Taking The Scenic Route to Hua Hin Thailand
today we are attempting to drive to wahin it is 300 kilometers in this direction up the coastal scenic road in chiang paon and prachua kirikan province plateau up kirikan province that is a belter of a province name and we have the joy the privilege of driving our little honda all the way up now we could cheat and go 15 kilometers inland hop on the highway and be there in a few hours but we're not going to do that we're going to take the slow scenic gorgeous route it is a beautiful day it is a great day to be alive so come and join us strap in as we drive to wahin via the scenic coastal road let's go 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 okay welcome back we got a long day today so the bag's going in front of me and i'm going to try my best to show you all of the coast up towards wahine but it's going to be like this the whole way the coast is going to be on our right it's a beautiful day there's going to be palm trees we're going to go past dozens and dozens of beaches and so it's going to be hard not to just stop every five minutes i mean look at this this is a tongue lane beach this is where i've been based for the past four nights i used to live here it is postcard paradise in champagne but you know we've got a little bit of distance to cover today and i want to get to wahin and check into my airbnb before dark and this road you know if it takes four hours on the highway what's it gonna take on this so i'm gonna balance getting distance with showing you this scenic route okay uh so this is just a beautiful little fishing pier and there's fishing boats out here and they're getting ready to go out fishing you can probably hear the drone whizzing around there he is some of you asked me like oh who's flying your drone for you it does it by itself look can you see it's locked onto me and it's just doing stuff and then i use those clips later if i need them i love the dji spark it's like a five-year-old drone and it is a workhorse anyway been taking some instagrams um saying goodbye to this beautiful place this incredibly beautiful place of sapling and tungle lane in in northern champaign just wait for the drone to come back you want to see something cool once it's got the shot i need i can fly it but it will fly back to me by itself but i can switch it to sport mode and get it back and watch this ready ready ready oh yeah such a cool little toy this is the beginning this is the beginning look it says scenic route road 2021. now is that a coincidence um because it's the year 2021 i don't know basically every time you're presented with an opportunity of a left or a right if you're going north like we are always turn right and then the coast will always be on your right hand side if you turn left you risk getting spat out on the highway and then temptation comes in oh i'll just go up the highway a little bit and then bang you're in wahine so let's have a look at some of the sights bang sapan is an 88 we'll stop there for lunch and there's a bunch of beautiful beaches on the sign okay whatever let's just it go again turns into ashes but here you are still in my arms it's just another beautiful long bay but i do have to stop because i can tell you a little story a funny story about this island just off the coast here let me just park up and i'll take you to the beach don't ask me the name of this beach i don't know it's just one of the you know dozens and dozens of beaches along the road but let me get down here in the distance over there can you see that is chicken island or ko kai a long long time ago me and some friends and my father who was visiting at the time we went over there on sort of like a mission to clean up the beach because it's uninhabited and welcome to the beautiful island of uh chicken island in champon thailand and today me and a bunch of friends have come here to help clean up the island because many people from thailand and tourists come here and they leave their rubbish their bottles their equipment their food wrappers plastic bottles many many bad things for the environment it was covered in trash and so a bunch of people who lived here in trampon we took a fishing boat over there and spent the whole day um installing a you know rubbish area bins recycling bins and cleaning up the whole island and it was really good fun and it felt great to do it but the funny part is um i think a couple of days later me and my old man were like let's go camping there so we bought a secondhand tent or something from tesco lotus we got sausages we got a barbecue we got a bottle of whiskey some beers we even took a spear gun we we envisioned we would catch fish with a spear gun which i broke in five seconds and uh so we were just like absolutely useless campers and i was taking care of a dog that i uh found for a while and i said we brought the puppy with us so it was me my dad and the little dog on that chicken island and we set up the camp and we cooked the sausages and we got steam and drunk and it was really fun and then in the middle of the night there was a huge storm and we got absolutely soaked and like there was about six inches of water inside the tent and me and my dad and the dog were screaming and howling and we were singing it's we're singing in the rain and the dog blessed her she was petrified because there was lightning everywhere and it kind of just localized all around the island and it was a proper like dark funny but scary night and then in the morning me and my dad called the fight the fisherman and he came and picked us up and we sort of licked our wounds went back to the beach and had a full english breakfast and vowed never ever to go camping on a deserted island ever again this is a good a day yes they need to start the rebuilding of life the roads that they open are many when the old one's gone under the knife and i can't feel the sun on my skin from within today and not tomorrow there's no time i just saw this cute little pier and i thought how could i not drive down this thing to the right fishing village an incredible beach to the left another incredible long bay i mean it just doesn't stop it doesn't stop it's never ending okay i hope i can turn around at the end of this peel oh deary me this thing's falling apart as well can you see look at the state of it here all rusted away and exposed wow oh there's a cave over there as well wow i just drove past that fishing village actually looked really nice and they kind of just have this private bay i mean in some parts of thailand they would brag about this as the number one spot in the province they'd be like oh this is a the so-and-so bay and you know there'd be five-star hotels like in crabby and stuff but champagne being kind of like unknown it's just like no we just this is just where we hang out and catch fish no big deal we just live in paradise don't worry about it today there's no time today a lot of people ask me what do you do with your equipment when you're out filming and you leave your bike here's my basket it's got my drone it's got my phone it's got my gopro now i'm holding my gopro t-shirt out of sight out of mind genius i know believe it or not thai people are pretty much 100 percent good people honestly there's not a bad egg amongst them can you feel it and look how flat and protected this bay is i flew the drone just before it ran out of sd card battery and you can see the the port where the oil tankers are coming here it's beautiful oh we're at nipple height now okay oh it's nice and cold it's nice and cold as always i'll leave the link to the places that i go to every video i leave a link in the description to every point of interest i know it's a lot of work to follow along and save them as we go some of you might be doing it but this bay save it in your maps because there are restaurants hotels in this area practically somewhere three hours south of wahine there is paradise oh this bits extra cold why is that this bit was colder than that bit it's weird i just had a look at the map now i'm on the highway here the scenic roads kind of finished for about 50 or 60 kilometers then i can turn right again and go back on the coast road wow it's hot as hell cheeky little mixed fruit yogurt bottle of coconut water and then i'm gonna pour a shitload of this nice cold water in this bottle here into the helmet and over my head otherwise i'm gonna boil like a bloody chicken starting to think that i was uh over optimistic today 280 kilometers oh yeah yeah six hours no problem it just starts to become really mundane i don't like doing these 200 plus days i've only done i think three or four uh since the three months we've been doing this trip normally we're going small province to small province and a little distance a little distance but prachu is a bloody long and long province and uh we had to start from halfway up trump on as well so this part of thailand this skinny part in the middle as you can see it's skinny but it's long it's a few thousand kilometers from up to the you know the middle area maybe one maybe one and a half thousand kilometers but it feels like forever on this little baby oh a little kind of um little test that i'm gonna do have a look at this right obviously i normally have my gopro here but what happens if we switch up a little bit today because i've had this gopro mount stuck super glued to the front of my little honda since we started this trip but we never used it we never used it so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna have this cable put it up my shirt to here or something i mean it's more interesting what's in front of me obviously because i can show you as i'm talking about it but let's let's switch up a little bit and if this is good if this looks cool if you can still hear me and it makes it more dynamic come on finger caught my tripod uh then maybe we can invest in another gopro have this one have that one switch between the two can you hear me okay you should be able to hear me take this chest mount off because it's an older gopro um there's no front facing screen this is a gopro seven let me just wipe the lens a bit there's quite a bit of sun cream on there that'll do for now i think i just made it way worse start the old engine because you know it's nice for you to see me talking isn't it let me turn my mask up a bit so you can see me see what all of my handsome face when the sun's behind me like this the gopro will struggle but now it should be a little bit better and uh i think how's the audio can you still hear me okay i'm not going super quick so let's just do a little tester rooney um hello my name name's paddy doyle okay here's another thing i want to test it's me if you don't believe me look four three two two two one um i've put the microphone inside the helmet dana told me you could do this when he gave me the helmet but i was kind of like yeah sure whatever it did but i mean this is just another test i mean if it sounds good if you can hear me perfectly if you can hear my perfect singing voice um then that will be a good thing but then i'm also kind of like well now you can't hear any of the ambient outside noise or maybe you can whoa big truck maybe you can hear all that stuff man i'm loving loving this shade my ass is officially dead oh lord won't you buy me a harder dream my friends all have phenos but they are shitty i worked hard all my lifetime no help from my friends so lord won't you buy me a haunted dream this place looks sick this place looks really nice jesus paddy p.a okay feel free turns into ashes but here you are still in my it's true this beach is massive this is not a town this is a massive city stretched out in both directions north and south as far as i can see in that direction there are skyscrapers and tall buildings and as far as i can see in that direction there are skyscrapers and tall buildings and some sort of temple on that structure i'm really excited to explore who i am and uh relax in my airbnb i've checked in already actually and have a look at the pool it's pretty nice isn't it and then i have a look at the room really nice i'll do a video or i'll talk about it more in the next video the next video i will explore more of prachuap kirikan and more of hua hin and then on beyond that way to pecha bury banana boats jet skis kite surfing horseback riding the beach is packed the beach is packed it is saturday actually so that probably explains why all the tires are here from bangkok bangkok's three hours away three hours we could be on khao san road having a beer well maybe not but we're close we're getting close anyway thanks for watching i'm gonna enjoy here for the next week see you in the next video bye today is a good day
2021-06-28 22:36
