last time on delightful travellers we said goodbye to the beautiful country
of Vietnam we know we'll be back again as it's one of our favorite countries in
this video we're back in Thailand except this time around we're going to focus on
Bangkok and figure out if it's a place that we could live I'm Anna and this is
Trevor in this series we are back in the incredible country of Thailand make sure
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well we clearly can't get enough of Thailand and Bangkok look at this we are back once again so
in today's video we're going to be talking about why we came back there are a lot of reasons so for
those of you who are tuning in for the very first time just a little bit of history for you we were
here in Bangkok about two or three months ago we only had a week and we ended up being super busy
just with work and everything so we didn't feel like we got to see nearly enough then we made our
way to Phuket where we spent a full month went to relay and then we just went to a little quick
quickest trip over to Vietnam to let you know kind of break up their visa and now we are back
it's so cool to be back we're once again kind of starting in a park it's just back there and look
you can see all these buildings surrounding us so stoked to be back in the city so stoked one thing
we loved about the city the last time we were here is all the green spaces and as you can imagine
Bangkok is a monstrous City it's super loud super busy so it's really nice to escape to These Quiet
green spaces and they've really planned that out nicely that being said last time we were here we
only got to see the second vet area we were just so busy we didn't have time to kind of get around
the city that was a big reason for coming back because we felt like we barely got to see anything
so in today's video and in the next next few videos we will be like getting around the city a
little bit more a little while we're gonna go take some public transit and go to a different area of
the city this really doesn't feel like we are in the middle of Bangkok right now look at this you
guys you could barely even hear the traffic if you guys are excited that we are back do us a favor
and hit that like button it just helps get the video out there because we get a lot of Bangkok to
explore check this out there are actually turtles in here there was one right there a second ago a
little camera shy because when we walked over it went under the water they all seem to be under
the water at the moment I see some like dark spots which I'm assuming is more girdles so the name of
this park is called Ben shastri Park it's a little bit smaller than the other parks that we've been
to in Bangkok but it's really green really quaint there's lots of different monuments as well of
course you have that very large pond in the middle it's a perfect way to kind of escape the chaos of
Bangkok all right well it's got it's good we're just off one of the main streets in the city so
here's a fun little fact about us that you guys might not know probably think we're Beach Bums
we're often in very warm climates he almost almost swept that on me but we're often in very very warm
climates and we're not in cities that much but I bet you didn't know we love ourselves a big city
we do and we've been trying to do you know this like living thing living in different parts of the
world so far we've only done BG destinations but we are trying to scoop up some cities as well we
do actually love love staying long time in cities we just haven't done it yet I know in this place
Bangkok is easily one of our favorite cities we've ever been to it's it's our favorite city so far in
Southeast Asia as well I think I think I don't know between what's the other one Ho Chi Minh
I really loved it so this week is also going to be you know I'm going to be comparing this to a lot I
know all right we have to find a Subway or a Metro we're gonna try some public transportation out
all right we first have to get across this busy street which is never easy yeah one
side of it has lights but this one no lights up here but I can't see them they don't work
so we're gonna have to just kind of nudge our way out and hope we can go you ready let's go
all right this isn't so bad at the moment yeah that was actually way easier than we went over
well the first thing I noticed down here is it's uh super super clean very clean I'm impressed
so we found a map uh where are we that's the question you are here they have one of those
lines we are at the sukhumvit MRP stuff I guess and we're going to Sanam chai station so that's
right there I do think you need to when you buy your ticket we'll see in a second because we've
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creators like us now let's go figure out the MRT all right here we go we're picking uh English
what's your destination yes there you go 36 uh 36 bot okay that's not too bad
I think that's about what a dollar ish I think it's around a dollar yeah so far so good here
all right please wait I hear a change coming out
that's a good sign so you don't get a ticket which is what I thought you
pretty cool we're in that's super cool I've never seen that where you get a
token that you tell I thought we'd have to put it in somewhere and you
don't have it but I had read something about needing it to get out so we'll
see on the other side definitely I'm gonna say for now don't lose these
well that was easy and the train goes very very fast now masks we think are optional but most
people do have them on there is so much signage there's tons of announcements they even tell you
what door to get off when you're coming off the train here we are I can't get over it now we're
gonna go above ground and figure out exactly where we're at we're taking you guys to another cool
spot all right we still have our trusty tokens have them okay this is insert token yeah she's
allowed out now let's see if I can go so let's talk a little bit more about why we came back to
Bangkok one is what you're supposed talked about like getting around this massive city is somewhat
easy based on public transportation you've also grab grab a grab or you can walk if you're up
for walking in the seat and not go if you're not going too far that being said we also need to once
in a while come back to a big city because we are traveling full-time sometimes things break
on us a few videos ago it's probably quite a few videos now our GoPro actually completely died so
at some point we need to replace that this is a good place to do it but also we as we do travel
full-time our clothes really really get worn down so a big city is a great place to you know replace
some stuff that we might need yeah and I think people might be wondering like in a city like
this every single brand is here right everything everything literally everything so one of the
reasons we wanted to come over to this part of Bangkok today is to come to this beautiful place
we're standing in a temple called want foe that is the short name anyway and this place is absolutely
beautiful it is so so colorful in here it's like a series of beautiful full buildings and kind of
pillars or mini temples there's flowers around there's beautiful statues and it's way bigger than
I expected this place is enormous so a couple of logistical things if you are coming here it costs
200 Baht per person that's about six USD to get in here it's actually free for locals I believe
and you do have to cover up because we are in a religious area shoulders need to be covered and
your legs need your eyes your knees need to be covered yeah I think it's supposed to be like
that for men too but they didn't say anything to Trevor was wearing shorts oh but there's other
guys wearing shorts we're not just the owners no absolutely not but I just wondered if they were
gonna like ask the guys to cover but there's lots of guys in short just I think as a guy make sure
your shoulders are also covered this place is so so big you were just saying you could be in
here for hours you ready yeah when I was doing my research some people said they spent I think I've
read somebody spent nine hours in here I think typically it's like two if you want to really see
everything but wow it's great you can literally walk around forever yeah and I mean you just
keep looking up such a big place the buildings are massive they're way bigger when you're out on the
road it doesn't look like the buildings are going to be this big but these are giant and everything
is just colorful we have been to a few different temples around Asia before in China and Vietnam I
remember we've been to Italy in Thailand yet maybe not this might be our first definitely the biggest
temple we've ever been to most of them are kind of just one big room and then a few other buildings
this obviously we just said it's huge in here and I did pull up a few facts for you guys in advance
gonna read them off my phone again sometimes we have to say this in videos people who are like
you need to do more research we are not historians we're not here to tell you the whole story of you
know we're not a travel like channel on the chat on the Travel Channel we don't make documentaries
and phones exist and we use phones to find facts because you can exactly so if anything's incorrect
you can blame Google mommy anyway the uh this place was actually believed to be founded in the
16th century and was later served as the Royal temple of King Rama the first and among ties
it's known as the nation's first Public University thanks to 1360 marble inscriptions about medical
historical and liberal sciences that is not what I thought you were going to say we just
came over to the main attraction here which is the reclining Buddha it's actually 46 meters long
eria until you actually get in here this is what apparently what everybody comes here for yeah look
at this you guys I'm gonna try to point off this statue is absolutely enormous I don't think I've
seen a statute this big indoors definitely not well yeah look if we go this way you can see like
the end of the statue but one thing we did have to take our shoes off yeah I can go into any of
it inside the shrines or temples yeah it's cool to give you a bag and I'm assuming when we get to
the other side we just drop the bag off and put our shoes back on so right next to the temple is
this market now I forget the name do you remember the name Tian it might be Tian but the thing is I
actually wonder if it's a morning Market because it looks like they're kind of taking things down
if you look over there or we're just in the wrong place yeah it could be either one we could be
in the wrong place or it's also late afternoon I think so maybe they're shutting down for the day
here's here's the thing though it doesn't smell very good in here I think we walked right into it
and walk down the fish aisle well we just walked right through that market and uh yeah we're kind
of a little bit lost I look green because this this thing but there's not much happening here
so my hunch is this is a morning Market again we don't know it doesn't say online so that's one
of the tricky things but either way we're going to just see what's uh around the corner up here we're
clearly not the only ones I feel like all the random people we walk into are all sort of like
looking around like they're missing something as well yeah look but anyway we're coming upon this
all right well it turns out there's a river here but we knew there was a river here we actually
hadn't seen it yet I can't believe like this seems to be one of the big ways to get around we do
we're talking about public transport and we never mentioned so you can actually get around by ferry
not quite sure how it works because I haven't really looked it up but I think there are a lot
of fairies around here that can take you kind of around the city so you can also rent a long
tail boat all right it's hot but we came over to get one of our favorite things coconut ice cream
let's be honest this could be the real reason we came back to Thailand in general look at this I
forgot how beautiful this dish is you have the coconut ice cream the way he said it's homemade
ice cream with no Dairy I know a lot of you guys will like that but it's also in this coconut and
from what I remember there's going to be shavings in the bottom of this so if you can see in there
you've got the shaved coconut meat coconut ice cream and then peanuts on top so they actually
had mango sticky rice here as well which is another of our absolute favorite things but
it's a really really hot day so the idea of one of our favorite treats coconut ice cream that is
really really appealing [Music] how much did you miss that amazing this is literally one of the
best things that ever existed yeah I said that for us Thailand has some of the absolute best desserts
in the world but the food and foodie but there is a big problem when it comes to desserts we can
never decide between this and mango sticky rice if you love mango sticky rice if you guys don't
know what that is we did have it and I believe in one of our food videos we'll make sure it's a
link to it but Man Thailand knows how do food the other thing Thailand knows how to do well Bangkok
Thailand I should say is rooftop bars take a look at the views here we are 30 floors up and we have
360 views of this incredible City and we gotta craft beer it's called brewski there's also some
music on in the background it's annoying music I'm not gonna lie I'm just gonna keep talking over it
so we don't get a copyright strike but you guys we missed this about tiling great beer but more
specifically incredible views here at brewski they actually specialize in craft beer which
anybody that follows us knows we absolutely love it is however really really expensive in Bangkok
and Thailand in general Trevor got a think of full painting it's like basically the equivalent of 10
USD which is a lot that's really really expensive if anybody tries to say like that's typical for
Southeast Asia or you're in Southeast Asia so you it should cost that much we were just in Vietnam
and it was basically half the price so not sure why it's quite so expensive it may be that they
don't actually Brew their beer here and have to ship it in from other countries and if so
why why are you making it and if not is there we should ask people yeah like local actually made
craft beer that's made here in Bangkok we'd love to know but putting that aside another
reason that we've come here come back to Bangkok back back to Thailand in general is that we are
scoping out places that we want to stay for a while we kind of talked about that earlier how
we need to stay in a city for longer but we're really here to scope it out hopefully find a few
different more neighborhoods this time because as we said we didn't really get to explore last
time so this time we're gonna you know try to get to at least a couple more places but if you
guys have any suggestions for great neighborhoods here in Bangkok please leave a comment below yeah
like what we're really thinking about like living here for a while yeah and we love like communities
with the great buildings you know great internet a place where the pool would be at really wonderful
but when there's a lot of stuff when you walk out your door like craft your bars great restaurants
you know everything right right outside your own door yeah I don't know if we'd live in this area I
don't know it's really expensive and by this area I mean soup and wood so this is uh the expensive
area I know there are other neighborhoods around I think Ari or something like that might be one
so we definitely want a more chilled out neighborhood but with access to areas like
this and other amazing neighborhoods in Bangkok we wanted to leave you guys with a shot at night
here look how amazing it is when the lights are on in the city now if you happen to be wondering like
where this is brewski that is it's in the Radisson blue and soup and wood yeah the very very top the
30th floor so it's such amazing view obviously there are loads and loads and loads of rooftop
bars we've had people recommend a whole bunch so many of you already have pretty much I think
pretty much every hotel has one yeah yeah that's the thing about Bangkok this there is rooftop bars
everywhere if you guys have favorite and you're watching and you've been here before let the
people in the comments below know because this is probably not the best one but man we are happy to
be back in Bangkok we got more videos coming up here we don't know how many but more guarantee
there will be some food coming up probably can't be here in Bangkok in Thailand and not be eating
a whole bunch of different types of food so yeah like that exactly now if you don't know who we are
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I can't wait to see more of it all right so we're off to get food but we'll see you very soon in the
next video all right guys that's it from Bangkok wishing you delightful travels see you soon
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