Ultimate THAILAND Motorbike Tour BEST DAY of the TRIP so far
hello and welcome back to the province of mae hong song in northern thailand i'm still based in the town of pai the well-known backpacking haunt however today because the weather's so beautiful i've come up for an afternoon drive on dreamy over there and we're just trying to make a little bit of a redemption because yesterday and in the previous video i paid quite a bit of money to go on a jungle trekking tour and i wanted to stay overnight in a tribe and i wanted to get like a real authentic northern thailand experience in fact i didn't feel that welcome and i had to sort of take myself out of that situation and i bailed and spent the night in pi a very normal and touristy town so we're going to go back out but instead of paying a lot of money basically we're gonna just do it free or on our own we've got dreamy we've got a day bag we might stay overnight we might not i don't really know what's going on it's late afternoon already i just thought look at it it's glorious let's go for a drive let's see if we can find a viewpoint a coffee shop a restaurant maybe somewhere to stay the weather turns bad we'll come back to pie and this will be a forgotten about day maybe but if you're watching this i think it meant that something cool happened so come and join us as me and dreamy go on the hunt for a real northern thailand experience where hopefully they're happy to see us and hopefully we can have a good time and um we don't break down okay let's go you know people will tell you motorcyclists and other travelers that the road from chiang mai to pai is one of the greatest roads and must-dos when you travel to thailand and so a lot of people will rent a motorcycle or a scooter and drive from chiang mai to pai however it's not the road that's not the road you want to do from pai mae hong song this is the road guys i've driven this road dozens of times this is the one with endless views incredible hairpins epic views of the mountains and some incredible hairpin turns just like this one don't get me wrong the road from chiang mai to pai is nice but it's nothing in comparison to this stretch of the road and so we're going to be driving this for about half an hour and then where i turned left with my guide yesterday to go trek towards his uh lahu and lisu mountain villages we're actually gonna do a right and head up towards the burmese border because according to google maps there are some cafes some viewpoints and even some guest houses up there i don't know what the state of play is after nine long hard months of restrictions and just endless covered stuff maybe these little coffee shops and things have gone out of business and the whole place is derelict even if it is we'll have a fantastic afternoon look at the weather look at these turns just around this bend is my favorite hairpin turn in the whole of the mae hong song loop arguably top five roads top five turns oh it's not this one okay it's a little bit further just around this corner is one of my top five turns in all of thailand you'll know you'll get towards it when you see the red tarmac they actually paint the tarmac red so people are alert to the danger of this turn it's very sharp and the view well the view's a little bit distracting isn't it holy moly i don't know if more accidents happen here because people are admiring the view or because the turn's quite sharp you know what we'll do because um you know we'll we're free like this on a little honda dream is um oops i'm in neutral there's not much traffic around so why don't we just chuck dreamy over here in the shade off the road and leaner up against this this wall she looks like a drunken chick on a saturday night down the tune and have a look at this shall we i've driven this turn and so many times and never actually stopped it take it in but look at that if you can see dead ahead there's two little humps and they look like they've got little nipples on them they look like little boobies with nipples on them that is the area we're going to be driving to so prepared get prepared for nipples look at the angle and the turn and the gradient there it's very aggressive wow proper nice okay dreamy none of your drunken antics were going to the nipples i look out across the water i smell the sun i feel the breeze tennessee is watertown okay welcome to the first village we took a ride off the main road the 1095 which is the mae hong song loop and this is the first coffee shop that i had on google maps and look at it it's splendidly closed which is a devastation i hope that doesn't become a thing the whole time is this one shot this one's sharp they're all shut guys all of these buildings on the right here are sharing an incredible view however everything is shut let's see what we can find up here dreamy let's do it these people live the most amazing life with the most amazing views but alas nothing is open i mean look at it look at these limestone cliffs here i think this must be one of the nipples absolutely devastated that this coffee shop was closed not only for the views but my tummy is so rumbling i'm so hungry oh no oh dear what's happened here the road has gone through absolute rubbish good luck paddy not scary wow the kids are playing in the street and everything's happy days but i don't have anywhere to have coffee i don't even want a coffee i just want to have a good time it's all shut is she just open oh no it's all closed up wow this coffee shop this noodle shop oh my god look we've got amazing noodles oh my god and then we would have been able to have coffee here and get noodles and then this is the uh there's the homestay i saw which was one of my op accommodation options that's shut and just look at this the smell of that guy welding is amazing such a beautiful view into that valley below and look you can see these lines of restaurants and things are all shut at the moment built on these stilts on this aggressive cliff edge down into the valley well there is another village seven clicks in the north direction towards the border of myanmar and maybe that will be open and you just see something that just blows your mind look at that look at that incredible just next to the base of that mountain there you can see the roofs of the village we were just that we've just been driving along this ridge it's been like cliffs on each side i've driven some roads well we've driven some roads i should say dreamy and i but whatever the number of this road is it's here below on the screen right now this road leading from somewhere along the mate hong kong loop north towards somewhere up there google map links below this road just follows the ridge of this mountain range and you know it's a drop to the left or drop to the right and as you go over you know i'm looking to the left i'm looking to the right and i'm just seeing incredible views on both directions it is to die for it's distracting because i just want to stop and scream but also just driving it is just a privilege and a pleasure and look at the weather it is incredible and there's like people on motorbikes and the odd car driving past as well we are having the time of our life this is this is one of the highlight roads top three of the trips so far and we've still got seven kilometers to get to this village picked a day for it as well even if we don't find coffee or tea or noodles or anything if we just get to this village we've had the well i've had and dreamweaver i hope you've enjoyed it we would have had one of the best afternoon drives of this day of this trip there's something about driving on a little motorbike in thailand on the mountain roads with these views just the best thing ever it's actually raining now but who cares hello little cows hello vivid rainbow should we go say hello holy moly oh the smell of the pine trees oh especially in this in this rain i once did a whiskey tasting and we smelled the whiskey and we were like it smells good and then he said add a drop of water into it and then we smelt it and wow what a difference the the moisture that the water elevated the smell and the aroma of the whiskey tenfold and that's exactly what happens to bark and wood and forests you go in a beautiful forest on a hot dry day and take a smell you can smell leaves you can smell the nature but just add a little bit of moisture oh my god the views add a little bit of moisture and boom you can smell the pine the bark the mud the worms the bird poop the ants the epicness the rain the rainbow's actually going down into the into the valley i wonder if there'll be a pot of gold or a pot of gold for paddy patio doyle paddy doyle in his pot of gold in thailand and his soccer potatoes oh i hope the camera's not got too wet let me just give it a cheeky little wipe oh look at this nice little hill i'm sorry this has turned into a moto vlog but i don't care because i hope you're enjoying this road just as much as i am up we go where's that pot of gold give me a little wipe oh my god the view on the left i mean you have to be careful because the views are so good up here you can you can have an accident you know oh i just wish there was a little spot where i could show you what i'm looking at on the left oh oh oh yes i can park you here we can climb up there and boom oh man there's lightning and stuff in the distance oh god i can see the rain going into into the valley okay here we go ah the smell this is if you could bottle this smell i would pay you a million dollars just to have it in the house and we'd call it wet wet thailand look at that sorry i shouted look at that and they're so spiky those hills they're not like rolling hills they're like pointy hills and and the sun is cascading beautifully and the rain is just falling you can't see on the gopro but you can see the rain droplets just floating down into the valley and that's where the rainbow was so where's the bloody potter gold where is it did this tree get hit by lightning is that why it's all black or was it just a fire maybe but anyway who cares look at this i think this is my favorite day of the trip guys then you see the you can see the ridge right you see where those trees are and the sun's just coming over that ridge that's the road that's the like the road we've been driving on up there and look at this listen that's the rain and oh man sorry there's like a storm up ahead i didn't bring my wet gear or anything like an idiot so let me think if we push up north we're gonna hit that rain and we're gonna get soaked what do we do what do we do if we go back we can get back before dark all the way back to pi if we keep going north yeah we're gonna hit that storm can you hear it it's it's um it's not sounding good and this late in the day doesn't look like it would pass before sunset i think our best bet guys is to abandon the north turn back once the way we came and just enjoy the road back to pie i'm sorry we didn't sort of find an epic camping spot or accommodation but the weather the weather is stopping play and um i'll tell you what i'll do because i'm a nice guy like that i'll make a montage with the small battery i have left on my gopro of all the epic views on the way home and i'll play you off i'll play you our favorite little song on this channel which you guys always ask me what it is it's called pandemonium by hannah stone so just enjoy the views on the way home and take my apologies for the lack of food and lack of a culture just road the day was just about roads look at this hill oh baby i love your madness it's so incredibly beautiful you shine like gold so selfless too old and while i can't anymore always hungry for more that's just how i was born take me somewhere i don't know give me your freedom yeah i is um give me your freedom is um life is so easy you love me too pieces yeah i need it i want your pandemonium
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