hello and welcome back to Khao Koh here in the beautiful province of Phetchabun
and today we're enjoying a little bit of luxury
we haven't come too far away we're about 15 minutes away from the beautiful temple on the
glass cliff that we went and visited last time and i've checked into a beautiful resort called
the capoc and i've got the pool villa room which is extremely beautiful let me take you inside
i'll have a little tour show you around because inevitably when i settle in i do tend to make
a bit of a mess i will take you out on dreamy later so out here we have the beautiful design
that's very very beautiful very minimal i love the wood and just the window there and then you
can see that tree that tree actually sticks right out of the bathroom which you'll see in a moment
and there's just luscious gardens here and there's about four other pool villas
and they're not squashed together so there's quite a bit of space which is nice and then
just behind here there are the other types of suites that don't have pools but they just look
equally as beautiful decided to treat myself and they did have a good offer on i basically got
this room at the price of the other rooms so i paid 8 500 baht per night here so
almost 300 or just under i just felt like treating myself and since i'm staying here i thought i'd
show you because you might want to stay here too so let's come in don't mind the butterflies okay
the ones going in my house get out of my house so when you come in you can see you get
complimentary umbrellas robes slippers there's a safe usual stuff and then the sink and the
bathroom the bathroom is quite nice the shower room i should say because the bathroom itself is
quite unique in this particular room the bathroom is outside there's the tree we talked about
up into the nature and then out here you can have a nice bathtub in the evening and you can
kind of with that outside bathtub kind of feel like you're outside in nature almost
i might give that a go tonight no promises the bedroom the bedroom is massive the mattress
is huge and extremely comfortable and i just like the minimal fittings you know like these
these like lamp features they're very minimal very clean very scandinavian nice telly i don't
know who this ugly mug is on the telly but uh uh yeah you can lie in bed and of course
hook it up to netflix and amazon prime and i've just got it on youtube at the moment
and obviously from the pool sorry from the bed boom there's the pool you got some bean bags
and i'm on the end here so i have a little bit more privacy or a little bit more
you know a feeling of being in nature just because i don't have somebody on my right
hand side and then in the distance you can see the wind farm that's very famous in this area and we
will go visit that later i am going to show you around not just you know the resort this isn't a
resort video this is just a portion of the video i will take you out on dreamy later although i do
kind of want to get get settled and use the pool so beautiful design beautiful location
and uh what do you think would you stay here let me know in the comments here we go
so
oh this place is so relaxing my gosh nice dip in the pool a nice little nap the sun looks
like it wants to come out today which is nice this hotel is so well designed
i really just love the minimalism of it you know and the fact that it's so much in the forest and
they've really kept so many trees so many green areas there's this huge lawn area here that leads
up to the restaurant lots of lovely flowers and even in the restaurant itself they've
i don't know they're just the way they've designed the tables and the furniture to include plants
and you can overlook into the other rooms in other areas just looks beautiful and just just to remind
you you know i know a lot of youtube channels they get free accommodation for saying nice things
i'm paying i i always pay ever since covid and starting a travel channel i didn't want to use
the channel or email ahead and say um i'm a really big youtuber can i stay for free
because i didn't it didn't feel right so while we're at this stage and with covert still going
on i just don't feel right um they definitely get a lot out of it you know especially some of
the places i've stayed they've emailed me and said please come back and make another video we've had
so many bookies and i'm like no that's good that's all for you um but yeah sometimes when i say all
nice things you probably think i'm getting paid to say it but this place is really nice
so come here dinosaur park amazing dinosaur and uh it was a hundred bar and it was on the side of the
road and i thought why not it's brilliant i've already just walked in and i love it
they move they move and they their eyes blink and it's they have sound effects it's quite scary if
you're like eight years old that's a velociraptor and then we've got ginormous brachiosaurus here
and the brachiosaurus his tail's wagging and his head's moving and he's he's moving around it's
cool i mean i thought it was just going to be like this i thought it was just going to be stationary
you know but they move around like robotically
i've come into a neon world and i can hear scary dinosaurs
this is so well done so well done
i mean look they have like these ones right and i think they probably bought these first
and then they probably got loads of bad reviews on google like oh it's just babyish
sorry and then they were like all right then we'll make it more scary we'll get loads more
we'll get loads more and we'll get them to move look at this guy that's in the bushes and uh you
can hear right that they've they've taken the sound bites from the from the movies jurassic
park so oh jesus it's sometimes you don't see them and then they just start moving spinosaurus and uh
it's big it's big you could spend an hour here with the kids and there's loads of families here
okay we've come up to the top there's a beautiful memorial here to a very recent war
so believe it or not in this area in the 1960s until the 1980s so in my lifetime when i was a
little whipper snapper the thai army were fighting the communists here and they have an incredibly
tall and beautiful marble monument to commemorate the those who lost their lives fighting here and
then they've got this battlefield that they've kept quite nicely and you've got the trenches
here where they used to run around and reload the guns and then they have all these bunkers
that they must have had machine guns or mortars and there's another museum just a little bit
further which we'll go to next where i think they have a lot of the weaponry um and crashed
helicopters and things like that i haven't been there yet that's just up the road from here but
the best thing about being up here um for me because i don't really know much about that war
but it's the views up here have a look at this so there's that distant can you hear
music playing from the town below which i drove through have a listen
and of course the view is 360. it's absolutely amazing and i've just looked on google maps and
those distant mountains beyond the valley that's loy that's isaan that's where we're going soon so
there's so many more adventures to go ahead and i can't wait to get to isan
that'll be the next province but we haven't finished with pechabun throughout my trip
i've been constantly thinking as i drive through province by province in thailand where would i
buy land where would i build a home where would i live and up until now koh samui patalong and here
are my top three at the moment if you had a gun to my head where would i buy land some of the homes
in this area in pechabun the wooden and western style homes as well as beautiful thai homes
the architecture really goes well with these pine trees and it gives it that european feeling that
premium feeling however you can just nip into town and the 7-eleven and you can get fruits
and thai food and all the beautiful things that you would expect to have in thailand but i don't
know just something about the fresh air and the clear visibility and the the freshness of being
up in the mountains and pine trees i don't know it just makes me feel like i'm yeah back back in
england up in the peat district or in scandinavia but it's thailand so i don't know i just love it
i was just doing a piece to camera a second ago just just there the entrance to the tunnels
and after about 10 seconds i started to feel weird and i looked down and i was standing
on this line of millions of termites i think they're termites you know because the ants
don't do that do they they don't walk in threes and they were on a mad mission
and they were all over my shoes and up my ankle and i was screaming
but i got them off and i followed their line they it goes about 40 meters down this path
they're incredible things and i don't know where they're going maybe they're going to
relocate or go on go for a war against the ants i don't know but um just be careful where you stand
and the winner of the cheapest museum in thailand goes to
10 baht 10 baht to get in and they have the history there in english and thai which is
really nice you have a read of that it's quite interesting about the communist war in the 60s
70s and 80s and they've displayed a lot of the artillery planes and tanks and things
that got destroyed that the army lost all that's interesting the engine of the tank you can see
where it was on fire very very impressive really tastefully done beautifully done and there's a
the part that really hits home is the fact that the tank the story of the rpg attack you can see
where the shell of the rpg went straight through the armor plating and probably smashed inside and
then you know fire in there and there's not much chance of you surviving that if
you're under attack and then the tank gets hit like that and they have little memorials here to
a few of the pilots and people who were in the battle and people have left money all
over the place if you're into military tanks and things you're gonna love this this is really nice
and i have to say the best thing about this and the monument is the fact that it's on the highest
point of the mountain so the views and as you're walking around and driving around here i mean it
is it's unbelievable especially in the afternoon i've never seen one of these helicopters so close
look how big the blades are another part of thai culture and history i should say that i had no
idea about i learned whilst we were in yala about the communist war but that was against the british
and the malaysians and and all that and that was a completely different thing this is
loy and pecha boone and one other province pincenter look where we were before
and the thai army fighting against the communists in the 80s
so that's funny isn't it to think that you know 60s 70s and 80s when the rolling stones and
the beatles and every free love and all that in the uk and in the western world
here in thailand in this particular area there was a war going on super interesting
okay i have to say i'm very very impressed with calco in pechabun province not only is it full
of history dinosaurs and incredible beautiful hotels and views and temples and everything and
fresh air and beautiful flowers um but it's also home to the wind farm which i'm really
if you know me i love engineering projects and as you can see the sun is uh is it moving down
it's towards the afternoon so by the time we get nip around it shouldn't should be around sunset
so let's go what you waiting for come on
it's hard to keep your eyes on the road the views are so good
oh i think that's my favorite view ever of the trip the wind farms the distant mountains the
afternoon light the temples man thailand holy crap you're the most beautiful country in the world
okay and what a drive that was an incredible windy road lined with sunflowers just epic epic
epic road uh and about 15 minutes away from the hotel not too far
and we've just i thought you know what it's the afternoon let's come and check out this wind farm
and uh i've never been up close to a wind farm like this before and the first thing that will
strike you is the sound they're noisy little buggers as the blades cut through on their
way down they create like a very loud windy noise which is something i didn't know they did
so they are quite noisy the second thing is they are absolutely massive uh humongous and there's
probably 25 maybe 30 of them across this mountain range and there's a little power generator
and it's cool to see and it's also very tight because you have a restaurant and there's a selfie
stage here which is where i'm at right now and and then there's a flower area for taking selfies and
they're spraying the crops i think they're growing strawberries everywhere on this mountain range is
growing strawberries but they don't look like they're fruiting yet it's a little bit early we
have to wait for december for them to fruit but uh just incredible area just absolutely beautiful
you can see back toward the mountain that we were at in the previous video with the incredible five
headed buddha statue and all of that area which was where we were hanging out a few days ago and
then this area has just been beautiful it's been so nice just to enjoy a little bit of luxury and
just the gorgeous mountains of cow co in pecha bun province really something else and there's the
moon and venus they've come back out again they're always together aren't they and then tomorrow
i'm going to head over to another mountain area and do another fun petribod video we're still not
finished we'll be here for a while i think maybe two or three more days maybe four or five more
days i'm in no rush to leave pechabun province another slice for you put it on your list if
you haven't already put it on your list thanks for watching and i'm just going to stay here and
stare at these things they're incredible so yeah
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