last time in delightful travelers we finally caught a break with the weather and went island
hopping here in beautiful Phuket needless to say we were blown away in this video we're
taking the local bus to a popular town called Patong we heard mixed things about this place
so we're here to see what it's all about I'm Anna and this is Trevor in this series we're
finally experiencing one of our bucket list dreams living in Thailand make sure
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good morning and welcome back to another video from rawai phuket if you didn't know we've
actually been living here for a little while that's basically what today's video is going
to be devoted to what it's like to be here what it's like to live here however this area rawai is
pretty quiet especially this time of year so the thing talking about popping on a bus and exploring
an area that's probably a little bit busier so all morning I've been over here working on the
next video doing an edit and we've been answering your comments as well thanks for leaving comments
by the way we absolutely love that but this is typically how we start almost every single morning
no matter where we are in the world luckily here in Thailand when I have the video exported the
upload speeds are very fast the internet is great here you guys in case you didn't know
but I'll tell you what before we do hop on that bus I think we're gonna need to grab some food
before we do get going we wanted to give you guys a weather check the weather's been all over the
place remember in the last video I said things were improving and we were crossing our fingers
well it's been like so so again here I'll show you so here you go you can see this kind of uh gray
blanket in the sky I mean in one way it's kind of nice because it blocks the Sun a bit but whenever
that happens it usually means at some point today it's going to rain it's what it does here in
Phuket a lot it rains quite a bit no we're not in rainy season by the way that's supposed supposed
to be over all right so as you can see whoa It's kind of loud here the roads aren't really uh set
up for pedestrians huh especially this area where we're staying there's no sidewalks it's just kind
of like sort of I guess drainage areas on the side of the road that we walk along it's been fine
but just be aware of that I have to show you guys where we ate last night right at this little place
this is like one of our favorite Thai places in the town here it is we go there quite frequently
it's really well priced I think it's owned by a local Thai family it's really good look how
like that's it doesn't get more traditional and rustic than that one thing that blows my mind here
is the sheer amount of wires look at these power lines I know it's hilarious how do they figure
stuff out clearly it's cable and internet and all that stuff but whoa also can we point out there's
always like I'm assuming a monitor lizard it's a big guy I know Lily lives down there I feel like
every time we walk by we can see it's swimming around well we found our lunch spot this place
is called Macaw and as you can probably tell it's very hip it's very trendy it's very let's say Bali
like speaking of Bali legs look what I got here this is a Tropical Smoothie bowl and
it's very very very colorful honestly this is one of the things we love about tiling
the different styles of food we just showed you that little hole in the wall back there that was
traditional now we have a smoothie Bowl in this guy of course we have yogurt mango we
have granola pineapple passion fruit all of the things all right I guess the plan here
is just to get a big old bite it's probably going to be very cold let's just go for it
well this is going to hit the spot today it's very cold on the teeth but oh my does it ever
taste fresh mangoes mangoes in Thailand they just hit different you guys they're so so incredibly
flavorful all of the things are I really need to eat more passion fruit though this is one of those
things I never really thought about coming down here in the Dominican Republic when we were there
we ate it all the time so gonna have to put that on our list here things to eat more often but yeah
this is a great start to the day going to give us tons of energy because we have a lot happening we
got an iced coffee as well love the abundance of coffee shops around here and really great coffee
I went for a totally different type of Bowl than Trevor did this is always my favorite kind so in
here is cocoa powder there's banana there's peanut butter granola some almonds does that not sound
absolutely amazing and decadent and delicious we are keeping it healthy today so far oh yeah
that's really really cold as well but it's super rich super chocolatey almost like a dark chocolate
like it's very very strong rich and oh so good love it with a banana get some chewiness and
some crunchiness from that granola on top this is so yummy all right we finished up lunch Anna's on
her phone trying to figure out the bus huh yeah it's a little confusing so there's something
called the Phuket SMART Bus it basically goes from here all the way up to the airport and like stops
at all the peaches and all the towns in between we haven't taken it yet it seems like online it's
really easy there's like a way to actually track your bus but I can't really figure out where a bus
is so we don't actually rent scooters while we're traveling it's just it's not really our thing to
be honest we don't feel comfortable with it but one of the things about rawai here is we hear
that the public transportation is supposed to be all right pretty decent so it's a good alternative
we'll see this will be a test we'll see how it goes yeah first we have to find the bus
which we're not succeeding with so far all right success we found the bus stop actually the most
people I've seen ever waiting for this Festival what's up with that that's just our luck but no
sign of the bus yet we're a little bit early yeah hopefully though fingers crossed it's on time
all right that wasn't so bad huh no it was easy and it's like two
minutes late just so you guys know it was 100 yeah it must be to go to
the airport or just to go to the next stop I think it's just 100 bucks yeah
so we got a 45 minute drive roughly and then we'll pick you guys up in Patong
well overall that was a really easy ride it got really jungly there was lots and lots of traffic
it was very scenic but it only took about let's check here 45 minutes also we when we stopped
once to pick up some other people we did actually see some elephants right on the side of the road
yeah I don't want to go too much into this but something that you're gonna find if you come to
Phuket is there a lot of like animal experiences a lot of elephant sanctuaries and I would just say
do your research before you go you don't know a lot about it just Google something like elephant
riding ethics or something like that if you see anywhere that lets you ride elephants don't go
there please don't go there and please look it up and just do a little bit of research and make
sure the place that you're going to is actually ethical and kind to their elephants well welcome
officially to Patong Beach I know I said Patong earlier I didn't really describe where we are
this is a city on a beach I think it's a city or a very large town the vibe I can tell you is
definitely a lot different than robots yeah it looks a little busier here you guys well that
was funny a guy walking there he didn't want to be on camera but he watches us his name is Luke
thanks for saying hi Luke he actually watched us when we were stuck in the Philippines yeah
you guys didn't know that happened you can go back and watch it it's green obviously made
videos on the whole thing thanked us he was he said we got him through for one of the couples
I guess that gotten through lockdown quarantine so that's cool meeting people already but there's
a big beach this way yes a few Beach lots of people it's funny as we were driving here it
was just beach after beach after beautiful beach so depending on what you like whether you like a
big enormous Beach and kind of a very small or I should say large Town there's beaches like this
but there's also in between all the long beaches tons of little small ones with not many people
on it there really is a beach for everybody here and it's one of our favorite things about being
in Phuket so far we should probably bring up the fact that it's High season here just getting into
High season I think is what people tell us so this is the part we're a little confused about because
to us it doesn't feel like High season and I don't know if that's because Phuket is really spread out
it gets big right the islands it is a big island and we're staying in merway which we've mentioned
a bunch of times and it seems really quiet there we've never had any trouble getting in anywhere
the beaches are off never really is overly busy here obviously is a lot busier so maybe this is
more indicative to how busy High season yeah is for patongs like the main I think what helps is
like I'm looking around because this beach is so long and I think it really helps spread all
of the tourists and all of the people out and I think the town here or the city we have to figure
out which one it is I'm going to call it a city from here on out is pretty big as well so it just
it's kind of like an illusion it doesn't feel like there's that many people but we're told there are
well there's certainly no shortage of scooters around these parts
hundreds and hundreds years as far as I can see so we don't like to drive a scooter but not everybody
feels the same way apparently we should ask them at some point do you think we should maybe attempt
the scooter thing I think well yeah you guys can answer I think we should at some point but
somewhere really really really quiet like in the middle of nowhere definitely where that is I like
the idea of the middle of nowhere I'm just over here eyeing the fake uh fake Nikes the fake New
Balances fake diesel uh flip-flops all of the things it's also glasses down there it's one of
the things when you're in Thailand you can kind of get anything you want I think it's they actually
look pretty good I mean maybe they're real what do you guys think are they real are they fake
you want some pink Ray-Bans they look pretty good I mean I think they look good they look all right
hard to say I mean there's a lot of a lot of selections here you could go for these guys
so clearly Patong is the place to be if you want to be able to go to some familiar places there
is a McDonald's behind me I think it's the first one we've seen since Bangkok there's a couple of
Starbucks here I think I see a Subway as well it's got all the things whereas we're why I don't know
if it has any dream restaurants at all so not only is Patong a good place to come if you're looking
for some of those familiar chain restaurants but if you need to do some shopping we actually just
went into a Watson's Pharmacy because we are staying in a smaller town and we can't find
all the little things that we need to stock up on when they get low good place for shopping as
well if you need some I don't know new clothes or anything like that but the thing that Patong
is really really famous for is its nightlife as we've said many many times in previous videos and
maybe even in this video you're not nightlife people but we figure maybe we're gonna go like
find a drink sit down somewhere relax for a little while and pick you up when it starts to get darker
all right well welcome to uh Bangla Street this is a pretty Lively Street Lots going
on here this is definitely a bit different than what we've been experiencing the last
two weeks here in Phuket wow the street was pretty crazy uh let's clarify that it's been
a couple of hours if even that amount of time it's maybe what 6 30. so this is not
like midnight or anything like that you guys this is crazy I mean we're used to rely where
there's like no one here and everywhere I look there is just people always and it's
so early imagine this place like late at night I can't even imagine this place late at night
the craziest thing about the street so far is
not the lights it's actually the amount of noise and music
every little every bar has a different music on so have fun I can't make it a single thing
like honestly it sounds like five songs all blended into one oddly enough they all kind
of sound together when that happens but we're just kind of exploring right now Thailand isn't
like this all the time we just had to show you guys but yeah check this out this is like people
hanging out over there there's lots to look at lots to look at on this street ah no thank you
well we just found some kind of a night market here well look look at all the seafood you guys
this is wild yes the lights are bright it's super active in here huh what do you think I
think it's very busy here people trying to get you into everybody's trying to get us in so far
yeah that's okay here okay thank you now took it out wow it's like overwhelming here it is this is
the first but we haven't been to that many night market so that's the first time we've ever no I
mean everywhere like so far we haven't seen this many people in a while night markets I'm good with
there's so much food though look how do you pick look at all this food you guys like everywhere
I look there is food in the mood for anything specific maybe but we've already had something
sweet today but I feel like maybe if I saw ice cream with the coconut ice cream I'd maybe be
into that oh it looks like we uh found what we were looking for we're looking for coconut ice
cream yeah can we get a coconut ice cream please is there just is it in that yeah perfect one
one yeah one two share look coconut is way down there look at all that ice cream
it's a presentation I don't know if you noticed but when he was well before he put the ice cream
in he was kind of carving out the coconut so you get little pieces of coconut mixed
in with the coconut ice cream I just love that it's like cut into like this we've been looking
for one of these all day and we here we are we found it on like the major road in Baton
we've never had before coming to Thailand I don't think we've had coconut ice cream and
it is all the rage here it's one of our favorite things we've had it's so good so fresh almost like
a vanilla like but then you can taste that coconut it's so loud here you guys this is
wild I'm gonna try to get some pieces of coconut that were straight from directly
from the coconut mixed in with the ice cream I can't wait for you to try it isn't that good
sometimes it's like the simplest of ingredients is what makes it I mean this is literally coconut ice
cream and pieces of coconut yeah and I'm curious how they actually make the ice cream it almost
has more of like an icy sorbet to it so I wonder if there is actually milk in it or if it's made
differently than that because it does feel really really light it's not like a heavy ice cream whoa
it started to rain just a little bit and these guys are like back here just like putting this
up in an instance like they just put that up in an instant yeah speaking of rain I know we
talked a little bit about the unpredictability of the weather it was okay all day but it has
it did start to get dark about an hour ago there was a little bit of lightning now it's starting to
drip a little bit do you guys remember earlier in the video when I said whenever that gray
blanket is in the sky it means it's gonna rain should be obvious but now it did take all day
until the night time it's close to seven o'clock but at least we're putting up some cover first
it's like a never-ending Street Food Market I keep coughing around here to you I know I think there's
a lot of like smoke and different like what is that spices and stuff happening Ginger yeah I'm
not quite sure but look at all this food look it's probably stuff like this going on look there is
some crazy crazy crazy smells in there isn't there I know it's over over everything about this like
the overwhelming smells overwhelming people it smells very fishy and we're outside but hey that's
how it goes I mean it's southeast Asia isn't it a nutshell thankfully we thought ahead and brought
our our very beard umbrella it's a very very weird umbrella you kind of have to do this to it
hey but it works here we go it does the job now the camera won't be uh getting wet anyway but I
think we're gonna have to walk down this road and call it a day all right we found a quieter place
to kind of wrap slightly things slightly quieter this has been a crazy day I know we the title of
the video is like you know what it's like to live in Thailand it's not always like this
but the thing is it can be yeah and but I think to get a good idea of what it's like been like
for us isn't just watching this video but going back and watching the last one watching the ones
forward so you can see what we're why it's also like yeah but if you're into this kind of thing
I mean come to Patong you can get this any kind of any hour of the day while you're in Patong
but it's been great there are a couple things we wanted to mention one was just how nice Thai
people are they're like literally the sweetest people ever they are they're so nice Definitely
expect that and the other thing is if you're worried about people speak English and we're
going to struggle with that yeah no I mean not a it hasn't been a problem it hasn't most people
speak some English a lot of people speak a lot of English so you'll get by no problem we just wanted
to mention that I know a lot of you watching are going like well of course if this is your
first time here but we get a lot of questions about that stuff so just know that so it's been
a great day if you got this far in the video it's Trevor Anna delightful travelers hit the Subscribe
button click thumbs up it helps us out leave us a comment we're gonna hopefully Dodge the rain
umbrella is up here and we're gonna have to head home in about about 40 minute drive and call
it a day and I will say that I am happy that we decided to stay and Rawai and not here in Patong
definitely not admit so happy we came but not our Vibe no not at all but it's fun it's fun to come
here just for the day all right guys that's it from Patong wishing you delightful travels see you
soon