Emotional Reunion With My Mom In Bangkok Thailand
today is a very exciting day for me because my family is about to arrive here in Bangkok Thailand and then for the next weeks we are going to spend some time together here and yeah I can currently see their flight here on the screen they are about to arrive scheduled Landing is in 17 minutes and yeah it's not only their first time in Thailand it's going to be their first time in Asia in general so I am very excited for them let's head to the airport and pick them up ah I don't know I'm going to the airport but actually I'm going to arrivals not departures but I couldn't choose arrivals on grab it's only the only options were departures thank you very much okay have a good day bye all right so he dropped me off at the departure section actually so I need to go down to the uh arrival section okay so yeah this is the departure Hall so I guess arrival is just down here and yeah who is coming my mom is coming my auntie my uncle and a friend of my mom and yeah I haven't seen my family in almost a year so I'm really looking forward to see them and yeah in case you don't know I lived one and a half years of my life here in Thailand I also spent well over six months living in Bangkok so I think I will be a good tour guide for them in the next weeks to be honest it feels a bit weird for me for once I am the person that picks somebody up at the airport usually because I travel so much I am the person that gets picked up at the airport looks actually quite busy here today lots of arrivals these days here in Thailand however they just texted me that they are at exit number 10 I was waiting in exit number four um so we have four five so I think I just need to uh walk down there and I see my family hello hi hi right now ah there's my mom oh it's a shot okay the first things he said it's very hot here um air conditioned okay successfully pick up all the Travelers I feel a little bit like a tour guide now and yeah we are just automated grab Taxi somebody got three cup that's you rich yeah yeah okay number car number car yeah yes okay okay so slowly and Indian yeah you baby traveling with five persons okay first time first impressions of Bangkok now for you what warm times what actually I'm a little bit jealous because I will remember my first time arriving in Bangkok my first time arriving in Thailand and the first time arriving here was wow I wish I could revive here for the first time again as well I think we all if you're watching this and you have been to Thailand or Bangkok before I think you you know what I'm talking about arriving here for the first time is very exciting so I'm a bit jealous of you you are here for the first time now okay I was about 50 minutes later we have arrived yeah I'm bringing my family to my uh to my favorite hotel in Bangkok the hotel where I always stay when I am in Bangkok I will uh let us check in and then I will show you the hotel a little [ __ ] I think by the way check out the T-shirt of my uncle he's wearing the kind of broad merchandise t-shirt perfect advertisement now supporting the family yeah okay okay let's check in all right let me show you the hotel really quick uh I am having this room we are basically having three times the exact same room so this is the room type Studio here in the ISA Nook hotel and yes I said before I always stay in this hotel when I'm back in Bangkok I really like a big spacious rooms there's a little balcony here as well a nice desk to get some work done and I'm paying around it's around 45 US dollar per room here also a little less heating area here which is really nice you have the sink here you have the bathroom and the little kitchen corner right here there's also really nice outdoor area here a proper pool for swimming which I really like also the location here is quite nice quite Central in Bangkok so this is my go-to hotel whenever I am back in Bangkok usually and yeah before we are heading out to explore Bangkok now one quick word about internet security I am 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okay okay we have arrived at batnam which is the biggest or the tallest Buddha statue in all of Bangkok and it looks uh quite impressive and what I like about this Temple is that it's not it's not a super touristy place like the Grand Palace or the what four which we are going to visit later as well but I thought first of all I'm going to bring them to a yeah more local place more of a Hidden Gem a little bit it's also inside a very local neighborhood here and if I have a look around I don't see any other foreigners here and if you follow my channel for a while you know these places are the places that I really like to visit and of course also to uh to show my family impressive impressive it's the first time that you are visiting a Buddhist temple first time seeing a Buddha statue like this and the good news is you don't really have jet lag right no yeah it's a lie that doesn't exist well I think my uncle disagrees you were didn't slap that well right kanguta's love no no no so we are mixed here some people really feel the jet lag and somehow okay yeah like okay let me look at 50 50. two persons okay two persons oh but I think in a few days it will be okay it's just the first usually the first two or three days and after that it should be all right and now we are going to enter this building right here and we can actually go to the top to have a beautiful view but yeah we have to remove the shoes here and we are here on top we can see the big Buddha from the back and wow this is really massive right it's incredible huge I I'm sure it doesn't even look that huge on camera but if you're standing here wow this is so massive and yeah you can have a view over to the Bangkok City Center basically in the distance over there all these skyscrapers always nice to see a big City View like this at least for me somebody who really uh likes big cities like Bangkok and there's a nice wind blowing here yeah yeah so it's getting hot now it's uh the hottest time of the day noon a little bit afternoon and the sun is shining this is their first time in Southeast Asia so they are not as used to the heat as Iron by now but how's the temperature now how's the temperature here now right yeah well that's super like best about this place is the ceiling inside that room that we just saw with the green and the sparkle it's really really beautiful and I love the feeling of the model oh yeah walking around here with no shoes yeah yeah all right the next stop is uh lunch and here the problem is when you are five persons the taxis only have four seats so I just placed my family into a taxi and I'm taking a motorbike Taxi by myself but it's just a five minute ride I'm going to take them to a local food market their first time on a Thai food markets okay okay thank you very much bye all right that was a quick ride and I see my family already over there everything worked that's something yet okay we have arrived at a very local food market where you can find everything that you are craving in Thailand and yeah by the way I will leave the Google Maps location to the places that we are visiting today in the description and yeah welcome to your first proper Thai food market it's a huge Hall here maybe we can have a walk around first so you can get impressions what is is on the menus here then we can decide what we want to order yeah I used to come to this Market many times when I was studying here in Bangkok my university is nearby we are at the BTS station Bangla in case you're wondering where we are oh I really love being on these Thai Food Markets all these smelts here if you have been to one of these markets here in Thailand you probably know what I'm talking about it just smells like Thailand here oh this fruit you don't know what it is yeah it looks nice this is one of my favorite fruits here it's a dragon fruit yeah it looks uh right in the inside yeah yeah okay very delicious very delicious fruit very pretty oh you should uh I will make you try it in the next days I feel so excited for you because everything is new for you you see fruits that you've never seen before yeah oh I wish I was here for the first time as well again it's so exciting okay I feel like uh they are all a little bit overwhelmed here with all the choices and Impressions overwhelmed with all the options here okay maybe that's a good option that I'm just going to get some samples trust him yeah trust me yeah maybe you just want to get to a table all right the men are in charge now to get food so let me just sample some things get some things and then we're gonna try all of that I would like this one yes that's it inside the sausage inside spicy okay okay so we have like a Thai style pancake here they are usually quite good somehow sweet and some are non-sweet sorry which one is sweet maybe a sausage too true with sausage okay okay one two three four five six seven uh it's 10 bar per piece for the 17 photo I think my mom wanted to have a fresh coconut so maybe we can get a coconut from my mom so we're going to order easy dishes today so not overwhelming them simple dishes and then let's see in the next weeks we can go more exotic you know Ma yeah okay [Music] two two yeah yeah my mom wanted to have a coconut and drink with a straw out of the Coconuts she never did that before in her life so foreign coconut right yeah they probably not you can buy in a supermarket in Germany is really brown but this is weird coconut fresh and they are usually very very refreshing especially when it's hot like today good right really I think it's Rose flavor that's crazy give it a try with this kind of lemon flour with flour yeah so like a lemon Rosie flavor I think yeah okay it's okay it's okay I like it yeah okay that's all I do not know yeah just a little bit okay rice noodle type around it and then it filled with some vegetables and there's a sausage inside as well some carrots it's like a It's A light meal it's light easy light and easy to use it is really really good what do we have inside here I have no idea sweet it's really nice yeah I'm also not sure maybe maybe peanuts inside crisp plus size yeah maybe peanuts and I'm also not sure what is inside here very good how was your first time at the Thai market yes yeah but this is I think yeah I enjoy that yeah this is another truth there we are we are the only uh we have some people around here and these are the places I like to to show them as well but actually the next stop is going to be a touristic stop so we're going to a tourist area now but yeah local markets like this are always interesting if you're coming to Thailand definitely check out these local markets especially if you're in an area we are not all the tourists are going through people here very kind friendly sometimes so you will struggle with communicating in English but hey that's part of the experience right and there's always a way to communicate your way around and just uh yeah feeling the atmosphere here it's just amazing yeah this is what the main road looks like here that's the most busiest part of Bangkok and yeah we're heading back to the to the MRT station now and then taking the MRT over to uh to the tourist area of Bangkok okay crossing a busy road in Bangkok first time for them crossing a busy road in Bangkok oh that's gonna be a challenge now okay just follow my lead the the key is just to move and then the cars will stop that's how it usually works in these Asian countries wasn't that difficult heart attacking first time crossing a street in Bangkok okay this by the way used to be my University CM University the tall building over there I didn't exchange semester here in 2019 in case you don't know my story that's how I ended up here in Saudi Asia during that semester I fell in love with Southeast Asia and uh yeah the plan was I came here in 2019 the plan was to just stay here for half a year then we turned to Germany and now three years later and I'm Still Here and Now I bring my family over here I show my family around into the air-conditioned room that's why it's always so nice to take the BTS because you have air conditioning yeah after walking in the walking around in the heat for a while always nice to spend some time in here so I'm outside next station [Music] all right in case you are familiar with Bangkok we are now near the Grand Palace Watford uh super Tuesday oh yeah let's see how long it takes until the first tuk-tuk driver approaches us what Paul no Grand Palace get oil get party at 3pm it's a typical Bangkok uh game this game works I guess he tells you the palace is closed but he can bring you to another place okay for free or for a very low price and then he's going to make stops at some tailor shops where they want to sell you something something like that but yeah be aware though that the Grand Palace does actually close quite early at 3 30 already but yeah be also aware of this well-known scam in Bangkok the Grand Palace is definitely a must visit it used to be the official residence of the kings of cyan after its construction in 1782. today it's not being used as an official residence anymore but it's still being used for official events of the royal family alright the plan is now to get a tuk-tuk actually I know that's the biggest truest thing you can do in Bangkok no local takes a tuk-tuk but they are curious to uh to try out a talk to bride and of course if you're in Bangkok for the first time you somehow have to try out a truck right right but let's see we actually only want to go for like five minutes so I'm not sure if the truck talks actually will agree to take such a short ride we want to go to uh this restaurant the deck the deck okay yeah how many people five people five people or two cars one car one car okay one car yeah [Music] 150 bucks 150 yes only five minutes ah okay okay the girls sitting in the back and we go somewhere okay okay are you ready we are ready no you can't fall out here it's just a five minute ride um okay okay let me pay the man you have 100. thank you okay thank you very much so all of a sudden I nearly lost my back but it was great fun so you said you wanted to do it again okay maybe we can do another tuk-tuk wipe otherwise we came to a beautiful little bar here overlooking the Chao Priya River the Arun Temple over there and we have beautiful sunset weather of the day so in about one and a half hours we will hopefully see a beautiful sunset here that was well that is the idea actually [Music] so my mom has a sunblocker now block the sun we're having some drinks here overlooking this beautiful view here yeah this bar which is called the deck is a wonderful place to watch the sunset I recommend to come here one or two hours before sunset time because yeah it does get quite busy around 6 p.m and if you don't arrive early you will not be able to get a table anymore and yeah we were super lucky that this guy also looked very amazing after the sun had set and then when the lights of the red Arun Temple get turned on you have this beautiful view right here okay this is the night view here overlooking the the river the vat Arun Temple over there in the background all right after spending a few hours up there on the rooftop with an amazing Sunset amazing view over the temple we are having dinner here now but it's not really that tight now it's more like westernized Western Fusion Foods so we're having a different uh yeah dishes here more Western food but you actually have uh I begin you have Thai curry yes so you're having a property how's the spicy level it's absolutely okay only one team yeah not too spicy I'm very happy that my family is here they are going to stay here for around two weeks so the next videos will be all about us exploring Bangkok we're also going to an island soon I'm happy that you are here yeah I'm happy as well okay stay healthy stay positive and then see you on the next episode
2023-02-08 23:50
