hello and welcome to the province of utah tani in central thailand it is a very undiscovered
province in thailand especially with foreign tourism and today we're coming west into the
province up into the mountains lots of farming lots of hidden gems including incredible
wooden temples like this place behind me you'll see in this video is just unbelievable
and it's beautiful this province is amazing unfortunately my honda dream my vintage honda
dream is in the garage she's broken at the moment we don't know when she's gonna get
fixed so i am using a secondhand little bang of yamaha but that's okay we should
be able to get up these mountain roads this is going to be a hidden gem this is going to be
we've got to go here kind of place this is an undiscovered province this is utai tani enjoy
okay good morning welcome to the forest i've driven about an hour this morning we're heading
towards the mountains however along the way there is a place that one of you guys has recommended
it's on my google map form and it just says paddy i know you love trees there is a massive tree here
and then they've sent me some gps coordinates and fair enough i drove it to the coordinates
and there was a carpeting parking place and i said big tree so i'm just walking along
the forest there's loads of big trees but this has to be this one here look at this
jesus christ you know it's tall when the really tall trees just go to about the
level of where the roots meet the trunk this is unbelievable
so this has a record i don't know if it's the tallest the biggest or the widest route system
i'm not sure but look as you can see the root system which goes right to the to here that's
where it kind of meets the trunk but where it meets the trunk where they all come together
that's easily as tall as most trees and that's just the roots coming out
of the ground can you imagine how deep these must go in this soil are you ready
this is really cool thank you to the person who recommended the massive tree
i do love trees i went to visit a tree in yala province and they
said that that was the tallest and then i went to another one in koh pang yang and
they claimed to be the tallest i don't know what this is claiming to be but it's absolutely massive
let me put you down and i'll give you the scale of this thing
wow
so
to be fair this little uh yamaha isn't too bad she's a bit shaky have a look at the front here
see that it's definitely not supposed to do that and the front brake doesn't
work just the back brake here it works but have a look at this utah tiny countryside
just driving along these country roads we're on the way to the wooden temples very famous but
for half an hour i've been driving through corn sugarcane i think papaya i mean look at it
and to think that in about 15 minutes more we'll get to a really popular famous instagram spot i
mean this is very remote actually i just want to very curious i want to answer an age-old question
and that age old question is of course what is it like inside a sugar cane farm
oh it's oh it's muddy oh it's muddy and slow okay no no oh my shoes are all bloody muddy now yeah
i thought that was like just dirt but it's it's all wet and sludgy god damn it
anyway another 15 minutes more and we should be at this place which i just i'm i'm very
this is far away from anything i'm not complaining just a little bit confused
okay we've made it to this wooden temple and i've had a little look around and spoiler alert this
place is next level this place is unbelievable wait till you see it so we made it and i can't
actually believe that this place is here because the whole time i was driving for the last half an
hour i've just been driving through corn fields and sugar playing fields on tiny little narrow
country roads and i was thinking surely there can't be something of any interest this far in
the middle of nowhere but alas i've arrived and wait till you see so when you park up you can
see that they are building a reclining buddha at the moment they just kind of looks like that
board is advertising for some donations they need some more funds to create it and so that will be
really nice when that's finished but the rest of the grounds is finished this has basically just
been saved and recommended to me as the wooden temple in the countryside and it is a wooden
temple in the countryside but it's way more than that the gardens here are world class the plants
the flowers everything is just so perfectly kept and there's a couple of staff walking
around trimming things but there's nobody here the car park is completely empty there was some monks
leaving when i arrived i think they were up in the temple perhaps so that was really nice but they've
gone back up into the forest so when you arrive you just basically you come through these little
steps and you get to this lake now this lake is a little bit like the lake from the charlie and the
chocolate factory movie you know willy wonka when that boy the german boy is drinking from it and he
falls in and then he gets stuck in the tunnel and he gets sucked up out into the thing and
willy wonka's so mad because his chocolate fountain has been contaminated so perhaps
on other times of year the water's clear and then you might get an amazing reflection but
just look behind me here this is the temple and it is surrounded by again beautiful trees and flowers
there's also ornaments of cranes and deer i wonder if this area has wild deer because i know they do
have in the north of thailand and there's this incredible looks like driftwood wooden
bridge that goes across this lake so let's walk across this together and i mean just look at
the little flowers here and stuff it's so nice and this kind of looks like chilli doesn't it
i know it's not chilly but is it chilli it might be chilly or green beans or something
just look behind me here this is the definition of tranquil and just remember how how
in the middle of nowhere this was i was the whole time there can't be anything up here
and there is a couple of like really beautiful limestone cliffs and this is kind of nestled in
the middle and um i mean just look at it it is i mean if this was like in bali or chiang mai
this place would be the number one tourist site right because i mean this was just this
is just stunning and um i can hear lots of fish in this lake splashing around
and there seems to be okay there's a little like section here to
stand a little bit with more space here and then you can take the selfie like this are you ready
hi
about two minutes down the road from that incredible wooden temple is pui poiwai cave
it's part of a national park and
as far as i'm aware it's been completely abandoned this seems to be the ranger station
and there's some information about the cave in tai so i think we're good to go in nobody around
and um we're gonna be going up this path tell you what some of the houses we were seeing along the
jive here just a short drive some of the the money that these people have they have i saw
there was like residential houses and they had incredible golden roofs and statues of buddha and
just dotted amongst the farmland and in between these beautiful limestone mountains
this is uh quite the picturesque part of thailand i have to say utaitani is not what i expected i
expected all of these central provinces to be flat and kind of boring and i would probably
think i'd struggle to find interesting things there are so many mosquitoes here holy crap
let's walk a bit quickly and get up into the cave hopefully it's not too far
everything takes twice as long when you're a youtuber
i didn't think i'd be in a jungle today oh hello
super cool millipede guy
i'll just leave him down there see if he uh unfolds
later is this the cave tell me this is the cave i'm sweating and i'm dying of mosquitoes
it's just so spooky guys
i want to go in i'm only going in with a torch because um
you know what i'm fine here i'm fine here i don't need to go down
there's like pictures of like i think this might be a grave i don't know it's a bit spooky
really spooky there's absolutely no noise it's like absence of noise look just listen really
to me that's more spooky than like the sound of a drip drip drip or a squeak squeak squeak
from a bat there is um some candles and a buddha statue and it's all covered in dust and um super
spooky and i'm not going down there for love no money and um i got some bad news as well
i just had a text message if you watched the last video when i was driving into udantani
um i broke down dreamy had a really big breakdown and she she's um in the garage getting fixed
luckily the thai guys who rescued me lent me their banger little motorbike to use for a day
or two while streamy got fixed anyway he's just text me and he said his mom is going to
mentor him for giving the bike to some stranger she needs the bike she's like where's the bike
he's like oh i've lent it to a foreigner that i'd met randomly and she's like what so she's he's in
big trouble and he says can you please give me the bite back and i said yeah sure i'm an hour
and a half away from town so i'm gonna just whizz back so we're gonna cut this video short because
i i want to give this guy his motorbike back blessing i don't want to get him in trouble
if you want to see more of this province we visited the golden palace and um the switzerland
of thailand the beautiful rock formations in this province but just in the previous video so
if you want to see more of this amazing province if you want to see some more hidden gems then
scroll back one video and go check it out you'll also see what happened to dreamy
um but yeah i it's not even eleven o'clock in the morning and i need to basically go back
and give this guy's bite back in the next video hopefully fingers crossed dreamy will be fixed or
repaired and we can continue the journey to the next province thank you for watching thanks
you