Thailand's ONLY Floating Village With ONLY Muslim People (Is It Safe?)
how old are you 53 you look 25 thank you so 53 years on in Koh Panyee you make my heart happy you make me happy good morning my beautiful people from phang nga Thailand hello the beautiful city in between krabi and phuket surrounded by these mountains as you can see just the rock formations everywhere it's been such a pleasure stay stay here at this hotel actually this is my hotel PR home just to show you right my room literally has a view an amazing view I mean this hotel only cost me about like $25 per night but look at the view I got of this amazing rock formation all day from when the sun was up till the sun was down absolutely beautiful guys but anyway I showed this city I walked through this city a little bit in my last video so if you guys want to see panga you can see it in my last video but today we're doing something a little bit special today we're actually going to be going to a place which you'll see it's a surprise if you read the title you probably already know but some of you may not know have never heard of this place in Thailand I actually have to go take a boat to get there so I have to go to the pier which I'll be going to shortly but first things first guys it's morning I just woke up not too long ago and I need a coffee so we're going to stop for a coffee somewhere over here if I can find a coffee shop now this city of FNA I wouldn't even call it a city really this town is very small so there's not much here oh yeah so there's this mid here and down below it there's a lady making coffee and tea so let's go see if we can go there I don't know if this one is making tea or coffee but let's see I don't think she's making coffee coffee there's not many coffee places here you just kind of got to take what you get you know let's see if this lady Asam alikum C uh me coffee coffe coffe uh yeah this place right hereen kenen oh so she has some like instant coffee so yeah you're not going to get like you know specialty coffee here Specialty Foods but you know you get all of these local businesses there's a nice little Muslim Community here as you can see there's a mjid right here there's a mjid on that side but as as always in Thailand people coexist so you have people from everywhere and then I see some foreigners here too but anyhoo guys I'm going to get a coffee and then I got to head to the pier and then from there it should be a fun day look at that pouring it over the ice amazing 25 baht less than a dollar that's the good thing about these local coffees they're always so cute here in Tyler all right guys here's the coffee from H justad just sine made my coffee this morning amazing uh aloy very good for only 25 baht but yeah guys now I got to figure out how do I get to the pier I don't know if there's grab bike here but we'll figure it out and I'll so unfortunately grab is not available in this area so now I got to figure out how do I get to the peer so since the ride share is not available in the city these people sitting in front of this 7 apparently can take you where you need to go so let's see how this works how bu uh tadan tadan tadan 100 100 yeah Okay C 100 let's go mayow okay okay all right guys we're going to get on the bike and make our way over to tadan here all right guys we have arrived at the pier this pier will take me to where I'm going Asam alum okay we're going to Koh Panyee all right so you guys are going to see what C is here we go so basically they have a few peers now if you want to just take your own kind of Cruiser and not be stuck on a tour cuz most people who come here come for this thing called the James Bond Island where uh there was a very old James Bond in the 70s there was a James Bond movie shot H here known as The Man with the Golden Gun and there's a famous rock that was like on the cover of the movie so most people most tourists who come here they're going to visit that but as you know on Myer travels we always do something a little bit different and you can see they have these little um wooden long boats long tails I think they call them and you can take one to go to kop you can see these people are also going but we have to wait H okay go Koh Panyee Island go can I go I don't know hello brother can I this one full okay I don't know what's happening here hello brother let's go okay uh let's go p I've been to phuket before yeah yeah now I go can I one just me one people yeah no woman my woman is her home okay our woman home my wife home yeah I travel Soo can I go in this boat okay I don't know can I go in this boat I don't know what's happening I think we're going the right way carry Furniture other things should be interesting all right and we're off cost 100 B to take this boat to as opposed to if you took a private boat it would take like 1,000 or 1,500 bot so and you got to have to kind of figure it out on your own but you'll save a lot of money and you don't have to do the whole tour thing it's up to you if you want to do the whole tour you can pay for foree all right guys we are pulling up to the pier now here in Koh Panyee the boat get out of here all right interesting getting in and out of these little boats they're so low but here we are guys we have arrived to the beautiful small quaint island of oh yes yes I have to pay you sorry sorry sorry 100 100 very very thank you very much cup all right guys so welcome to cop so the story of this island basically back in about 200 years ago there was three fishermen from the island of java Japanese fisherman before it was Indonesia before it was Thailand before when these were just like and kingdoms uh these three fishermen basically decided you know what let's go find some new lands some new places where we can get some fish and uh they discovered this area obviously at that time uh the foreigners were not allowed to own land in Thailand so what they did was you know what let's just settle here they used to live on boats and fish out of their boats and sleep on their boats and eventually they decided to build house on stilts like you see a lot of these structures are built on stilts so this is technically a water Village so basically three of them started and now you know 200 years later you have about 15500 residents that live here and all of them are Muslim so it's basically a Muslim Island welcome to kopam alaykum and you can see it's become quite a tourist destination cuz as I mentioned before part of the uh travel part of the people traveling here alayum how are you brother you have coffee H coffee okay it's menu menu okay so we can get some coffee I will come back is there a a rest bathroom here restaurant uh bathroom bathroom H H oh okay okay they basically have these little toilets for for for visitors right here just open it up and this is what it looks like on the inside now we're going to stop and get a coffee from this place mat M ma that's your shop uh the sea from that means from the sea ah what's your name aranam alikum brother my name is Mayer may may yeah yeah I'm Pakistani oh Pak I'm visiting this place and making a video about kopan so you you own this shop and you from kop from K you were born kop K oh Mas okay it's a good nice place huh how many people in kop 1,300 1,300 and and Mah everyone is Muslim huh Muslim alhamdulillah very nice that's amazing uh can I order one lat L IM oh IM IM up Pakistan Pakistan I look Saudi I think so these are my friends from this is the the IM main IM sham shamsin so he's the IM at the Masjid okay okay hold it for oh Che I'm this like a mayor you the mayor yes oh nice to meet you what's what's your name um prit mayor prit ABD CRA ah very nice so very important VIP like uh the mayor of like uh the people for have the problem like ah and Health Center Health Center team oh Rescue Team very nice resue team so you everybody from from kop okay this island how old like 234 234 years similar like Bangkok like Bangkok okay and but from the start it's Muslim Muslim Muslim or Muslim only Muslim long time ago but but anyone can come here everyone is welcome can come nothing about like uh relig alcohol no no alcohol no no uh 100% Halal Halal Island but as you can see there's foreigners from other people they come here to visit every day mallah very good inshallah for do I will go to the to the Masjid I want to visit the type of building about like uh uh Quran School Quran School mad about that like this like to look at the about the Quran School Quan school if you want to donate that possible in I will I will thank you like the building for the most about 40 million million they share like money from Arabian people like like and local people of course that's that's in our in our umah as a Muslim if we go to Muslim Community we have to help you know if we have the money we have to help anytime anytime I visit like I travel many different mid around the world I try to give something even if it's little bit because Allah is watching you know yeah that's it it's risk you know we just tell you about like because we have a lot of thing we got not too much from the government to pay us we have like uh by myself yes yes and and uh you have the people who who come visit they can also if you come to you can come visit support the economy but also help as well because uh these places like these smaller smaller Islands they don't get a lot of support from the government so they rely on the tourism yeah is is the is the main economy of this island still fishing that's normally like before but right now this 30 uh% half but for another like 60% like tourism ah okay okay so the main economy is the tourism economy from like fishing and tourism tourism but when the island start it was only fishing right fishing yeah I read on the history maybe like from java few people from Java Indonesia the original uh how much 90 90 B goip we immigrate from there you immigr like for so your family is is originally like from java Java muslim okay very nice oh thank you thank you brother like uh uh the coconut definitely syrup coconut coconut syrup oh B wow look at this good local this is local how do you how do you say this in In tha uh k k okay so here's that's the kindness of oh um the the kindness of Islamic communities if you come to a Muslim Community they always want to give you that's right that's right the kindness of Muslim people is like even if you're not Muslim you come here they will take care of you because in our in Islam it says if you have a guest you have to take care of them yes right most people here they are like in the position and then the original Muslim Muslim like you said keep first yes and then maybe people come to get that's how it is you know when you when you treat people with uh welcome and kindness they want to help you know I think we cheing about what a warm welcome better is W brother every Muslim Community I go to because I I travel I make YouTube videos and being Muslim I like to show the Muslim Community anytime I go to Muslim Community they treat me with so much respect so much welcome so much and try you ask them where where where where you want to go and to definitely the coffee from mat Ma so good this is real M the meaning like you just come from the sea from the sea yeah he told M did like uh the loc word the local it's a local word so in this island people mainly speak Thai right speak Tai sou of T but it's a like a dialect it's a special dialect only in K uh uh no in the south is similar like uh but little strong ah or sou sou language maybe some Tha people have difficult to understand maybe in Bangkok they come they have but normally we have the center language all in Thailand like uh Bangkok language okay and you work when you have in the government when you everything but when you in the local Island uh local play yeah you can to speak like a s ah you speak English really well usually in met youcb Club oh you're in the football club oh you have like this story Mei if you been there I I want to go there to try like uh for my my hisory about uh football can you tell me can you show me I want to hear your story also really yeah okay so you come show me I want to hear your story yeah inshah we go I'm with the mayor of kop and he like uh the chairman of the football club chairman of the football club so uh so we're going to go walk to the football field as you can see there you want me to talk to the football club uh to football pit for the football then you want to walk around easy because we have a walkway around it you have a walk 1,500 M oh okay like this like this everywhere okay and and when the how long did it take for them to build the island like this oh this many many like long time because when they build the house you look the house yeah yeah the house look very nice but difficult to to building because because it's on the water on the water and then when they took like a stone sand or like a crean or everything very difficult and hard work hard work like by long tail board from the mainland come down as you can see man like yeah I mean imagine building a whole village on these stilts like it can't be easy for it to come to what it is now must have been a lot of work as the man said wow look at this so this is the football floating a floating pitch yeah the floating pitch and you wrote a book about this you said and we happily that got everything and then you start for my story about you you started this club yes uh what year did you start the club um about 30 years ago years now my age about 59 Oh I thought you were 25 59 59 my son did the first one is 37 wow okay yeah you can come let's go so so was it always like this or you update also you fix update update like from the the the fishing Farm oh okay and then we put the wood in and after that we CH for different maybe they are donate okay maybe the uh like a foundation from England like come the comeon that's new yeah comeon 3,000 they come to shing here and then gave me and uh the first uh we do by myself from my friend from the team and then they come to see oh amazing after that they put the money they have a budget to me and then ch ch and now when we have problem after that did comeone 3,000 from England they give me good the good friend about cumball cball like a they do the cars so there's a famous group in uh from the UK they do the gumball car car rally and then sh can like the good player Oh Come and they donate you have your CH so they came and they helped out because they love the idea of of and and this must playing on football on this is very different though right because it's it's moving it's moving it's more difficult have thetion like so if you kick the ball then the ball gone now they have this now they have this net which stops the ball because we don't have this one the bo come too too much and they look like the P after that we have a problem the stadium like a frating the and after that we thinking and come on 2000 to keep now this very nice wow we have like a long it no long yeah yeah so is it is it is it difficult to play on this not I think we because we are like uh used have a lot like a pro you know like a experience experience yeah when we play on this uh like um uh fish one ah very nice so a lot of there's a kopan fc there's a team yes team the are the good team from like a small team like a footall footall because you don't have the big pitch you have like a like a normal land in the school oh okay that's the school yes that's the school okay so there's a school very nice brother amazing so what's the size of this land like to total size how many square right oh okay acre yeah okay okay okay so it's not big it's very small not not not I think uh now we have a lot of people grow up you know we would like to get land more from the government and they keep all national park said about like uh we keep only for 50 but we come early we come you guys are way before yeah like a 240 yeah yeah so you deserve more land but this is also like National Park here yeah water the national park all this is and they give me only this like like a cover well hopefully they'll give you more because you guys are the original people so and when they thought about it they said oh like from the r of the Thailand R they said about that if you make house or to build a new house they come to catch you oh that's a problem for problem okay yeah this all right so this is the mid uh this is a school oh this is a school schoon M schoon schoon for for Islamic oh it's a madasa yeahi okay okay okay so you can see guys that's a nice school oh really yeah football down here and then 50 cm now because a lot of people like the way we form 240 years you're thinking how many people di how many people yeah yeah and then now we make this is a cemetery and it's four floors yeah my my uncle my my dad my everybody's here buried here wow I think about 2000 so right next to the Masjid there's a cemetery because in Islam we don't burn we we have to bury yeah so they had to make a cemetery and they did it somehow here and there's four levels yes you can go down yes oh yeah 5050 and then maybe I thinking when they like this after that for 2 years yet it's full and then they start again oh then they start again okay what is this for like and who had like a dring already and they put it put it in here keep it so that way it doesn't blow away yeah yeah cuz sometimes when tourist come uh he said that the bottles get blown away so this is a way for them to prevent that amazing that's me oh that's you and my my knce and my nephew player oh he's a player oh very nice Alum and they sell different foods okay okay yeah we'll come stop here after prayer definitely oh and you have a post office also this uh licensed post office yeah office okay but today is close alayum mama I born here yeah oh this this your house yeah but now we CH to the other the new for me by myself yeah yeah but you were born here family amazing amazing so your whole family is here yes the business is here oh okay okay this is my friend shop ah very nice and he sell pearls different necklaces okay maybe I get one for my wife yeah have to do I can treat you that no problem okay and how about your family you have like the kid uh no kids yet only only wife how long you have family like uh uh uh only one year only one year the new one new so inshallah soon we will have you been to Saudi Arabia uh no I want to go soon I'm supposed to go this year how much do you charge for like this bracelet this bracelet this one if the real one then they have a real and then they from chair yeah yeah yeah I mean like CH like this they make like in the machine and they look nice the real one it's okay and this one the real one the real one is how much open the chop you said like 300 and what about this one 200 200 okay uh Lu today for us you said about like open alhamdulillah set yeah set I just want one bracelet for my for my wife like this one is very nice how how how how the the for her wrist yeah you can to she oh this adjustable no yeah to open just open to make wide to make wide okay this one you take card pay with the card know you know have like want to scan uh oh no no no I can pay with the cash no problem I just wanted to know if I see the card so I was asking yeah yeah yeah no problem I can pay with the cash oh they even have like a little mini Health Center so it's not like a big hospital it's just like for emergencies and you can see if there's any emergency this is where they're brought to amazing there's everything a post office and this is my my brother's house Salam alaykum he invited me look at this what a beautiful house he has Salam Alo wow mashallah you have a very nice house amazing and the babies oh this your babies H that NE uh your your grandkids oh wow amazing oh this is your book oh wow okay wow this is this is the book about the the floating field that he showed me so you can buy this can people buy this online they can yeah they can they can buy it in amazon.com Amazon oh okay so you can find this book on Amazon it's a it's a children's book right yeah for for kids and me my mom oh wow to so your personal story yeah yeah to C yeah maybe you can to thank you thank you so this your house Mah very nice how how when did you build this house uh this huh yeah what what what year oh uh I think about like uh five 15 years ago 15 years ago wow uh nearly like uh uh this5 2013 wow how long does it take to build a house like this here 2 years because it's very difficult right bring the material this a small house and then we have uh like my wife to work after that start little bit little bit little bit okay this for halan ald Halal money yeah amazing thank you brother thank you thank you so much I will take walk around and then yeah yeah can get it and forgive you for recommend people definitely I'm I'm going to leave the link on the in my video so people can go and and check this out on Amazon yeah originally from K yeah born here yes how old are you 53 mashah you look 25 thank you so 53 years on in kop you make me heart happy you make me happy you make me happy you look very young mashallah very young uh Mariam Mariam mashallah uh me how old you guess how old you think me 17 oh thank you thank you Cup on cup no Sam SI Sam no you no my 50 you my 33 I look young I feel so flattered they think I'm 20 thank you C on cop I wish I wish I was 20 you in Bangkok lip and p uh no I stay in Pang oh you stay yeah yeah yeah very nice this your shop yes ah very good okay thank you Mariam thank you you nice to meet you nice to meet you everybody's so nice here you one thing I've noticed is that even though obviously they don't really have like a proper uh sanitation system being that it's on the water they do a great job of maintaining uh cleanliness throughout the island like yeah you'll see a little bit of garbage trickle here and there but for the most part it's very clean even the water around like they've kept the garbage somehow the situation is uh they've maintained it very well for living on the water it's amazing to see like I said people come together here to cuz they really take pride in their Community you know it's a beautiful thing yo yo yo he what's up bro you want to say something to YouTube YouTube say hello YouTube I okay catch the chicken oh this your little bird baby baby bird me to okay okay it's time for Salat as you can hear in here we are back at this beautiful musjid here right here behind it you have these beautiful rock formations it is absolutely stunning guys and I'm going to go inside in a second and show you guys look how beautiful this is literally built off the hard work of these people and obviously you can donate here they have donation box which I'm going to do to help to help them you know keep it up maintain itum how are you brother yeah so by okay shopping okay so now I have worked up an appetite and I need to go eat something so I'm going to go to that place that uh the brother told me about that has good food look like a house and they're just cooking out of the house so we're going to go there and uh get some food cuz I I'm hungry s all right so this was that home restaurant that I was told to come too so I've come back you can seeum you can see the ladyes whipping up the food right here in her kitchen assalamu alikum what Ain so n n and right uh uh noodle noodle uh Seafood noodle Chim Chim yes okay one one okay you drink uh drink uh uh coffee uh soda soda soda yeah soda which flavor yours which uh flavor you have yours oh uh I'll take the Salah no not Salah uh green red a red red red yeah but one one restaurant okay so if you guys are here in kop you can come support my friend's restaurant we're going to try some homecooked food this this food is about as homecook this food can get literally right from their house here in K so should be good to try this out try this try the prawn so much flavor wow they use the thin noodles for this one you can see it's amazing hot amazing amazing so delicious so delicious it tastes like a real homecooked meal made with love here in kop thank youum all right guys so I think uh my time is done here been here for a few hours pretty much have seen everything that there is to see um and I got a nice tour from the mayor or one of the guys in politics he was able to really give me the true story of this place and what a wonderful place it is man um aside from the fact that obviously a lot of it is based around tourism but if you really get inside and talk to the people and kind of just explore for really you really get to see the true culture of this place and the community and uh the resilience of living on a water which is amazing but for now I'm going to head back to the pier and take a boat back to panga where I started this video but what a pleasure it's been guys I hope you guys enjoyed this video I'm going to leave some links in the description where you can support by this book as well and uh just kind of help out cuz this place works a lot off of community and if we can help our fellow brothers and sisters out why not that being said guys remember continue to learn continue to grow and there is no growth until you leave your comfort zone I'll see you guys on the next one look at this it's the pier amazing
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