Settling into Life in Koh Samui Thailand Island Living We Left Bangkok
last time on delightful travelers we were exploring different neighborhoods in Bangkok attempting to figure out where and if we could live in the city in this video we're slowing things down and trying Thai Island living once again we made our way down to Koh Samui to see what the hype is all about I'm Trevor and this is Anna welcome to the final video in our Thailand series make sure to hit subscribe and click the like button so you don't miss a single video a huge thanks to our channel members and patrons for making these videos possible this is koh samui well we've decided to leave the big city of Bangkok and we're back down here in the south of Thailand this time we're trying out the island of Ko Samui as you guys might recall we were recently in Phuket and Facebook didn't go quite as well we definitely enjoyed it but they didn't go totally according to what we hoped for what we planned on we're trying it again so specifically we are in the town of lamai we've actually been here quite a while now we just haven't really filmed that much been getting into Island life just taking it easy well doing a lot of work but not doing too much and just you know settling in so today this video is going to be kind of like what our life is like here what we do from day to day well we're starting things out right on the beach today and I think you can see why this place is absolutely beautiful and speaking of beautiful we promise we won't talk about the weather too much but the weather here has been stunning that's the only time if you're wondering what type of year it is it is February as we film this and the weather has been really really good beef is beautiful like long it's sort of walkable easiest is sand to walk in but it's definitely a long walkable Beach and that's been it's a little bit wavy it's used to come and go but it's not we haven't seen it completely calm but we did notice like the top part of the island yeah the water seems a little bit calmer if that's something that you're interested in yeah this town though is checked every single box with what we were after so we're actually out on our daily walk today just trying to get some exercise it's one of the things we love about this town it's like this perfect Loop we have a nice Beach to walk on you're gonna see the town soon can't wait to show you guys some great food as well now if you guys are new a little bit of a back story we've been in Thailand now for three months we had to split it up we had to go to Vietnam in the middle because the Visas now we're back we just clearly couldn't get enough of it so if you are new it's Trevor that's Anna we're the delightful Travelers hit the like button that just helps us out also for everyone that's not new and the ones that are new if you want to see where we are in real time Instagram's the place you want to go huh yeah watch our stories on there as you probably know YouTube you can get a little bit behind so in a few weeks just because so much work I've been creating a video and then you eventually end up behind but Instagram we try to post stories a couple times a week and you really keep you updated on where we are here's the thing right now if you're following us on Instagram you'd already know what country we're in next and we can't wait to tell you guys so there's only going to be one video from here in Koh Samui which is not usual for us at all we've been taking a bit of a break don't worry for you guys it's it's going to be completely normal there'll be one at least one video uh every single week but for us it's been nice to take a break I say take a break we've actually been busy with work we have been but first uh one of the reasons we decided to take a break I think we already sort of alluded to this but our next destination I think we're going to be filming so much like we're probably gonna be filming like five videos per week or something like that really super busy films it's a big one huh we'll give you 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thing is another tier on there we're going to be releasing bonus videos every month about we're calling it at the moment like an honest wrap-up of each Place Not that we're ever not honest but it's going to be raw uncut now I just want to say there's probably people watching that think your members you might be subscribed there's like an additional thing you can do to support us if you want to but you don't have to you can become a patreon for a certain fee a month I think it starts at a dollar so it's like buying us a coffee if you enjoyed our content but of course this will always be free this will always be free we just want to get that point across but for the ones that go the extra step you're going to get some exclusive content now well Town's just over this way and we're gonna take you guys to it can we just point out how funny it is that there's a Christmas tree still up Merry Christmas you guys it is I swear to you you this is February towards the end of February as we're filming this though and they light that up at night so it's also pretty cool that there's a little river over here we should go check that out look at this how cool is that yeah I like this place a lot you got the beach there pretty the River City goes right into the ocean but not quite almost done we heard so much about this island before we got here so we were extra excited to visit now you might be wondering where exactly is Coke Samui it's in the south of Thailand it's very close to Phuket in a way so close to where we were before in this place this little town where we're in lamai specifically has everything that you're going to need really there's traditional shops you can of course get your massages if you want to do that there's even a McDonald's there's a gym so yeah pretty much everything so far so good but it's not exactly our buy business it isn't I mean no complaints because it literally has everything we could possibly need yeah but the vibe probably isn't exactly not exactly it's a really difficult thing to explain to people like what we mean by Vibe well not every place can be perfect we like it here but I don't know if we come back and book another month but so far so good here just the vibe could be a little more upper alley but hey that's gonna happen as we go around the world trying to figure out why we're doing it yeah we're trying to figure out places to live would this be one maybe we need to improve on a few things it's funny we both kind of agree that of the places that we've been so far in Thailand which we spent a significant amount of time in Phuket here and in Bangkok Bangkok for sure is a place that we would love to go back to and spend a significant amount of time and like live there for months at a time yeah it's easily been one of our favorite spots and who knew a big city out of all the locations so far that being said we didn't off into the north yet and I know a lot of you guys are going to tell us we have we know we have to go there we'll get there eventually it's on the list and yeah Chiang Mai hi don't worry Chiang Rai we're coming for you at some point at some point okay well into the uh local market we go we just love that these are here look at this this is like just a random weekday yeah and there's lots of something around lamai there's like a night market there's a few different like local markets that happen during the daytime this one has a lot of food that you can buy to eat lunch or eat dinner but they also have local products which is why we're here because we are gonna I think I just said we're gonna go eat lunch in a second but I want to get some stuff for dinner in the meantime this is definitely something we've really enjoyed about Thailand we've been just coming buying local produce trying to support the locals if you're wondering there is an actual big like think of like a Superstore or a sobies if you're from Canada or like a massive people a massively Costco by our local produce yeah and uh what are we looking for here I'm not sure they have pretty much everything you need bathroom cilantro one of my favorites oh it smells so good luckily it's pretty easy to get cilantro here oh yeah they put it I think in pretty much everything or coriander as some people might refer to it well we found most of what uh what we're looking for there I just love that place too I love local markets we got some cilantro green onion a bunch of little Tomatoes we paid 30 Baht which is what like a dollar I think it's about a dollar uh U.S for all of that so that's pretty good but uh here's the problem being in there I can smell food and now uh I'm hungry we found a place to eat a little local spot with I think some Chinese style noodles one thing I love about this town is they're an abundance of different types of food from all over the world of course including Amazing Thai food but you also can get yummy noodles like this look at that yeah oh that looks good so in this we have some broth and there is a choice to get it with soup or without there is some crispy pork which I think might be a type of pork belly and noodles of course some yummy yummy noodles and there's some greens in there I don't know if that's celery or something else but it's got everything all right let's give it a try that's a good sign yeah that pork is absolutely delicious there's like some pork skin I think along the edge so it's a little bit crispy sometimes I find pork belly can be a little bit fatty but this is just perfect it's not too chewy it falls apart in your mouth try a little bit more at the noodles I think the noodles are like a kind of like egg noodle or Ramen style noodle kind of those curly noodles they're great I added a little bit of spiciness into the broth the thing I love about getting broth in general in the side of the world is it usually comes pretty basic and then they give you all this stuff on the side that'll come on your table that you can add in to add the flavor to it I think what we're gonna miss the most about Thailand is the amazing food yes I know this is more like a Chinese style dish we're eating Thai food pretty much every single day you guys but I would say that's the one thing that I just wish we could take around the world with this Thai food everywhere we go because you can't beat it when you're in the country now even though this is our last video here in Thailand we will make short of eating Thai food the rest of our stay here which is really only a few more days we're gonna eat Thai food every day well it actually just rained and that was the first time that happened in a while this Road's pretty dry but I got to show you the back of Anna's legs here look at this this is from flip-flop walking luckily it's right back to Sun though so we're all good here but you might be able to tell it's it's quiet the minute you get off the main road I mean we just would have 30 seconds off the main road yeah and we're staying down this road it's really it is legitimately quite quiet yeah we'll show you guys we're going to be taking you back to give you a tour of where we're staying because I think you're really gonna like it it's uh it's quite the spot in a great location but first we're gonna stop somewhere else before that because we want a little bit of caffeine so this is literally the cutest little coffee shop that you were going to find in alumni we will put a link to their Google listing below so you can come find it it's a little bit off the main beaten path but they also have the best coffee that we found so far here look how adorable this little coffee shop is the lady that runs it is the nicest ever we got our iced coffee I'll try it if you're wondering when all that commotion is in the background we asked the lady we always wondered we didn't know what this was back there it's actually uh men Thai men watching chicken fighting on satellite television that's something I never would have thought that in fact she told us one customer thought it was like an international school back there or something like that so no just some dudes watching chicken fighting what you do in Thailand this thing is incredible best coffee hands down in lamai dare I say close to me but we didn't try them all but if you're coming to this place lamai specifically come here and support this bill it is amazing plus she got a cool logo well here we are we're going to show you where we're staying this place is called Zeba home suites and uh yeah we're pretty big fans of this place huh yeah something really important for us when we are picking a place that we're gonna stay for a long period of time even a short period of time having a pool I know we are in a Beach town so you don't necessarily need a pool but for our lifestyle and the way our days kind of work it really really helps to be able to pop out spend some time at the pool go back in yeah it's pretty quiet here as well you can kind of see there's a couple of kids down there we love it it suits our lifestyle like you said we try to sneak out here at least once a day briefly when we get work yeah we get like an hour maybe two if you're lucky and come I will come out and say and read a book for a little while and then pop back in do some work you know try to get out here when you can and how cute is this place all right time for a quick tour of our place as soon as you walk in here you're going to see the TV we've actually been watching shows again we're stoked about that we'll fill you in a little more later there is a giant couch which I think acts as like a second bed and you might be able to tell like this room is very very big back here we have a a table or a desk now this is an outdoor table they're supposed to be getting a desk for us we just asked if they could we could use something it didn't matter what it was just because we work online a lot so they came through there and then voila you'll see the kitchen as well so we're all set up we have a fridge nice sink and then there's also a two burner cooktop so that means we can actually do some cooking and then follow me this way so it's kind of a one bedroom but it's like a studio there's this big arch you can see beautiful looking bed here there's AC as well and then some storage areas I will take you into the bathroom always the hardest part to film in any place you've got toilet area over here a pedestal sink on this side and then you have basically like an open kind of walk-in shower on that side they can see me for sure hi guys you're gonna see me in the mirror but yeah here's here's the shower so it does the trick no curtain or anything but that's just how it is another thing I want to show you guys is the speed of the internet here very very happy with this we actually asked the host to do a speed test before we got here and you can see they came through so we're getting in the what are we 200s close to 300 down wow that's insane let's see what the upload speed's gonna be yeah and just crazy numbers for upload as well I also want to say one more thing about this little guy this little little tiny plug surge protect director saved our laptops I'm not even joking so in most tropical climates you know sometimes the power can flick on and off and of course that happened here just like it's happened in many many other places that we've been in the world but when it happened here like a week or so ago the power went out and when it came back on this basically blew up I can still smell it but it saved our laptop you guys From This Moment On well actually I should say from the moment on that Max and Marin Voyager Guru our friends they have a channel as well they told us about this we know about surge protectors and things like that in the past but we just never traveled with them but am I ever happy that those guys kind of forced us to get that because we would have been without Max right now they lost their Max at one point in the Dominican Republic when it happened it's only ten dollars can't recommend it enough we'll put a link down in the description uh to an Amazon product if you want to purchase one because you guys you just should From This Moment On We're just making sure we have one now speaking of links if you want to book this place we're also going to put a link down below you don't have to ask us a reach out via email or a DM or whatever there's a link below in this video if you just want to book this place we're not working with them but we would highly recommend it one thing to keep in mind though there's a lot of mosquitoes I've been bit by more mosquitoes here than I think maybe anywhere in the world be prepared for that but you can get some bug spray which we bathing ourselves in this and it's going to help but this is the time of day where we normally go out to the pool we're gonna try to get out there do a little bit of relaxing and pick you guys up in a little while it's a few hours later we did take a little bit of a break and now it's dinner time we often eat out as we alluded to earlier we often go over Thai food green curries become a bit of an addiction something you're gonna miss a lot but tonight we're making this little not coming some fries too well if you want to know us making like Mexican bowls I guess like tofu rice bowl there is some tofu right um yeah tofu right there but yeah it's gonna be a yummy dish but we we meant to tell them like how we've been here for a month and like how the day-to-day life was going especially with things like laundry yeah so it's something that someone like you guys asked us all the time is how we do laundry when we're traveling a lot of time it's in the sink or oh we try to rent places that have a washing machine in them this one does not but funny enough right down the road probably one minute walk there is a little laundry mat you can take your clothes in and they can do everything for you I don't think it costs very much but they also have two washing machines right outside right on the street outside costs 30 Baht 30 bucks throw your your laundry in it takes about an hour so we often like what we did today we will go throw our laundry in go for a walk and by the time we get back it's done and we bring it back and it just dries quickly in the sun another housekeeping item we took care of while we were here because it has been for a while is our teeth I know you guys probably commented already we're talking about how nice your teeth are so much better right okay so I'm kidding but no we did go to the dentist here in lamai just to get a cleaning and uh and a checkup um no cavities that's great and our teeth are now clean do you remember what it cost it wasn't that much money I want to say it was 1800 1800 bod what is the conversion on that 1000 bot is about forty dollars so it was a Canadian so it was probably about 60 US Dollars uh each to go get our teeth cleaned and it was a perfect state of the yard dentist office so if you're ever wondering you can get that stuff down on the road there's a lot of countries that have dental tourism Believe It or Not turkey is one of them we did that before when she had her crown uh break off when we were in Greece but yeah it's really good to know that but very convenient that we can get our teeth cleaned while we're here we're also getting ready to watch more shows tonight not friends but we've we've been watching oh that's kind of uh relevant not breaking bad but something else last thing we just finished Better Call Saul and I know we're late to the game on this but oh my what a tie-in to the original Breaking Bad series let us know what you guys watch on Netflix we're always looking for shows whenever we stay for a month in a place we get time to finally like watch something so we're always looking for recommendations we're thinking we're going to start Obi-Wan yes we're a bit of star Wars nerds so we want to watch that again that's been out for a while but yeah we're behind on everything basically for like I feel like a year we barely watched any shows and now we're just trying to catch have you know how's the meal going here it's almost ready I think I'm good to Plate it all right so we're gonna give our final thoughts here on Thailand this is it this is it you guys we're not going to be uh tasting our food but we promise it's good but we'll wrap it up right now because what a time it has been in this country so Thailand as we said we've been here approximately three months on and off not consecutively really really loved it it was all right it was our first time here I can't believe that now I feel like we've definitely well introduced into the country we definitely want to see more in the future oh yeah not everything went as planned or as we hope but in general I know exactly what does but in general we've really loved it Bangkok is now one of our favorite cities ever yeah we got to see some beaches we got to see some friends like it's been amazing it's been great we met so many people here uh to any of you that are watching it was so nice to me you guys got to meet up with our old friends jumping places we just had a great time first time to Thailand like the south of Thailand is amazing there's so many more coasts or Islands we need to go so see down here but we know we need to get to the north but I think kind of like what we didn't expect is how much we'd love Bangkok yes we've heard a lot of people say this now like a lot of Travelers but Bangkok is just such a world-class City and we love it I can't and I think one thing we haven't actually touched on in this video is Thai people as well they are the nicest friendliest people ever so incredibly nice so we're definitely gonna miss the Thai people so you're probably wondering what happens next I know we mentioned earlier we are going to another country we're not about to reveal it it's a country we've been to it yeah we'll give some hints right now there's a lot of people new around here but there's a lot of people that are not new thanks to both of you guys both of you groups we're going back to a place that we haven't been in quite a while and we need to let's say finish a story right yeah this is the first time we're gonna get to visit this country might we say on our own terms on our own terms we had to leave this country last time not on our own terms this time we're going back it's a big hint for all you guys have been watching but I know there's a lot of new new people going like what are you what are you talking about so we're going back to continue a very big story and we can't wait to show you guys you're all going to be excited and I think all of you guys have just figured it out right now are going yeah it's about to happen so if you're new here thanks for watching getting this far in the video it's Trevor and Anna delightful Travelers hit subscribe click the like button leave us a comment if you're not new great to see all you guys again we appreciate each and every one of you especially our patrons and channel members speaking of that there will be a wrap up Thailand video probably about 10 minutes while I'm just wrapping up our thoughts on different categories category true uncut thoughts about Thailand yeah be on our patreon and this is a channel new thing we're doing but it's where we really give our honest thoughts about like if you're looking to travel this is for you this is why you want to sign up we just give uh our insights let's say to what we would want to do if we were coming back again but what a time has been I can't believe you believe it all right our food is getting colder we should wrap this up food time okay we gotta go eat you guys all right guys that's it from Koh Samui Thailand wishing you delightful travels see you soon
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