On The Road Again! Entering Chumphon, Thailand’s Overlooked City
this video is brought to you by Squarespace good morning Rocket good morning I hope you slept well and got all the rest you need and think about what you did yesterday but we still love you we still love you let's see if it starts first let's wake him up all right rise and shine sounds good Rocket is ready oh Rocket Rocket what is this rocket has a surprise for me this morning let's see no problem there you go good as new so yesterday we left Koh Samui and we were on our way to Chumphon when Rocket decided to break down about an hour into our journey we spent 7 hours at the garage we were exhausted it was late so we stayed at a hotel which was only like which was like 8 minutes away from the garage cuz we were worried if anything happened at least we're close to the garage and those guys were really helpful but we're still like 3 hours away from Chumphon yeah today is the drive we hope that rocket is going to behave so we will take you with us on this journey and we will try to document as much as we can of the beautiful places we encounter but also the journey of us with Rocket exploring Thailand together road trip let's go rocket I'm slipping away and here we are welcome to Chumphon we are very close to our jungle villa only 20 minutes away but look at ahead of us look at that giant statue of um golden Buddha yeah let's stop that's the name of it oh yeah that's a long name look at that he's huge Rocket did a great job rocket is hot yeah that's pretty hot yeah let's air him out let him breathe while we go up and check out the Temple look at how big he is he's huge wow this is a nice find let's go see the front to see his face the Buddha itself is quite beautiful but the view that the Buddha is looking at is also incredible this is what Chumphon looks like it's a coconut plantation all of it here yeah because there's a lot of palm oil factories here yeah we drove past a lot of those oh all the way is the ocean you see it okay yeah yeah yeah yeah past all of that that's the coastline I think you can see Koh Samui and Koh Phangan from here maybe it's one of those what'd you get uh he gave me sugar cane want to try it yeah have you had have you had it like this before I'm not sure oi is sugarcane oh this is a lot you hold it this way and you eat this half and don't eat this joint this one is hard uh top half and use the bottom half to hold because the bottom is more dirty yeah or is it more like fibrous no it's just more dirty where are you guys from? From Koh Samui what about her where is she from she's from Hong Kong she's chinese yes but she can speak Thai only a little bit Chinese women are all beautiful how long have you been living in Koh Samui three years now is she beautiful yes very beautiful thank you I'm also handsome yes of course both are handsome and beautiful thank you very much here try it it's so sweet you have to to bite it off yeah and chew it nice right it's like chewing paper but the paper releases a lot of really really sweet juice and now what do you do with this spit it where in the yeah spit it in the garbage you got to spit it though hey you have to do like the the local Thai people huh chew it mhm okay spit it in the bin she's looking just spit in the bin she's looking it's hard to spit because you don't want to touch it you already chewed it it's full of your saliva so you want to just spit it out you missed it completely how can you shoot it like a far distance can you actually make it from there to the bin yeah but you don't need to you just go like this I don't know why you stand over here and try to I thought you have to like shoot it out can I have more they're so yummy cheers so friendly do you think this is considered countryside this is very countryside yeah countryside people are most friendly like that guy just suddenly offered hey you want sugar cane like sure oh I still have fiber in my mouth we are here can you believe it we made it we finally made made it and it's only 3 in the afternoon we have plenty of time to explore uh Chumphon after check in wow this looks beautiful all checked in got a local map with lots of restaurants that we can check out oh really it seems like nothing much around here mostly local restaurants oh okay that would be nice and drip coffee oh okay interesting yeah I also saw people riding bicycles yes they have bicycle and kayak for you if you want to use that kayak yeah and there's a section over there where they serve you free mini bar free fruit and toast from 7:30 to 10:30 and from 6:00 to 8:30 is mosquito time oh like we come out for the mosquito it's like cocktail hour yeah mosquito viewing time okay let's go check uh check out our room and go play oh [ __ ] what is it a a scorpion baby scorpion baby scorpion this is real nature It's a Jungle house alright real quick to start the new year we just wanted to say thank you to Squarespace for continuing to support our work on this channel whether you need a portfolio website an online store or a personal blog you can use Squarespace's award-winning templates to get started they have really simplified the design tools so it's easy for you to customize your website to suit your brand and if you need extra help you can access their detailed guides and videos in their help center just head over to squarespace.com for a free trial and when you're ready to launch go to squarespace.com/floraandnote to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain now let's get back to the video hey this is pretty nice let me give you a quick room tour of this room as I get to see it for the first time as well so we have a nice comfortable looks like a king size bed yeah oh softer than what I was imagining really nice and we have windows that have the um mosquito nets oh okay so we can open it at night which might be really nice how's the bathroom bathroom is very spacious we have the toilet shower hot water there is an upstairs though but I don't think it's a bedroom and I think it's more like a chilling place oh I guess you could fit another person up here oh yeah but there's only um a mat like a mattress but this looks pretty comfy well you can sleep here tonight it's really hot here I want to sleep downstairs where the AC is hitting do you remember how much we paid for this um I think it was 1100 Baht a night that's pretty good it's like 30 I think less than $40 a night well for us it's $85 no for us it's $80 I think cuz because we uh up didn't show up the first night but it's really nice so they left this over on the desk there it is a Thailand tourism copy of what is there to do in Chumphon so I was like looking through it and Chumphon is beautiful yeah there's so much beautiful coral and perfect for scuba divers I think it is definitely on our bucket list to go check out the Chumphon Pinnacle and all of that beautiful reef yeah when we were in Koh Tao a lot of people actually hop on the boat to go to The Chumphon Pinnacle look at whale sharks yeah whale sharks and there's like this incredibly Big Fish incredibly Big Fish I think it's a grouper that's so crazy welcome to the Nara of Thailand we are at the [ ] which translates to Deer-watching Bridge oh okay you can see some of them in the water already yeah they look more like reindeers [Laughter] yeah wow you hear that sound mhm he's like ooh you think it's a mating call yeah pretty much translates to "hey lady which one of you want to come over here and get jiggy with it" well none of the ladies are showing any interest they're just busy uh eating I didn't know they sound like that they sound like cows I thought they would sound cute I know right oh look you can buy bananas to feed the deer here oh and that's for fish but how do you feed the deer do you get yeah you throw it to them okay okay he said you don't have to peel them oh just give it to them whole but you need to peel it for me to eat these are the famous one yeah the lady's finger banana oh they smell really sweet see they look they skinny and long yeah like your fingers look my finger hardly looks like a lady I think the lady's looking at me like that's for the deer it's not for you it's really sweet it's um actually a really good banana I feel like do I want to give this all to the deer you want to try nice and firm sweet yeah that's delicious it's almost like condensed sweetness delicious mhm these deer are lucky the deer come all the way over to the bridge for you to feed them the ducks the ducks also want banana are you a comedian or what I was waiting for you it's a wrong deer that's a fake one was over there I'm so scared oh I dropped in the water because I got scared he didn't even get that one okay okay let's try again oh my God that looks so scary he's still trying to get it from the water hi you're so handsome wow look at you wo they're so beautiful with the antlers I should feed the ladies too okay I'm going to feed the ladies actually I'm supposed to go this way oh she got it good job what did you learn I learned only one thing because everything else is in Thai this this type of deer is called the Rusa Deer and I looked it up online they are deer that originated more in Indonesia and they live in the Southern Hemisphere and the ones with antlers are the males without antlers are the females and they are herbivores so they eat the grass the leaves um any fruit that they find uh of course all the bananas we all throw across the pond and they don't drink water what yeah they don't drink water even though they're surrounded by water but they don't drink water they consume all of their liquids through the food that they eat oh interesting so I think they must be really thirsty in the daytime they would hide in the shade and only come out in the evenings pretty cool Rusa deer dear oh look they spelled deer wrong that one is oh dear typical Thailand that bridge seems to be empty yeah I just asked the locals they said it's closed oh too dangerous for tourists to walk on it beautiful isn't it mhm that one's very beautiful this whole area is very beautiful especially during this time of day when the deer is out and it's not too hot mhm you get this constant Breeze coming in overall it's a beautiful Park I love it good morning from this beautiful m angrove right next to our hotel so we woke up early to get the kayak out because it is so beautiful yeah I love kayaking through the mangrove forest it's way better than kayaking on the beach for sure because it's so calm and peaceful and peaceful and you can see a lot of wildlife wait what wait don't go over there no they don't attack you you're scared I'm a bit nervous going to the side because literally minutes before I just saw this 2 m long monitor lizard swim across the mangrove and into this area so apparently they won't attack but it looks like a crocodile which is pretty scary but aside of the scary monitor lizard uh there's also a lot of beautiful like egrets and bluebirds um yeah it's uh pretty amazing I have to say I think this is a huge highlight of this hotel is the cute jungle villa but also this beautiful mangrove that you have access to with uh The kayaks that are free for rent um at the hotel hello welcome to Thailand thank you we are here at this place is called which "Kanomjeen Baan Khunya" which means Grandma's house it does look like Grandma's house it's pretty cute here are the vegetables if it's not enough you can have more thank you okay I think it's probably easy for you to tell what the curries are but I think I should I should test them and try to guess what they are this one quite obvious is the Thai fish organ sour soup I think this one is strong that's yummy oh really is it fishy it is fishy has a slight organ taste at the end but is not what I was expecting this one next this is probably sweet that is delicious sweet curry sauce this one fish curry now I think this might be the organ one it all tastes good good good that's really really delicious and do you know how much all of this cost is it like 60 each no no they only charge us for the noodles 40 40 and everything else is free all this is refillable that's what happens when we're in like Countryside Thailand everything's so cheap I feel like Chumphon has a lot of hidden gems mhm that's pretty amazing all of them are yummy I was a bit scared about two of them but it's all yummy and aside from these they also have crab curry sauce which is my favorite and I was thinking if I didn't like them I would get that but this is really good and rice salad which is a very Southern dish as well mhm wow but this is enough food for now this is plenty of food let's eat that's so funny you have an actual cup on the beach it's like a fragile cup too this is so nice who would have thought Chumphon has such beautiful beach and it's long and the sand is so soft this is really soft yeah Chumphon has 200 km worth of coastline so there are probably tons of amazing beaches here this is just one of them and it's so cool to see wind surfers out today it must be really hard to swim in this rough water today but that looks really fun I didn't know you can jump so high with that that's yeah that's crazy about 10 m mhm at least I have to be honest I wasn't especially excited for Chumphon I mean there are certain provinces in the north that I was really excited to go visit but Chumphon is like okay we're going to go by here we might as well stop and see what it's like but surprisingly I have been so amazed yeah I've been amazed with how friendly the people are how delicious the food is and there's so much untouched natural beauty in this province Chumphon has has been pretty amazing and definitely kind of a hidden gem in Southern Thailand we hope you enjoy Chumphon as much is we did thank you so much for watching and as always have a Wonderflo day we'll see you in the next one bye bye-bye rocket say bye [Beep Beep]
2024-01-11 06:28
