Speechless in PHETCHABUN Province Beauty Like Nowhere Else
welcome back welcome to Phetchabun this is the final province of northern thailand and as you can see i think we've saved the best to last there will be more than one video from this province it's huge it has a wealth of mountains and incredible scenery i mean i'm literally close to tears this is the most beautiful place i've ever seen in thailand i mean i'm just staring up at this there's the moon there's venus there's the sunset there's wind farms just flapping in the distance and of course we have a five-headed beautiful i mean oh jesus i'm i'm completely lost for words petrobun okay day one we're going to be exploring these mountains directly behind my accommodation i found this place 1 000 bar at night with this view my bedroom has this view this morning the clouds the sunrise it was just amazing literally from my bed for 30 dollars incredibly cheap very very very good value and over there you can see in the distance the five-headed temple the golden mosaic temples right next to it we'll go there in the afternoon but to the left is a mountain village lots of beautiful restaurants and hopefully amazing views it's lunch time i'm hungry so let's go it's a bit windy today they call this place the alps of thailand and you can kind of see why it's got pine trees beautiful forest mountains clean fresh air and the temperatures very mild middle of the day here in november it's 24 celsius and at night it gets quite chilly but come here in december it will be very cold very very cold and what we're going to do is just going to go get some lunch like i said so let's go up some of these steep roads okay then here we are at the top one of you guys has recommended this place it's called pino latte seems to be at the highest point and got the best view and the best food according to one of you guys i think i've had a bit of a fail here so it's beautiful and you get to the cafe on the left-hand side there's a huge cafe and they mainly have desserts they have an incredible cake selection so many different types of yummy looking cakes but then they just had like pizza and some basic dishes so i came back over this side in the bigger main restaurant area and they had a slightly bigger menu and i ordered a salad a little fruit salad but it's turned out to be massive it looks good but it's huge and then i ordered beef pad kapow which actually looks really nice the egg is overcooked but i've just tasted it and it's the meat is very tender and juicy but um it doesn't taste like it's just come out of a wok it's not very hot the fruit salad looks really good to be fair it's got melon apple rose apple this smells amazing very rare to get kiwi very a very nice treat i'm glad i ordered two things actually because as delicious as the meat is on this pad kapow it's just a bit cold the reason why i'm a little bit picky about this is all of this costs 500 baht which is very expensive very expensive this is normally 40 baht a salad maybe 120 and then an iced tea but it's double or triple the price of normal because it's up here and it's the place to be seen you know so i'll eat this and if we have room we'll try and squeeze in a cake because they looked amazing i decided against cake they were pretty expensive and i'm not made of money we'll just get snickers at 7-eleven oh should we go down here let's go off-road why not come on dreamy don't whinge it'll be fine it'll be fine it's a lovely day what is this is this wild rice this is wild rice just growing on this dirt track you can tell it's wild because it's growing at different heights and it's not in any sort of order where am i going i really don't know where i'm going um this'll do wow and in the distance there you can see the beautiful wind farms on top of that mountain ridge in that direction i think we'll go there in the next video perhaps i'm changing location staying in this area but we're going to upgrade our accommodation and then oh because i'm where i'm staying it's nice and the view is incredible but i found an even well you'll see in the next video it's truly magical and there's so much to do in these mountains and there's about three or four mountain ranges in this province this is just one area i was thinking last night there might be five videos just from this province i think we did three in chiang rai obviously we did dozens of chiang mai because i was living there for a long time before we started the trip but some of these little provinces in northern thailand we've just done one video one video one video i was in nan for five days but i only made one video just because you know sometimes i wanna just enjoy not like not like i don't enjoy when i'm filming but you know put the camera down and go to the night market and just do my thing jesus is beautiful here i think up there with naan and shangri-province pechabun is a very very close joint third or joint second in terms of its views guys there's something about this this time of year it's so fresh up here visibility infinite blue skies green mountains fresh air and just incredible roads i mean look at these pine trees oh my god see i can see why it's like the alps you know um they might even import these you know just to give it that extra switzerland vibe anyway let's get a snickers bar look at this 7-eleven is that not the fanciest 7-eleven you've ever seen wow there's a upstairs and a downstairs just a small one there's something about a half melted snickers bar that just gets me anyway enough about snickers bar let's go inside the amazing temple because that's why he clicked on this video let's be honest and i'll teach you about it because i actually went yesterday i went there like four o'clock in the afternoon with the idea to go film you know this part of the video however when i got there i was just so blown away as you'll see there are so much air there are so many areas so much detail so much awe-inspiring places and views and interesting things about this temple that by the time i had a good walk around it was dark and i had missed the opportunity to film because it was that it was just that i got lost within this temple it's incredible and so last night i got on the phone to miss p and i asked her to help me research about it because i want to be able to tell you some of the things that are going on visually because it there's well you'll see there's no temple like this in thailand there's a lot going on here so bear with me over the next minute while i explain what's going on here what's the meaning behind all this visual artistic expression so let's start with the five-headed buddha which we will go take a closer look of in a second the translation from thai into english is the temple on the glass cliff and so it's surrounded by sparkles it's surrounded by glass white marble and just it's glittering okay in the sunlight it's dancing and what you also notice all around is spheres some of them are moving across water some of them are in the rocks in the ground all over the place literally everywhere and depending on the color it's representing the four elements of earth wind water and fire however at the front as you come in there's also a crystal sphere which refracts the light upside down almost flips it 180 which creates this illusion of the five buddhas being upside down and it and if at a certain position you stand there you can really see how the light flips and creates that incredible visual representation of the up and the down the ying and the yang and i just think that's incredibly smart and very creative and as you walk around you see more and more of these spheres and there's lots of imagery of space and the cosmos and when you start looking at it you go wow it's it's made of mosaic and that seems impressive and there are colorful tiles on the floor everywhere however when you get closer up and this is the most magical part about it this is the thing that just blew me away when you get closer you know just like the cosmos physics is the study of the very big and the very small and here there is both you can study and admire the very big pagoda or the very giant you know image of buddha there but also you can get lost in the intricacy of the minute in the walls it looks like smashed plates and smashed tiles and you know mosaic from slightly far away but the closer you get the closer you get microscopically coming closer you notice just how much detail and painstaking art and craftsmanship has gone into the mosaic on the walls on the stairs everywhere it's all just so pinpoint lots of porcelain plates and perfectly polished you know spheres and just the more you look the more you can't believe it i can't actually believe it it's unbelievable and it's everywhere and you know it's it's dancing in the light it's just giving so much depth so much it's just i mean it's i mean this is why i'm speechless last night when i came here you know i spent two hours just looking at everything and you know there's not many people here which is nice so you're not crowded you don't feel like you need to go everywhere still not fully finished they're still building there's construction going on in a couple of directions i mean it must have taken it must have taken 10 years to make this i mean i don't know how they've done it and let's go have a little closer look and then we'll go over to the incredible statue of the buddha over there and me and miss p we were trying to research last night she couldn't find out neither could i the significance of why it's five and why did they progressively get bigger and we couldn't find the answer so if you know if you're thai or you know the history or the story behind it let us know in the comments however you know like any good art it doesn't need explanation you know this artistic expression and it's meant to make you think um but if there is a story behind it i'd love to know so let me know in the comments but also why does the third buddha have a golden armband i'd love to know that but again if that's the artist just expressing his version of the buddha and what he sees and how he wants to portray or she then that's great we'll leave it at that the only negative by the way of this entire area which i always like to point out the one thing i don't like about something because i'm british is the road there's a road that goes right through the middle and splits both of the temples and i don't know you get a noisy truck and a group of motorcyclists driving through here and they make an absolute racket which isn't what you want next to one of the most sacred most beautiful artistic installations in the whole country having said that the mountains the blue skies the incredible views the artistic expression the incredible intricacies and the damn right awe-inspiring feeling you feel when you're here kind of make up for the little road going through the middle but you know nitpicking as always just below there's actually a beautiful garden here with ponds and a really incredible waterfall it's all man-made but it's very well done and they have these incredible flowers here look at these you see these i've never seen these before oh it's a bit windy today calm down um but what i love is even in the water features they have the balls the spheres the cosmos is is flowing into the water here and i mean they're so creative thai people and recently i was talking about getting temple doubt or temple fatigue this has completely got gotten rid of that like yes there are hundreds of temples in this province and i only really want to come to this one because i mean it's buddhism why you know yes there are incredible cathedrals all around europe but are they this different to each other you know like just thinking back to the sky temple in lampang and the golden and white and blue temples we've seen we've seen this and just so many others i can't even remember because i've just been seeing so many incredibly unique different super creative expressions of the religion you know it's they're not just crosses on us on a spike you know mosques kind of look the same don't they except for the really spectacular ones in istanbul and there's a couple in malaysia i remember but even the big ones in thailand are a little bit like okay but buddhism they get an a star for their artistic expression of their religion and their belief and everything sorry i'm just in the middle of the jungle here let's go up and get a real good look at this incredible piece of art okay and there we have it and there's something i really want to do but i won't do and that's fly the drone the reason why is i really want to get a perspective of this circular art piece here because it's really interesting and i think just going up 100 meters would give it such an amazing perspective and i can maybe figure out what it is because it's quite hard to figure out from just walking on top of it but anyway um i also don't want this wind to fling my little sparky into the face of one of those statues can you imagine if i damaged it and got in serious trouble plus i don't really think it feels right to fly a drone when something's so epic and beautiful here and i also did a little research on youtube and there's no drone footage of this thing so i think they must be banned although i haven't seen a single sign anyway that was a filmmaker's rant um look i was here yesterday for three hours and i just couldn't take my eyes off this thing the more you look at it the more you see especially when it comes to the crown there's so much going on up there and the intricacies and the the perfection of the carving and the contours of the faces and the body and the shoulders and the way the knees just keep like dancing the light certain ways and then you've obviously just got the mountains and the nature and the clouds passing quite quickly which is incredible especially in this wind it just looks amazing as the clouds fly past and and don't get me started on the view i mean this place has it all you know it has the views it has the temple vibes it has the incredible art and you know i'll what i'm gonna do is just hang around wait for the um sun to go down secretly i filmed that yesterday and we'll finish with the evening segment because i want to show you what this place looks like in the afternoon light and even at night when it turns when they turn the lights on plus there seems to be some sort of um ceremony going on so i don't want to be talking so cut to six o'clock in the afternoon okay it's six o'clock now and we haven't been kicked out in fact they've turned the lights on the mosaic temple is a light and being i mean the way that the lights shimmering off the mosaics and the little bits of glass and mirror and stuff that's in the walls it's incredible it's really it's really shimmering and the stars are coming out i can see the moon i can see venus venus is so bright isn't she oh good lord so that was the first part of pechabun and the sun's just doing that thing you know that japanese thing where this the rays of sunlight i don't think japan owned the rights to that uh marvel but for some reason it reminds me of the japanese flag you know what i'm talking about that like red flag with the red things anyway rambling i'm always rambling when i'm just blown away by the beauty of somewhere and i don't know what to say so i'll say goodbye and i'll see you in the next video in picture boom you
2021-11-16 12:27
