Tour of CHAI NAT I'll NEVER Forget What Happened Here! Thailand Motorbike Tour
hello welcome back i'm in the province of Chai Nat it's in central Thailand and in today's video i'm going to be touring all around this province it is full of surprises the reason why i'm whispering you'll see at the end of the video i've just climbed this mountain and there's a shrine and there's a monk in there and i'm gonna go meet him and this is really amazing experience and this province i thought this province was gonna be like nebraska in america just flat and farming and nothing but it's so good you're gonna really love this video so sit down and enjoy this tour of chia nat province let's go so good as new the thing that i like to do most when i get to a new town or a new province is try to get as high as possible get a viewpoint get a lay of the land unfortunately chiangnat just next to the town center is a hill and it has a temple on top i can see a gold temple hopefully we don't have to trek all the way up hopefully we can drive up there because we're lazy today aren't we dreaming so let's go up there let's see if it's um a good vantage point and we'll make a plan to explore this province when am i going to learn that you can't park a motorbike on a slant there's a crazy amount of butterflies here beautiful massive wasps and bugs that was stinging us to death i think we're here this place is completely deserted i've never actually seen a temple in this sort of disrepair and it being so new so let me explain so the one thing that you is kind of a constant in thailand is when you come to these temples that are you know relatively new you know this is definitely less than 50 years old there's always a few monks some staff people basically constantly living up here taking care of the place you always see them brushing the leaves cleaning and polishing the buddha statues and maintaining it and there's always donation boxes and that's how you know the staff are paid and how the monks are fed basically and um they maintain a beautiful tranquil spot up here on the hill and at some point this place must have been super tranquil and super beautiful you can see that they've set it up with gongs and bells for tourists and thai people to come up here and pray and make a wish and admire the view however everything is in disrepair including leaves everywhere and no one's brushing the leaves there's quite a bit of trash as well eerily there's lots of raisins raisins ravens that would be funny eerie raisins eerie ravens flying around and coring and making it all feel like resident evil vibe and the viewpoints itself i've walked around and i've basically figured out that the two or three parts that they've set up set up for the view um have overgrown with bushes trees and things and you can see that they haven't been maintained or trimmed back for quite a long time i think this place was abandoned for some reason maybe covered maybe not even the temple is closed and the doors are locked and there's iron gates and things you can't even go in and people look inside the temple and so that's the first for me to come to a relatively new built and newly built temple and to see it basically forgotten about luckily they didn't lock it you can still walk up here and drive up here so i flew the drone i i can get bits and pieces of the view but not 360 unfortunately and i can see that there's there's even more temples around and dotted on little hills there's a lot of rice paddy feels this is the basin of the chai praeyal river and so you know this is a really important area for growing rice sugar cane and many different crops and you can see it in every direction and i saw this driving yesterday when i drove all the way up from the south i just drove through farmlands and it was beautiful so maybe we'll go take a closer look at the rice paddies we'll go look for some more temples we'll just drive around and then in the evening the town itself is based on the the river um the river that goes to bangkok i should say i'm not sure how to pronounce it just yet and i did see a really big engineering project in the distance it looks like a huge dam so let's go check out the dam let's just explore and have some fun in this um hopefully not completely deserted province right at the base of the mountain or the hill i should say with that temple is another beautiful buddha statue as you can see here and um it's funny isn't it because literally this is 500 meters away from the the roads to get up to the hill temple and um you know there's guys behind me here working on it there's loads of bricks and mortar here it looks like they're you know building a brand new temple structure so i'm not going to go up there because i think it's a bit of a building site but the buddha itself i have to say the buddha is beautiful it's a really nice image of the buddha really well you structured and sometimes you see these like stretches of butter and they're a little bit wonky and the nose looks a bit weird a bit of a michael jackson vibe going but this one is perfect i think it looks very nice and then you've got the seven-headed serpent on each side of the staircase which is actually i learned this recently that's a symbol from hinduism like most of buddhism comes from hinduism and india obviously but the thai sect of buddhism adopted it into their own folk tales and so he kind of stands guard um you see it in almost every temple but this one's particularly beautiful huge like cobra fan coming out with these seven heads and the kings on king crowns on top and um you can see the guys working there doing the welding so i'm not gonna disturb them but um it's funny that they're building this when really they should go up there and you know fix the old one lovely lovely temple or not quite finished yet but it will be lovely right then let's go find this damn holy crap sorry for my language this is one of the coolest things i've ever seen if you know me then you know i'm absolutely mad for huge engineering projects anything that is just you know just on par with nature but man-made i'm in love with listen to that whoa look at the water that is incredible that is unbelievable so basically what's going on what i can figure out is this is thailand's first real dam look at this oh but this is the char payout river guys this is the river that goes all the way to bangkok and this is unbelievable there are these huge orange doors underneath the bridge which are pushing back the water and holding back all this vegeta vegetation they even have diggers and machinery in the distance scooping up all that vegetation all that plant life that's built up and grown here maybe during the rainy season and now it's time to clear it and they're letting the water through in a way of controlling the supply to the rice fields and the valleys below and into bangkok down river wow i'm not sure if this is a hydro power or not i think this might just be a control mechanism to keep the floodplains from flooding but wow what an amazing dam what an amazing dam look at it wow i stumbled into a japanese restaurant i was just driving back from the dam country road alongside the river nobody around whatsoever and i just saw like a trendy looking place on the side so i parked up and when i walked in there's like 30 women working here in the kitchen waiting stuff they're having a pre you know service meeting and then you know the tables and chairs are outside you have an indoor area as well but it's right on the river and you can see all of that vegetation that's blocked up at the dam drifting down the river and um i was the only person here but it's just gone 11 o'clock and there's already six tables so i think they're about to get slammed because it's sunday yeah it's sunday isn't it so busy service and it's really good food i mean i mean look i've got this um nice spread here and i've got some what's the name of this in japanese i can't remember but it's basically like you know smoked mackerel um really fishy smoky fish on some rice and then some salmon sushi rolls and some nice pickled ginger and some sides this is like proper fancy but let me try i wasn't expecting this you know in the middle of the countryside because when you're driving around in this area you know it's not like you're driving around a fancy part of bangkok or chiang mai this is not an iman this is the countryside they just put some nice tunes on it's fantastic absolutely fantastic and then i love this in japanese restaurants the pickled ginger oh my god to die for i've got a feeling that these central provinces the the lowlands the valleys with the rice fields are going to be full of surprises even though i was expecting them to be kind of kind of flat welcome to what tamar that's a hard one they need to come up with some creative names you know like we'll call this one staircase temple it's late afternoon and i thought you know let's go get our workout for the day we're not gonna go for a run we're gonna walk up 500 steps white steps up a steep incline hmm it's beautiful here right so let's go up and um get our workout for the day and hopefully beautiful view at the top now the only thing i am confused about is do i go this way where there's nobody or do is do i have to go to the left maybe we have to go to the left everything is in thai by the way every single person i talk to in this province does not speak a word of english they just talk at me in thai and i say okay okay it's not that way it's this way so the trick is to not look at the view save it till the top oh that's what i saw so i saw these like huts wooden huts they're little rest points so look there's already a rest after like 50 steps some people are lazy i need a rest we're talking about nan i've got 20 more sections to go you go on without me and carry me with you let's go i just had a look at that time-lapse shot on the gopro four minutes and six seconds and i started it at like the second phase so not far into it that wasn't that bad 500 steps probably takes you five minutes if you just go nonstop but that's not the top and we're now in kind of like a jungle forest stage nice you know nature trail and they have all of these um what do you i don't even know what they're called but i saw these at moonstone people lay them for good luck actually i don't know why they lay them is it just for fun or is it a ghost so anyway quite pleasant and we'll just hope this doesn't go on for two hours and it's not too far away actually i don't mind i'd love a two-hour trek right now oh my god hey guys welcome to my jungle trek vlog i'm just in the jungle trekking it's super wilderness super alone super scary super mind blowing you know been on the bike all day and then nipped home for a couple of hours i never really filmed during the day it's one thing i learned on the first part of this trip is don't film all day film in the morning when it's not hot come back during the hottest part of the day chill out and then go back out in the afternoon saves me from like burning out oh my gosh guys welcome to the jungle i'm just doing a jungle trek it's so green af spiritual af i'm just having the best time you should totally follow me anyway let's just enjoy this okay i'm just whispering because i made it to the top and basically i thought that'd be like you know a temple but there is but it's more like a shrine anyway it's made of bricks it's tiny it looks like um looks like a shed somebody's garden shed but there's a monk inside and he's chanting and he's facing the statue and he's on the ground you probably can't hear him because there's loads of noisy birds up here like parrots and things like that i don't know like white heads and blue bodies anyway i think he lives up here because like that's his bed and he's got solar panels so maybe he has electricity and you know i don't know the significance maybe you go in and you ask him for a number and you pray and he'll give you a lucky number and then you go downstairs i don't know um what do i do because he's chanting i don't want to go in and disturb him i'm just going to wait a little bit and see what happens i'm going to put my face mask on in case he's worried that i've got covered and then i don't know this is a unique experience it's just in there super cool just leaving now i actually had about a five minute chat with him he was really nice i could see that he wanted to get on with his chanting and praying but um he was really polite he speaks really good english and so he told me that that temple was built 1400 years ago and he doesn't live up here i asked him if he lives up here he says he goes down every night and he comes up every morning and that area that we saw is where he sleeps in sort of like december january time when there's no rain and it's nice and cool and it's better than having uh aircon apparently and um so he sleeps up here and um takes care of the place and uh yeah so that you don't get a lucky number from him he says that's to do with downstairs so i don't know anything about that so i thought i thought it'd be really cool if he gave me a number like your lucky number is four and i'd be like oh but no um i did start to get eaten alive by mosquitoes so we had a quick chat and then he was like i'm gonna get back to my thing and i was like i'm gonna get back to my thing see you later and he was really nice because i said i'm sorry i don't have trousers on because you're supposed to be covered up when you go inside a temple um i wasn't going to go into the temple if there was a temple up here but he he wanted me to take a look he's like come in have a look and i said are you sure he was fine about it and i was okay fine if the monk tells you it's fine it's gotta be fine right um what an amazing experience to have a chat with a monk in a shrine on top of a mountain in the middle of central thailand he spoke english and um he asked me about my camera he said do you do youtube and i said yes and he said um you know is that your job and i said yes and he said splendid. so it was very funny word to choose splendid so uh yeah i'm just gonna enjoy the sunset here i'm just at one of those uh rest spots with the bell on the way down but it's quite so high up it's incredible view and there's no point me rushing back to town i might as well just stay up here feel the breeze watch this incredible sunset i'll leave you with a beautiful time lapse i'm just filming it here with my little gopro and um in the distance in the very very far distance this is how good the visibility this time of year is i've just used my phone and you know that blue thingy that comes up and biting me oh that one stings after okay so that was probably poison great brilliant um you know when you use the phone and you see which direction your phone's facing so i faced it towards those mountains and those are the mountains of utaitani and that is tomorrow's province i will be waking up early and we'll be going there so the next video is that province and um it's all the way over there it's going to take a couple of hours it's 130 kilometers to those mountains and yet they just look down the road because the visibility and this light is just so perfect this time of year what is it september it's coming towards the end of the rains um all of the fields are lush green and the rice and the sugarcane are growing in this luscious sunlight as well but soon come november it will be dry won't rain and they'll harvest in november december and then january february it starts to get a little bit smoky and really really hot so this is the perfect time of year to be in central thailand so there's no need to rush through and get to chiang mai let's take our time i've decided just to slow things down there is 11 provinces between here and chiang mai and i haven't had the email or the text message yet because i need to go to chiang mai for a vaccine but i'm still sort of not really it's not my time yet but i'm hoping it will be soon so instead of just going all the way to chiang mai quickly and then realizing i have to wait a couple of weeks let's just do these problems is now we're in the area we're in central thailand there's 11 provinces to do so let's do them if they're as good as chiangnat then we're in for a great great great time thanks for watching see you in the next adventure you
2021-09-19 09:12
