just before we explore nakhon sawan behind me is dreamy now in the last video she died she was a
goner and i left a little bit of a cliffhanger because i didn't know what was going to happen
it took four days but she's back in action and so just before we explore nakhon sawan if you're
interested there's a short segment here of the exact reason what happened to dreamy how did she
die how did we resurrect her and i'll let you know as well that this is a few days in advance
and she's already broken down three times more since then okay we are in a few more provinces
north you'll see this unfold she's definitely the tantrum queen and she has a lot more toys
to throw out the pram in the future and definitely throughout the rest of this trip so anyway enough
rambling let me explain to you what happened to dreamy and how we fixed her and then we are going
to explore the beautiful province of nakhon sawan behave yourself dreamy enjoy the video
okay so behind me is dreamy and um the engineer the mechanic i should say has
worked out what the issue is and through a lot of google translate text conversations
we've isolated or i've learned what the isolation problem was so
what happened at some point during my 600 kilometer drive from the south to chiangnat
a couple of days ago now i had an oil leak unbeknownst to me and um the oil completely
dried out however the engine kept working for a while right it worked about an extra day
however because there was no oil in the engine it blew up the piston head this is the piston head
and um holding it you can see a lot of damage to it um and uh it's bent
and it's it seems to have exploded and damaged it completely catastrophically and this is deep
within the engine and a 27 year old honda dream piston head is not the easiest of part to replace
and repair in the middle of nowhere maybe this would be like a one-day thing um in bangkok
however here in the middle of thailand in the middle of nowhere on the side of the highway at
this random mechanic shop it's taken three days there's also other engine parts that have broken
surrounding this piston head multiple engine parts have snapped have broken and are completely
messed up he's adding some oil into that he's sourced all the parts and uh he says he's still
not finished he still needs another day he says tomorrow morning he's gonna work through the night
not all night but he's gonna work till quite late tonight and finish it early in the morning so that
i can leave i am going to be paying him extra whatever he charges me um unless it's completely
over the top expensive i will give him a nice tip because we've been here three days tomorrow will
be four days and the trip needs to continue and i really want dreamy to survive i did think she
was a goner especially when i found out about the piston head situation and loads of engine parts
scattered on the floor i mean there's so many scratches inside this thing this is completely
messed up man and i my man here he helped me so much he's the guy who rescued me on the first time
so jamie's looking a bit naked today i look at her and um
i'll let her get fixed and hopefully tomorrow morning she's ready to roll
whatever
hello and welcome to downtown nakhon sawan now behind me over here that is the naan
river obviously it comes through the province of naan it branches out from the mere kong on
the border of laos and behind me in this direction is the ping river which flows through chiang mai
all the way down through central thailand to here and the naan and the ping combined together
right here into the chao payao i got that wrong bollocks to start the source of the chao praya
river which is the giant huge river that flows all the way to the ocean and obviously through bangkok
and this is the source of it right here let's go down and let's um dip our little toe
there we go and actually here on this side oh yep okay now we can walk we are now on the ping river
and then we come over this side
oh the nine river the nine rivers flooding the path is covered in water there must be more water
coming down from nan province compared to ping and i think that's actually because according
to the news there are lots of storms in the east and north of thailand and you can actually
see that this river is swelling compared to the ping but then they combine and go straight down
to the chow player and they've built this really interesting structure which we'll check out now
to commemorate the source of the river and to commemorate the joining of the two rivers
to join into the chao playa and uh looks kind of interesting so let's go take a closer look
so inside you can see that it's all made of wood and i've not been in an interactive art
piece like this it's almost like a sculpture that you can climb on explore you can hear kids up the
top i think this will be a fun place to come with the family and just see the expression
and the design that's gone into this looking at it from the drone footage i can't tell
what they're basing the design on but it kind of from some angles looks like a baleen whale but
now that i'm in yeah i mean i kind of feel like i'm inside of bailey and whale's mouth because
you know the um what do they call the teeth in a baleen whale i think they're called baleens
i think that's why they're called bailing whales i'm not sure but the um these metal bars that come
along and go along the the entire innards kind of feels like the the mouth of moby dick right
and uh no maybe nick is a sperm whale damn it um anyway you know what i'm talking about
right and then you know like now we've been swallowed we're going into the belly
and we're going to get pooped out on the other side and let's go left so yeah this is fun a nice
interactive sculpture a nice thought-provoking art piece which is rare to find and something
i wasn't expecting to see in a province of nakhon sawan actually at the top here you can
walk on to the top and oh there was actually yeah
there's an entrance at the top here almost like going into the blowhole
it seems like a thai family has been eaten we're all been swallowed by the whale and we're in there
in the head we're not in the mouth we're in the head we've climbed up the blower hole
and now we're searching for knowledge in the brain of the animal
and i just think we're seeking shelter because it's actually lunchtime it's boiling our ears
and across the um the naan riverside there is a temple which is obviously at the start of the
chao praiya river almost looks like a chinese temple and what's interesting is there is a
statue of a crocodile and then they have a slide and there's water going i don't think people slide
down that i think they must buy some sort of ornament or some blessing and then pop it into
the slide and it goes into the river a little bit like loi kratong festival in thailand in november
but um must be something significant with that particular type of buddhism in that particular
temple but um we're not gonna go over there we're gonna head into the town behind now
and check out a little bit of the city um the whole town actually kind of feels like it's
made of spare parts it's completely run down it's not a pretty little place i have to say
just driving through it the whole place looked like somebody dropped it down the stairs um so
we'll have a little snoop around i think there's a little temple on a hill somewhere we'll go see
if that's possible but then we're gonna go up to the mountain in the north of the province and um
enjoy sunset as you can see i'm sweating buckets absolute bucket
this is a pretty part of the town
and you can see that mountain in the distance there is a giant temple on the top of that looks
beautiful it's called wat kiriwang if kiri wang rings a bell it's because it's the name of a town
in the province of nakhon si tamara i went there with my buddy sam and it was absolutely beautiful
and it's just started to rain but that's okay we'll keep going up to the top
i don't know if we're gonna be able to drive up there i hope so
and there is an airport just down the road from here so i don't think we'll be able to fly the
drone up there which is so unfortunate because it looks gorgeous but maybe we'll get lucky
rain's getting a little heavier
quite heavier now
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okay um the rain stopped straight away which is great and um it's clearly the air the visibility
in this direction is incredible and just look how flat this area of thailand is um the
few and far between hills and mountains and things they just kind of stick about the ground
really randomly there aren't no mountain ranges here we're in the flat rice p
rice field plains as they call it this temple is something isn't it look at this behind me here
and the highest point of the town again just this little hill in the center and they plopped a
beautiful golden temple just like they seem to do everywhere in south east asia they find the
most difficult looking steepest mountain and say that's where we're going to build an epic temple
poor workers must be like can't we just build it down by the river where it's really easy to
transport the materials and then just build it there no no must go to the highest point
must be the most difficult actually i just take back everything i just said because
this mountain's in that direction there's a big old mountain range in that direction
where's that then that just must be a random mountain range that popped out of the ground
to contradict everything i say this particular temple is completely littered with all types of
buddha statues every single variation you can think of you've got the serpent headed one the
standing one the lying down the sitting and the just every type of buddha statue and then they
have these really nice gold and white and this is a great view of the city and you can see the
lake there seems like a park in the lake there's a distant golden sitting buddha that looks gorgeous
and um trying to see where we were earlier but i can't see it okay the bells ringing in the wind
it's very peaceful and you've got to be careful when you come up here because every temple
in thailand has these really slippery tiles they are gorgeous tiles with the buddhist wheels on but
um yes make sure you don't slip and break your ankle it's a good way to ruin your day this
must be the connection i'm thinking because kiri wong was in nakhon si tamarat and also in nakhon
si tamara was the [ __ ] temple the temple where there was the story of the lucky boy
and people would come and give him a [ __ ] a cockerel statue and wish for good fortune and
here that even the staircases are completely covered in the [ __ ] and um here's a king
one of the old dynasty kings and he seems to be surrounded by [ __ ] so not quite sure of the
the the meaning there because it's not the little boy that we saw in nakhon si tamarat
maybe they're not completely linked it might be completely different i'm not sure let me know
in the comments if you know more about thai history than i stunning absolutely stunning
i will try to fly the drone but no promises
and we're actually going to call it a day early on this video as you can see and as
i mentioned earlier i was heading towards that distant mountain a little bit further up in the
province of nakhon sawan in order to climb to the top and reveal the best sunset however the climb
turned into well a very interesting experience to say the very least and so i think it deserves its
own video so stay tuned for the next episode where we climb this mountain and uh it is one not to be
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climb and everything that happened on the way down anyway i really hope you enjoyed the nakhon sawan
video one more to come from this province and then we're moving up into more of the center and the
northern provinces of thailand so stay tuned to the next episode of next level adventures
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