this is now my new favorite place in thailand you know thailand is known for the land of smiles
but i think it should be the land of surprises because of places like this beautiful welcome to
you probably haven't heard of patalong it's a quiet peaceful province in southern thailand
it doesn't draw many visitors thai or foreigners but it is a beautiful place
that is full of temples mountains and wildlife come discover patalong with us
we have an amazing day planned here in patalong and our first stop today is this beautiful rice
field cafe called tini patalon coffee which literally translates to this is patalon coffee
even though the cafe is only five minutes away from the city center this feels like you are
somewhere in the countryside we can see cows around there is a beautiful rice patty some
coconut trees and of course the gorgeous views of the cow oh mountain is that what it's called yes
of course the highlight of this place is the beautiful wooden bridge that takes you
further into the rice patty and there's little tiny wooden houses where you can actually sit
outside so you can enjoy the view but it's a bit rainy right now we're gonna head back into the
main wooden house where the indoor seating is enjoy our lunch and then we'll take you to the
most popular site in patalong which is a lake called thailand
i couldn't even if i tried it
so someone climbed up there before but how i had a hard time flying my drone up all the way
to the top why it's super high oh really yeah okay let's head back because we order food a bunch of
food but i think they might be cold by now can you see over there that's the train coming by
oh yeah oh too bad i don't have my drone up it would be
would have been a nice shot they have everything here thai food food and coffee right yeah southern
lunch was delicious so we recommend this place not just for the view but also the food and the coffee
and while i was eating i did a little bit more research about the mountain
back here so apparently you can hike to the summit and before the summit there is
a temple you can shop at and then you continue on with the staircase and it goes to the summit
and there's also a hole in the mountain where people like to take photos there i don't think
that's something we're going to do today because we have two more amazing stops we want to show you
but if any of you do please let us know we would love to see what it looks like
do you feel about the driving here i love it it's this is a real thai countryside
lots of rice fields it's so green isn't it yeah it's very green
and the local people are very nice they look they like to chat
there's a nice cave there too and the staircase up to the temple on top of the mountain oh yeah
i asked the old lady she said she has never been up there she she's pushing again
i did read something like the temple that is up there is kind of newly
built it's not that old no and he said it's not difficult to grow up oh okay
that's awkward when you asked her i asked her have you been out there
we are on our way to thailand but we just stopped here because he sees some fishermen
what do you call those using the fishing nets yeah but it's so unique because
if you look at it he's standing on one side of the
how would you call it yeah i don't know so i'll try my best to explain but visually we'll
probably try to capture with the drone so what it is is there's a giant fishnet that is hooked onto
these bamboo poles and the fishnet goes into the water and then when the fishermen want to
lift it up they actually have to step onto the back where it's kind of like a counter lever so
so their weight would then pull the fishnet up and they can check if there's fish and if there's fish
they can pull a rope in and gather the fish um and then when they want to move backwards they'll drop
the fishnet back into the lake i think this is actually the canal we haven't seen anything like
this anywhere in thailand no we saw it one time in bagpanang a fishing village in nakhon si tamarat
so basically in the same area in southern thailand like really close by we've seen this but not up
close like this it was motorized oh okay this is not motorized you can see that guy is manually
walking up there and trying to push the or trying to lift the fishnet up you can see there's around
seven of these nets or eight of these nets here and they're all connected to this little house
where probably it belongs to different families like different villagers build their own fishnet
we're here at the huge patalong sign which is also the start of the longest bridge in
thailand so this bridge is called akachai bridge or chalam praket bridge i believe
and it is a 5.5 to 6 kilometer long bridge that connects patalon province to some cloud province
what's also very unique about this bridge is that it goes all the way through the wetlands which
are very important to patalong because they are what helps clean the water helps uh provide food
for the wildlife and the birds and it also helps to prevent floods so that's why there's a lot of
rain happening around here but we don't see any flooding which is good so if you are a bird lover
then you'll probably want to come to this bridge because there are many places you can stop to
take photos and videos of the wildlife and there are so many different types of species of birds
so we're on the challenge bridge and this is the iconic wooden house
everyone who comes to this bridge to this wetland have to come and take pictures with yourself it's
pretty cute though it's like in the middle of the wetland here they should turn that into a airbnb
so they would have to build a bridge though for you to walk into the house i'll take a take a
little boat to uh to the dock so a cool feature on this bridge is that there are tons of signs
of birds and there are all the different species of birds that live in these wetlands
but we wouldn't recommend stopping to read all of them because that would be
very dangerous what do you think they're doing over there with the buffaloes i think they're
trying to get rid of the bugs that are bothering the buffaloes so they smoked them away that's so
that sounds so bad for the buffalo yeah or they're doing uh smoked meat right now smoked buffalo meat
it's either one let's hope it's the first one because the second one will take a while to cook
all right we go we finally arrived at talinoi where you'll see many vendors
selling drinks and local delicacies just like the fried fish eggs we've had earlier
right across the street from here is where we need to go we're gonna hop
on the boat to see the wild buffalos and maybe some blooming lotus flowers nice
we'll be cruising in the sea of lotus with this boat the largest sea of lotus in southern thailand
uh by the way it's 450 baht for the tour he said it's like up to two hours so cool
get out of here
incredible
but there are tons of birds which is really cool yeah some of them fly really close like along the
side of the boat and there's so many different species too yeah oh yeah it smells like buffalo
freely in this wetland okay so these buffalos have owners in the afternoon they will let them
come out and you know enjoy the water and roam around and in the evening they put
them back on the island just like this so they rest and sleep what do they eat
oh just grass in my
so they eat everything they eat these the plants they eat grass and if they can't find anything
they would eat this okay so there's tons of foods it's a good environment right they look healthy
they look very healthy what's separating us from them is just the two poles over there
likes you unfortunately we come a little later in the day all the lotus are not blooming right now
these are the lotus seeds these are still young to eat
oh but this one
no not that one oh babe this one is old enough you wanna try some have you seen uh noticing the seat
before i just know that some people are really scared of this pattern there's like a type of um
looks like pimples yeah but there's like a phobia there's a type of phobia here how do you eat it
oh you just break it
and then you just peel the skin out
you've done this before yes when i was little i used to go around picking lotus seeds and eat it
here most people will just pop this in their mouth but there's a seed in the middle that's bitter
yes wow you're good it's not a seed it's like a young lotus within it see it's not a seed
see it's like another young lotus this is the bitter part
and now you're left with fresh lotus seed
yeah these are young dough they're not ready so they're not as sweet yeah but birds will eat this
birds will eat them yeah this isn't too young so i'm gonna leave this with the birds
but as i said we came a little later in the day so the lotus
flowers are not blooming at the moment well there's one
yeah he said we have to hurry because the storm is coming
you know these leaves they're water resistant no they're not no no no don't do it
see even this one look at this one that is that's pretty cool
how cool is that we'll take one of these oh we gotta go wow
we have the most incredible day here in patalong it is such a beautiful town you must come to visit
the weather actually held up pretty well for us it didn't rain until almost near the end of our
boat ride in talinoi but it was still an amazing ride and we got to see lots of birds we got to see
the buffaloes we did learn something though which is the best time to come to talinoi is actually in
may june july and august and if you want to see the lotus blooming you should go early around
seven or eight in the morning because it's cool enough that the lotus will be blooming and when it
gets too hot apparently they will close and if you want to see the buffaloes in the water then the
best time to come is in the afternoon when they go for a little swim because afterwards they're
going to go back on their little buffalo island look at these pictures they turn up quite nice
and we got little souvenirs that was nice look at how happy i look it's like you're
they actually did turn out really well because we didn't know what she was doing she came over to
it was maybe security or something or for safety reasons they want us know who goes out but when
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bye bye bye this is so nice i'm gonna hang them in my house hey isn't it your birthday this weekend
no you can have my photo have a birthday no this is not expensive enough
bloopers first when you walk in you go into this wooden house with indoor first
one you get first when you walk in you go into the wooden house with indoor seating
hi it's me note i'm here to save the day because floor is having trouble vlogging today
we are at this beautiful coffee shop in the middle of the rice field surrounded by buffaloes birds
and coconut trees buffaloes cows cows and buffalos how's that very good yeah let's eat
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