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hello everyone and welcome to the channel if you happen to be new around here my name
is Trevor and this is Anna we are the delightful travellers make sure to hit the Subscribe button
and click the Bell to follow along on our Now Thailand adventures and today is going to be
a super exciting day we've been waiting for this we had to put it off if you watched our
last video we got food poisoning and it kind of like well it kind of ruined a few days for
us but finally we're feeling better and today we're gonna go do a little bit of island hopping
for those that have been following along you probably know that we've kind of moved here to
Phuket at least temporarily the whole our whole point of traveling right now is to slow travel
and find places that we might want to live so we're staying in places for quite a while
we rented an apartment here we're just kind of setting up shop and enjoying living here for a
while so throughout the course of the video we're going to be talking about why we picked Thailand
and also Phuket you're taking gonna say this is egg hey all right thank you man this is gonna be
fun we're going out this is how you get into the boat all right you guys ready this is gonna be fun
so we're gonna be doing some island hopping today so much fun we're lucking out with the
weather here the first stop is going to be Bone Island it's really small there's
not much too I'm gonna stay here quickly before we do move on to the bigger more
popular Island but you guys the ocean is calm we're walking out today finally
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you just kind of hop over the side of the boat here I think this is kind of how it's how it's
going to be all day you just hop over the side of the boat yeah it makes it easier to get on
what look at look this way so he's going and then coming back for us I guess I don't think
we also mentioned this is a long tailboat so if you've ever seen a picture basically any picture
of Thailand they're usually with these beautiful beautiful boats wow what a beach though you guys
look at this oh our town is just like right there so it's a little shocking that this is here like I
know we've been staring at this beach for a couple of weeks now and we're finally here so yeah one of
the biggest reasons why we chose Phuket Thailand to come live for a while I mean look this island
hopping thing you guys is incredible there's so many islands and also like Phuket itself has so
many amazing beaches and this is just like this is bringing back all I can compare it
to is like Philippines I was gonna say this is in in once it's similar to the Philippines and
the fact that you can go and like just hop around to different islands and go on different types of
Tours obviously the peepee islands are very very famous we're gonna do that well probably maybe I
think maybe we're gonna not from here yeah from here we'll see but we should explain how we got
here like what the price was yeah so I think the cheapest way and I could be wrong I had to
do this is from one of the main towns or one of the places that a lot of people stay in there's
a pier there I think you can get group tours from there that do various islands like you wouldn't be
able to do whatever you want it would be like a set plan yeah basically here in rawai where
we're staying it seems to be just like a certainly private private tours they're straight up private
tours so we're paying about uh 1800 bucks which is somewhere around 35 I think US dollars to go
to this island and another beautiful island that's I think more of the second Island's a bit more of
a tourist attraction but it's well worth the price I mean you get to be on it yeah I like I
liking that I don't know what the next island is going to look like I like that this one is really
quietly there's no one here look a few people here there's swings there's palm trees this has
everything you need all right we got ourselves a spot in the beach and I thought it was hard to
find we had to like punch people basically they'd get a spot because it's so busy here just kidding
it was pretty easy but let's talk a little bit about the vegetation because something we love
about Phuket in Thailand is just especially as Canadians it just feels so exotic and tropical one
thing we said in our last video there are there's palm trees here but not as many as you expect but
there's loads of different types of trees it's really interesting like you have this guy here
I know look at above you there's like we call it a brain fruit tree we've had this anyone know what
this is because we saw them in the Dominican Republic too I don't know if you can see that
fruit that's growing on it but it kind of looks like a brain it looks like a brain we've seen it
before and then over here you have like you know just kind of more normal style vegetation it's
so Lush it's very foresty or something it is it's Lush it's junk I don't know if jungle is the right
word it's not really jungly but foresty but but tropical foresty a couple of favors from you guys
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this beautiful setting I think we need to go to test the water do an old-fashioned water test all
right hand is usually the official water tester now we did feel the water coming out of the boat
we kind of already did this but we didn't tell you guys because we had to walk in the water we'll do
it again but we'll do it again I wasn't really paying attention getting out of the boat either
so okay one thing I did notice that my feet didn't go numb immediately this is warm warm bath water
like you're not gonna have any shock getting into this water it's it's amazing there is actually a
restaurant back there Trevor will take you back later but he just went back and got us Beach a
beer a chang local well a tie beer basically okay so over here it costs 100 baht a little expensive
but like we're on an island so that's about 280 USD also a correction with the money Trevor said a
few minutes ago it cost us 1800 baht to get over here to do the full day tour basically on the
boat tour um that's actually 50 US dollars yeah so wrong there but either way I think it I think it's
absolutely good too like basically a private tour for the day for 50 it's pretty good how's the beer
is it cold it's very very cold I haven't opened it yet but it's cold in my hand I can tell you
that this is so awesome in this exotic location got ourselves a chang this time got ourselves a
chain I love that we're saying two dollars and eighty cents for three dollars is expensive for
a beer very very Thailand the beer is cheap here so speaking of prices here in Thailand that is
one of the things that highly attracted us to this place it's so affordable here you guys our
apartment that we're paying for is a little pricey but we opted to do that if you want to see your
apartment you can go watch I think it's about two videos ago we do a tour but I think Thailand's you
know any kind of budget can come here if you're on a backpacking budget it's certainly possible
as well check this out I made it over to the other side you can see all these like rocks just on the
beach so neat so not as much Beach over here but yeah you can see the restaurant back there again
these like really interesting trees on an island it's a very small island the lighting here is also
ridiculous look how pretty this is so all the sun rays are kind of coming in through the trees yeah
wow I'm so happy we did this today you guys so happy we did this today all right it's time to
leave this beautiful beach I know I'm a little sad but excited to see what's next but I have
a feeling this is gonna be our favorite movie we'll see let's get back on our beautiful boats
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all right stop number two to catch the name and so this is coral island and the beach is banana
beef it's Banana Beach I guess it must be shaped like that we didn't really check it out on the
map for water here you guys look at the color of the water oh it's silent oh it's silent so
first priority before we do anything is to get something to eat we've already obviously been to
one Island didn't need anything there so we're kind of hungry yeah we have plus we want to do
some relaxing and swimming and stuff so let's get the food out of the way the food has arrived
we get some chicken with garlic and does that ever smell good we also went for some pan fried noodles
with some veggies the menu here is entirely Thai food and not complaining at all about that it's
perfect for a beach day speaking of food another reason we picked Thailand and Phuket is for the
food this is our first time here to Thailand but we've all always always been huge fans of Thai
food but never tried it before in Thailand we knew obviously that it was going to be way better here
it definitely is it is not disappointed we keep getting to try new things every day I'm gonna try
this chicken here first now for all of you guys that have been following us for a while what is
with us in fried chicken on a beach and the Dr the Dominican Republic we've done this all the
time we're in an exotic location we always go for chicken let's see how Thai people do they're Fried
Chicken hmm oh that's good I hitting the spot I'll point this out it's obviously not um like
deep fried chicken it's pan fried chicken so it tastes very different than deep fried chicken that
we're used to having on a beach but it's really good the chicken's nice and tender you can really
taste that garlic I mean it was called garlic fried chicken and they did not hold back at all
so good maybe it even tastes better just because we're in this setting right by
this beautiful beach now let's try these noodles and vegetables it's actually been
a while since I've had a vegetable because we kind of cut back on that after having
some major tummy issues after food poisoning yeah it's first time in a while that we've had
a dish like that so hopefully it stays down oh yeah that's good nice and light the vegetables
are really crunchy they're not too overcooked which I really enjoy anybody know the name of
these noodles I really enjoy them they're like flat noodles and they're a little bit bigger
and very very soft and I think it's covered in like soy sauce probably some fish sauce in there
you don't taste it but I'm just guessing it's probably in there but very very good [Music]
thank you foreign [Music] went right in the water there this is gorgeous isn't it this is like it
doesn't get any clearer than this I know look at this wow look this way you guys the water is just
it's just it's almost emerald green in some spots and then other areas it's just I mean so turquoise
I did see a fish I think it was far away because it looked like it was this long so I didn't get up
close to it but it was like a long like blue fish so we got some chairs we did uh they were about
a hundred bought a chair this for the loungers there were 50 for like more of a sit-down style
chair where you can put your feet up basically yeah not too bad I mean given wherever we are
and also just so you know to get on the island I think it's a private island so there's a hundred
Baht entrance fee per person and they come over right away when you get here for that it's not a
scam or anything at first I was like what and then yeah I saw them do it to everybody but honestly
it is worth it for what you get right here so when we pulled up to the beach here we were so
excited because it looked really empty it's High season we were like where's everybody at we got
it to ourselves we were just we're just really stoked and then halfway through the middle of our
lunch Something Happened One boat one catamaran pulled up and I swear at least 100 people got off
I don't know how they all fit on that boat but they just kept coming and coming and coming it
kind of overtaking the beach a little bit it's not terrible but it's definitely not what it was when
we first got here so we found two loungers that were basically on the very very edge so there's
nobody near us we're like okay we can deal with this and then one family just one family came
with that literally just on the beach they put their blanket down directly but like right next
to us does that ever happened to you guys like you're on a beach you get all situated there's
still lots of empty space around the beach but for some reason some other people just come and sit
like two feet away from you like is that that's awkward it's probably a good time to talk about
the weather definitely one of the reasons why we came to Thailand today we hooked what is so far
in Phuket like for us anyway the best day so far it's been uh a couple weeks now I think it's been
a couple weeks and it's been lots and lots of rain here's here's what's funny it looked like the nice
day a few minutes ago we heard some rumbling some Thunder and it check the forecast and of course
it says now there's a possibility that it could be a thunderstorm in an hour or so you wouldn't
think it right now but either way it is worth it it's like 30 degrees Celsius out look at this
so behind me this seems to be like some glamping tents I don't think it's open though let's go take
a look yeah you can see these kind of uh tents no one is in them there's quite a few I believe they
that they do it says the Coral Beach Club so they belong to the beach club which seems to own most
of this portion of the beach anyway that Beach Club is who we've been paying so far it's where
we ate lunch it's uh we paid for the chairs so it's kind of nice that it's an organized system
I don't know how much those are but man can you imagine staying like right there and then having
the water like right there just like outside your tent so this is where we've been uh sitting these
are our chairs huh yeah not too bad I mean for a hundred Baht they're not bad we got some shade got
a good view a lot of people around I'm surprised so I don't know why I would have assumed that most
people would come like around noon or one o'clock and then spend the afternoon here which is what
we I think we got here at 1 30. but it's 3 30 now and there's still like big boats of people coming
in so it seems to get busier as the afternoon goes on and I kind of thought it might be the
opposite that would be busy when we got here and then people would gradually leave but oh well
it's still fun and it's still beautiful so let's go back to one of the reasons that we've picked
Phuket as a region to come to there are lots of beautiful amazing places so many recommendations
we got to from people but a lot of it are smaller places and we were a little bit concerned about
how much was there whether or not there's good internet here on Phuket it is an island but it's
also like attached to the mainland there's an airport there is lots of infrastructure there's
public transportation and the internet is maybe the best we've had anywhere in the world this
is crazy so I think the last thing to touch on about uh Phuket itself is just how convenient
the location is hey there's an airport here and you can get to so many different places but we
easily flew here from Bangkok so it's such a big check box also there are ferries that you can get
to kind of the other side of Thailand crabby we hear crabby is very nice and we're also down in
the South here which is sort of close to Malaysia as well so if you want to pop down the Malaysia
you can do that well it's about that time we uh to be honest we'd stay longer but we have to catch
our boat back it's about five o'clock and I think things actually shut down at five a lot of people
have left I think a lot of boats left around right around 4 30. yeah so it's been quieting down but I
think the restaurant stuff might shut down at five it was a great day this was so worth the
price I both beaches are exceptionally beautiful but this one is clearly like the more popular one
so if you don't want to be around any people we would pick the first one right yeah we really like
it's just quiet super quiet there's nothing but a restaurant there you can also have many people
I'm curious if we got any busier throughout the afternoon but I doubt it yeah come to this one
if you want more amenities you want beach chairs restaurants you want to be able to do some water
sports you can rent some kayaks it's so beautiful here there's a reason why all these boats show up
and it's still pretty chill you can get some lunch this is perfect this is what Thailand is all about
and it's one of the main reasons we wanted to come here and finally like we're feeling better
now that we were sick if you didn't know we had some food poisoning but uh we're feeling better
and it's just now it feels good now it feels like we can get out there and we can finally do stuff
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