ship was transferred to Thailand and served in the Royal Tha Navy as the htms prai until June 22 2000 so the ship has been out of use for 24 years already now um and it's about 70 years old now wow this is unbreakable I would say well except for corrosion that you can see here but if you maintain this this is unbreakable wow look at the size of all this insane and here we have a Canon or how you call this a gun but a huge one look at this imagine operating this back in the day I don't know how it even works I think you have to look in here now this is where you put the bullet probably so yeah you put a bullet here but how do you aim I'm not really sure well it's it's not in news anymore obviously they blocked all the mechanisms I wonder how many bullets have been uh shot from this gun let's see at the front H look at this chain wow this must have cost so much money all this metal wow okay yeah let's continue exploring now so there's not really much information to be found about this ship except that it was used in the World War II and in the Vietnamese Thai War maybe on that board there but it seems like yeah it seems like they're still pouring concrete I'm think they will make it a bit more nice probably there there's like a board with information so it's still under construction this uh yeah this tourist attraction is still under construction and it seems like there's a little ladder here um shall we go up uh let's finish this deck first and then we go to the upper deck let's go too bad that all these doors are locked because I wish I could go inside I don't think there's electricity on this boat not anymore and here the rescue boat yeah this one is not metal that's pester or something obviously wow they have even more guns yeah over the see it was a warship so there's so many guns but look at this look at this ooh and this one still works yeah this is how they used to do it oh I cannot lift it though but just sideways wow really cool really cool hello look at the side of this gun look at this I'm breaking it not sure what this is let's see okay no idea here another gun the third one that I spotted it's the same one as the other but these don't move anymore maybe if I turn this oh yeah it does it does move it still moves so if you turn this the gun will move oh it's pretty hard though let's see if my gym works you see you can turn it if you turn this the gun will turn as wello hard work here with this th weather I think there's even like two chairs here that's one chair and that's another one so you can sit with two people I guess one will reload yeah I guess this one will reload the bullets all the time and also move it maybe and then this one uh I don't know what this one would do not sure okay let's go to the lower deck and after that we go to the upper deck here even more weapons wow three of them even [Music] okay it seems there's still electricity here I hear the clock ticking I'm not going to do that metal cables oh what is this I think this is if they want to load cargo onto the ship that's what they use probably for that and then here oh we can go even down it looks a little bit tricky though but I think we can go down this is the engine room you know what I'm not going down it's too dark anyway to film there but uh this is definitely the engine room okay there's actually two more levels that we can visit but let's start with the top one now wow impressive impressive imagine how much time this has taken to build like everything solid metal must have taken years oh this is the captain's hot definitely wow look at this H what is this this is some kind of compass I think I don't know and this I really have no idea what I'm looking at most of the electricity and the wiring is gone but you still get the IDE wow all these meters wow something broken though okay this is pretty much the highest point that we can reach right now I mean I could go up here but there's no official ladder but imagine being up there on that Master [Music] wow oh the ladder is actually here but uh I don't think I will risk it because the corrosion and everything especially that high I'm sure there's a lot of corrosion so there's a ladder here I can switch to that ladder then another lad then another lad it switches all the time nah I'm not going to risk my life for uh for this too bad all the doors to go inside are locked because that's probably also interesting to see but uh yeah another time maybe I think they're still restoring it a little bit you can see it around they're installing a nice Terrace and everything so maybe later on they will restore the inside and then we will be able to go inside and this is where we are the upper deck now it doesn't get much higher than this wow and look at the logo there look so cool is that the Navy logo of Thailand I'm not sure probably okay guys I think we're pretty much done here done exploring this Navy ship I must say it's very impressive like if you're in this area you definitely have to pay this a visit and I hope soon you will be able to visit the inside as well that would be extra cool because apparently they have an exhibition room room but it's just not in use right now or not today or something I don't know but uh I'm leaving because uh from all this Navy ship exploring I get quite hungry so let's fight some food now I hope you can uh hear me because it's so windy here but I'm super hungry and uh in desperate need of some food you a big TI uh yes yes yes uh which one did I say uh St wait uh here maybe uh this one okay okay do you do with rice with rice also how uh just this or rice rice uh you also do rice no no okay yes oh yes yes yes yes uh with uh steam dries yes stream dries okay I do stream dries here one one one one one okay thank you C on cup so we're ordering some pork and some uh streamed rice I hope it can handle 85 kilos ah it's okay getting my appetite in okay that's enough that's enough youy uh okay okay okay she said you're spicy and there I see a lot of chilies here like look at this so we will see if I'm spicy oh no my Letts just flew away I don't know if you got that on camera but my lettuce it's so windy here so there I had one leaf of lettuce and it's gone now I hope my meat doesn't fly away let's eat it before everything flies away so we have pork belly with lots of chili look at this just I'm not going to eat all of that just a little bit and lots of garlic wow look at this it's just all garlic almost luckily I don't have any dates today so I can eat as much garlic as I want it's a little bit too windy here to eat okay let's give it a try pork and stream dries o all good so there crispy but then this is soft together with the rice and the fried garlic a little bit of chili o oh good it's really good the only problem is all my food is frying away look at this yeah guys it's definitely spicy I'm trying to avoid a chili but of course this dish has to be spicy but not super super spicy if I would all eat if I would eat all these chilies I would be sweating buckets luckily there's a breeze but it's not even a breeze it's a strong strong wind but it's so good it's really great all right guys finished up my meal but I must say I didn't finish all the chilies it's just it's just way too much my m is on fire but uh it's not like the painful fire it's the good fire but if I will keep eating this it will be the painful fire so I'm done with my meal now as as the bill check B oh they call it check bill here so I know already that I have to do like this but they call it check bill so it's check and Bill okay I'll put it here it's okay it's okay okay okay thank you c car wow my money is flying away almost here okay but the foot was really good like extremely good c c all right I think maybe just maybe I might go for a dessert because I saw something very interesting here and it's it would be almost a crime not to go there that's the restaurant that I had my food here very good very good food not sure what the name is but it was really good bye thank you bye-bye and very friendly people as well wow my lips are a bit numb that's why I cannot speak properly from the spicy food wow and what a car look at this yeah so when I saw this place Dua Tim yeah it would almost be a crime not to go here it's made for me it's my name is on it literally du Tim and it says low fat low sugar low calories that's exact exactly what I need really how could I say no oh and they have this kind of special wafer cones Japanese style um can I do a small one small uh uh which flavor is maybe strawberry strawberry yeah one strawberry please oh du thing look at this lovea but low sugar low calories is it your shop your shop no oh sorry wait wait I'll I'll get the money first okay your name is Tim no you speak English no no because Tim what does it mean Tim thank you yeah I was wondering if her name is Tim maybe that's why they call it Dua Tim but it definitely comes from the motorbike brand ducatti and maybe the name is Tim her name or her boss's name well it is actually low sugar you can tast is not as sweet as the other ice cream that I had before it's a little bit yogurty it's like um a yogurt kind of ice cream which I love you have to eat it fast though it's dripping already wow it's really good so if you're coming to the Navy ship here this is the Navy ship the ice cream shop is right there look at Tim come here so good ooh they're riding an electric car here look at this going wild look at that going all crazy it's putting up a show okay guys we had a nice visit here at the Navy ship had some really good food and then had a wonderful ice cream but now it's time to get moving and I found that there's a Viewpoint only 7 Minutes driving from here so I'll go there first and then I'll continue to rayong Tong prong that's where we're going I think let's go I was thinking we're going to a viewpoint but this seems to be a quite a big operation I saw already two parking spots um and this is like the official entrance so it's really more than a Viewpoint let's see what else we can do here looks like a really big operation oh parking okay okay turn around okay okay okay so we have made it to Tong prong Tong which is the Golden Meadow I on Google Maps I saw a Viewpoint which was somewhere there but there was a lady there that was pointing me this direction she said like no no no don't go there because I think it was like a small small street so she was pointing me here so she thought I was coming here and actually I'm not mad about it because it looks really beautiful honestly on Google Maps here it looks kind of gorgeous so I'm just going to have a look s c they're fixing up the boat here yeah um it looks like a beautiful nature spot actually so let's have a look some souvenir shops as well so yeah it's definitely a tourist [Music] spot I wonder if I need to pay entrance I see a lot of people there with flu jackets but is there like an entrance view or something oh everything is in tie but we can see on the pictures well that's a drone shot but it looks very beautiful it's like a bird sanctuary like lots of green like a boardwalk in the forest the temple as well well let's go and and see oh look they're drying the fish there that's really cool I never saw it like that just chop off the head and then let it dry in the sun oh wow it looks already really cool here look at this look at this in the middle of the trees like a boardwalk oh it's actually the mro here so probably depending on the tide the water would be higher but now it's low tide wow look at all these trees you can see the roots you know well that's typical Mangrove style but it looks so impressive wow okay I'm not not mad that that lady sent me here let's go and explore a bit now I don't even know how big this is how long can I walk here I have really have no clue thank you yeah I don't even know what what where I am cuz there's nothing in English here everything is in written in Thai I could probably translate it but yeah let's just Discover it there are like some picnic spots here but mainly it's just like a boardwalk into the mangroves kind of cool if you ask me I've never been in a mangrove like this I've only been in mangroves in India I think and it was uh on a canoe or on a kayak wow wow it's really impressive look at this we're surrounded by Greenery so look at this there's also like a sign there I'm really not sure what it means thumbnail attempt also here it says Observatory distance 70 M that looks kind of cool let's go there okay we have the observatory here let's go up there in all honesty it feels a tiny bit scary to walk on these stairs because you can see through them and it's pretty deep you know if you couldn't see through them it's okay but it's pretty high already look okay guys this is the view from on top wow look at this all manang grows this is the river that streams to the Sea and surrounded by mangroves pretty cool pretty cool feels a tiny bit scary to Stand Here a tiny bit because the thing is you know the thing is it's very windy and you see the trees moving and because of the movement of the trees it feels like you are moving but that's just an illusion you know I'm not moving but it feels almost like you're moving because you're fixating uh on the strees so you shouldn't do that if I look down you know it's okay but as soon as I see the trees moving it feels like whoa it's a bit scary but it's okay it's okay what's the worst thing that can happen ooh and they do boat rides here look at this they don't hear me I wonder if it's for tourists or is it just uh going home or something or going fishing yeah I just wish that the observatory was like a tiny bit higher uh so you could see over the mangroves have a further view but yeah maybe they built this when the trees were still smaller you know yeah I don't know but still it's beautiful don't get me wrong don't don't get me wrong it's really beautiful I wonder what kind of wildlife is roaming around in these mangroves maybe some crocodiles I don't know and what is that right there look at it it's almost like a long bean not sure if it is but might be there as well all these trees have some kind of fruit and it seems like maybe even almost ready if you know what it is yeah if you know what it is let me know in the comments wow I'm so impressed how beautiful it is here it's really insane yeah I must say it's really nice how Thailand um is taking care of its nature they really preserve well keep it clean that's like a must for me you know like Nature has been here so long we're only here temporary you know nature is here to stay so we have to take care of her wow and in Thailand they really do and look at all these fish here like really a lot and I was wondering like why are they all here but then I realized they're selling food here and it's on a like a donation base or something uh you pay 10 BT you take your bag leave your 10 B and you feed the fish maybe I should do that I'll do that I think I have a 10 here this is a 10 10 Bots let's feed the fish or is it five I don't know I don't see any tens in here well this is a 10 okay and then we will pick the fishes H it's definitely not for humans smells like fish food which it is obviously let's let's do it let's feed some oh they already know that I'm coming you can hear them oh wow they're going crazy they're going crazy w wow I didn't expect this much wow okay let's put some on the other side as well I mean wow there's so many fish here it's insane look at this look at all these fish here let's throw some there actually you know we need to keep everybody happy wow they're just going berserk over that fish fuit let's throw some there wow they're really going crazy okay let's just do a splash it everywhere let's let's do [Applause] it look at [Applause] this these fish going crazy for the fish food wow they must really love this food but um with this you know with this kind of system you can see how honest TI people are they just trust people to leave some coins and then take only food it's like uh very nice very nice let's keep exploring some my pool I think this is where you can rent a boat actually or maybe the boat just comes here and then there's a Temple here wow it's like a whole Gathering here look at this they have the pigs head even I wonder if this is like um an offer that they make look at all this food is are they offering this oh hello s wow everybody is looking at me wow I think you going they're going to burn this you will burn this burn this oh for a sacrifice or offer oh yeah they're going to burn all this look so they're preparing the whole thing here and then they will burn it I think they did it already here yeah I think there's a ceremony going on what is that what is it what is this Hong Tong it's strong strong he's offering me some drink here he's offering me this drink what is this beer Hong hongtong Blended Spirit Oh I thought there was a ceremony look at the size of this cup even okay ooh good good like disinfectant thank you thank you thank you C and C wow very nice very nice wow Hong Tong well it's actually not that strong because there was ice in it and it dilutes a little bit of course I wonder what they're celebrating there I thought there was like some ceremony going on but then this man offers me alcohol so I don't know if that's part of the ceremony but it's Saturday you know people have to chill Hong you calling me huh up here what is he saying he said he's pointing upwards what is he saying huh I don't know what he's saying what does he need or what does he want what is he doing oh what's that oh they have firecrackers here look at this there's like a whole line of firecrackers look it's going all the way there I think there's like a big ceremony going on what is he doing oh yeah look these are all remains of firecrackers oh yeah I think there's some big celebration going on ah fire when what time what time are you going to light oh now now oh he's going to light it he's going now I want to see it I think he says he's going to light of firecrackers I want to see that what is this uh Ceremony this uh party party yeah ceremony yeah what is it uh what kind of party just Saturday Saturday party ah oh for praying praying it's time to pray now oh he's going to like it and when do you light this this you will light it the firecracker yeah when what time now now okay okay I'll wait a little bit then I want to see that I think they're lighting the fire there what what here oh it's too dangerous I need to be oh okay here here I don't know what they're saying here oh there oh ah I need to go here ah BR yeah okay they need they say I need to hide I want to I want to make video video video yeah they say they fire they will put the firecrackers on I think it will be [Music] really [Music] okay okay wow very nice very nice oh yeah you do this every day every day no every Saturday this Saturday oh wow wow I didn't expect this oh very nice very nice Boardwalk Boardwalk there 2 kilm okay that's good I have strong strong legs good legs okay thank you C cow wow look here all the remains of the firecrackers oh very cool yeah applause applause a that's for the for the lottery for lottery H for money win money ah good luck Good Luck Good Luck good luck oh so they're um I don't know there is some number attached to the firecrackers so they uh they use that number for the lottery then so Random though I thought I was going to a Viewpoint and somehow I ended up in the middle of the mangroves drinking Tong Kong I think and it was I'm here in Tong prong Tong and I had Tong pong what if that was the name I don't know anymore here it's a bit more dense you can see the mangr are overgrowing the pot even never a dull moment in Thailand so when you see a sign board with only Thai language with an exclamation mark I feel like I have to translate it so let's try to translate it ooh no connection no connection I just hope it doesn't say be aware there are giant crocodiles here or something maybe later I'll manage to translate it hopefully not when it's too late but that man he said uh 2 kilm of Boardwalk I think so I mean the only English word that I heard was boardwalk and he was pointing he was doing two so that's probably 2 km so cool here such a Vibe so it seems like I can go back to the Old Navy ship actually because that's htms plusai Memorial and that's this one way so I'm not really planning to go there again because my bike has parked here so I'll just walk a little bit and then return my on my steps because otherwise I have to walk all the way around if I would have known that I could have probably entered this uh this Boardwalk from the memorial but I didn't know that obviously look at this you see the little crab there and basically all these h holes that you see these are all craps so I haven't spotted a really big one yet I think that's the biggest I saw but uh you see so many holes everywhere everywhere these are all crabs it's like a whole crap ecosystem here and these uh these popping sounds all the time I wonder what that is you hear it all the time do you hear that it's like everywhere around all the time popping sounds wonder what that is oh wow beautiful dog can I see W so beautiful W it's a bit tired tired okay enjoy wow that dog he's wearing little shoes even and a hat it's so funny seems like I made it to the Tik Tok spot let's see oh I'm obstructing The View s c I like your tripod good tripod what is the brand of it the this one is good which uh which brand where did you buy it I want to sa okay byebye where are you from uh from Belgium Belgium yes and you Ty Thailand oh from here from around here from where where in Thailand oh okay no I don't know have you been there no I've been in chantaburi chantaburi yeah now I go to Rong oh yeah okay enjoy byebye enjoy so lovely these people here hello okay I don't know what this means but I think it's like goodbye so I'm leaving I'm leaving thought I would go to a viewpoint but I ended up in one of the most beautiful places in this area for sure you just asked to be on a picture yeah yeah okay picture thank you very much you're welcome you're welcome how random oh and the people from the temple have arrived they took the boat instead yeah I saw them loading up everything when they came when I passed by the temple and now I'm here also at the same time back at the dried fish o and in the meanwhile they opened the fish so before it was still closed or they turned it around I guess no no I remember it was closed it was drying and now they open it and it dries the only thing I'm not too sure about is all these flies on there is that part of the process I hope but probably they wash it afterwards but still I'm sure they wash it afterwards look at all these beautiful uh tricycles here it looks really cool actually but they just use a scooter then like a light side car it's a little bit similar similar to what you see in h Philippines but there it's like um a bit more heavy I think they always use a motorbike here they use scooters so it means that the side car lighter I don't know what the ti name is actually it's like a three-wheeler or something but uh it looks cool it looks cool they have these little roofs on top as well so I'm back at my motorbike here it's time to hit the road back to rayong it's about a 1 hour drive and there I will check into my hotel just chill out a little bit and um yeah I think this is the end of the video I've done enough exploring for today honestly I really enjoyed it it was a little bit um unexpected I would say I was just planning to visit the Navy ship but then I saw this place and everything wow really cool actually so if you're in this area the area between chabur and rayong I don't know the exact name but I'll definitely put it on the screen so if you want to explore this area it's definitely worth it so yeah I want to thank you all for watching and you already know if you're still watching you're a legend legend
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