hello and welcome to downtown trang this is an old town the capital city of the province of
trang deep in southern thailand the town itself is gorgeous there's loads of pretty little buildings
and cute little restaurants and cafes including this gorgeous little church here but you know our
style we like to get on the honda go outside of the city limits push out into the countryside and
see what we can find and i think that's what we're going to do today there's a high chance of rain
there's a thick humidity to the air so i think we're gonna get rained on let's hope we don't
let's just push outside of the city limits let's go see what we can find let's
explore this beautiful city in this beautiful province of trang are you ready okay let's go
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cute little doggie
can you hear the storm so just 15 minutes out of downtown on the main highway heading south
is the botanical gardens and as you can see absolutely rampant
and i just went to the lovely lady at the reception there and i said oh how
much is it and then as i was saying that i was like i don't have any cash
she said it's free so that's good i just had to do the screening you know check the temperature and
sign your name and everything and have a look it looks quite nice i've just parked the bike
and hopefully it doesn't rain when we're going the lady was like you know it's gonna piss down
and i'm like i hope it doesn't so there's a nature trail there's an auditorium and then
there's a canopy walk which sounds awesome i mean you can't go wrong if it's completely free even if
we do get pissed done so have a look so what's the situation coming here that's the car park where
are we i don't know do you ever look at those things i don't so let's just let's just go in
now in my experience anything that's free in thailand is normally pretty meh wow look at this
belief this thing is massive i'm like a mad geek when it comes to giant leaves look at this thing
i mean if it rains we'll just come under here we'll just be like oh yeah it's raining yeah no
where is love got massive leaf oh little lizard hello little lizard you want to see the lizard
so i beat her oh
i'm loving this so what we're going to do is there's a three kilometer nature trail
and uh so we're here and it goes up and it goes up and it goes up but then it turns into this
cool canopy walk and then it looks like we go over a swamp and then we come back so that sounds fun
and a three kilometer walk get your steps in why am i doing this are you even a travel vlogger if
you don't film yourself walking right oh my gosh transitioning to another area and here we are
wow look at this tree okay just check for snakes
look at this tree
i wish you could see the scale of this thing but this is easily 40 to 50 meters up
guys listen if i just walk quietly through you can hear all the birds the rumbling of the thunder
the rustling of leaves because little lizards and things are moving around
it's really cold
oh it's shaking can you see
and it's made of metal interesting choice of material in a place where it's going to rain
and rust and it is literally rusting so i mean one day this is going to snap and we're in the canopy
look whoo we're not on the tippity top let's say we're like level 3 of a 10 story building but
still cool you can actually grab and touch things and feel the textures of the leaves and watch this
see that moving
this thing is like gonna snap one day oh it does go higher okay that's good
definitely mind your head if you were tall you might split your forehead open here
oh down there it was cooler but then when we got to the understory layer started to get really
sweaty now we're clearly in the canopy wow this is like almost at the emergent right at the very top
of the level of the forest but just just below in the canopy level here and this is an interesting
experience when would you ever be able to feel the top of the trees in the jungle like this and
and see what's living up here and see the bugs and see the you know and feel the humidity like
it is unbelievable it's like being in a storm no it's like being in a steam room it is unbelievable
the sweatiness up here and it's just you know the moisture just collects on the leaves and
everything just lives up here in perfect harmony so much food so much fruit so much moisture
wow it kind of reminds me of that scene in jurassic park you know where the car gets
stuck in the tree and then they have to quickly climb down before the car hits them like this is
exactly what it looks like yeah absolutely amazing experience here in trang province the canopy walk
just not hang on a second oh it's moving okay just move just go this is highest oh [ __ ]
oh god okay i'm gonna be brave and show you in a second just let me get to the
there was a bit there where it felt like it was gonna snap man right there it started to feel like
there was nothing underneath me and i mean we're not messing about up here we're 70 meters up here
you know these are huge trees and we're we're level with them now look we're we're not way up
there wow but we know we're on the canopy for sure what does it say here a bunch of thai stuff canopy
yeah cool and then there's a there's a really cool tree here
oh i don't like it when i make noises so the whole time you like you know it's falling apart
you know it's ionizing and literally degrading and literally decomposing just like a mushroom
or a plant material this stuff is oxidizing and breaking and it's also holding us up i
can imagine if there was loads of people here everyone would be screaming as the bridge shake
it goes up even more two levels up up there
and up there and look we're already really high oh my gosh look at that
so comes with a height warning well don't look over the edge
jesus it does give you the willies actually
wow
hello rusty rusty thingy holding me up dirty as well
are we nearly finished don't want to get down
okay we're down into the swamp area now and uh i don't know if you can see very clearly because it
is literally almost pitch black down here my light is quite good in low light and uh you can see it's
probably showing quite bright but in reality it's like quite dark down here and it's two
o'clock in the afternoon so the light's getting blocked out by all of the trees and obviously
there's a big dark scary storm butter down here it's really swamp like i mean it's really wet
and uh swamp like i have not really practiced my adjectives when it comes to describing swamps
wet hot sticky incredibly beautiful oh my god freaking what oh there's thorns on the sides of
these great i think that could have been worse look at this one this is a spiky little bastard
guys i got absolutely soaked like i am completely
like you can feel look at that like whole body soaking wet the skies opened up
and sometimes this happens and we said at the beginning of this video we were gonna try
and hope that we weren't gonna get rained out but we did but don't worry it's not gonna be the
end of the video because i've got something really exciting um i saw this place near my hotel so i've
driven back to town and i saw it last night i said oh that looks nice and it looks so nice i've just
gone inside check the menu it's called lion's tail and it's right opposite my hotel it looks amazing
and i saw last night and i was like oh my god that looks lovely so i've just gone in looked at
the menu and they have amazing western food they have amazing thai fusion food and they've got thai
spirits and thai beers and it looks really really delicious and amazing so and actually tomorrow is
my birthday and i'm thinking i'm actually going to be on the road all day tomorrow going from this
province to the next province so i don't think i'm going to be able to treat myself tomorrow so let's
treat ourselves tonight let me take you out for my birthday we'll have dinner we'll have a few drinks
and then tomorrow yeah that'll be the end of the video but um i'll show you this place
looks amazing but i'm just gonna quickly go home have a shower get changed and put
some warm clothes on because i'm freezing cold wet and it's miserable and oh my god my bike
it's me it's paddy thank you paddy paddy paddy paddy do you have a can i just sit at the bar
i'm more of a bar sitting kind of guy ah the bartender says he's already ordered some food
for me he says he wants me to try something so this place is really nice okay wow so we
have locally caught trang crab meat and a mango avocado salad oh my gosh and uh let's start with
the crab meat just by itself this nice piece of a nice chunk of locally caught trying crab meat
it makes such a difference when it's caught here it's so fresh
unbelievable it tastes like the sea as well which i really like about crab
i really like fishy crab meat it just gives you that extra oomph and then you've got avocado and
big chunks of mango and then more crab meat and some red onion and cilantro or coriander on top
it's just so fresh like the avocado is super soft the mangoes are super sweet the crab meat is
super fresh there's chopped baby tomatoes in there a bit of a crunch from the red onion
and then a squeeze of lime on top this is fresh and this is delicious
wow this smells so citrusy oh my gosh
oh my god this cafe lime leaves on top then there's an edible flower here too how cute
a little droplets of candy
oh wow like there's little red candies on top so you have a really
sour hit with the citrus the egg white the gin he's also used like an apple in english apple gin
and then you've got the sweetness of the edible garnish
it's incredible smells amazing thank you
okay so the main course just arrived and it is um it is a big chunk of pork trang style pork soup
and it's uh it is just a monstrosity of meat okay so oh okay i can't even use my fork because it's
so soft but this is the size of the first piece of pork there's star in these and the first thing i
could smell when she came over with the food was the waff of hot cinnamon and fair enough there is
a huge piece of fresh cinnamon it bang in the middle of this bowl and then you've got
oh you've got giant mushrooms here three big mushrooms what's this
is this potato potato or some kind it's not potato but it tastes like hello
is this like a vegetable taro tallow oh it's talo
trang style uh
yeah sure yeah it's very original talo
this is a very local vegetable and it tastes a bit like a potato
and he even paired a really nice red wine from new zealand
he he chose this one because he said it was quite acidic because the dish itself
is very sweet he said it would be good to cut that sweetness with an acidic red wine
and he's spot on because you know it's not got an ashiness it's not got an earthiness
or a sweetness that's quite sharp red wine that's pinot pinot noir actually
i mean this is like a fine dining experience you know next to a duvet shop in the middle of town
thank you very much buddy that's really sweet of you oh my god what is this uh banana banana sister
oh banana fritters with custard and some ice cream and a little okay yeah
and then uh oh little oh look at these we have used to have these in england what are they called
i can't remember now but there was like a biscuit on the bottom okay so thank you for joining me on
my birthday thank you for watching my rainy day adventure here in trang province and i
really enjoyed the canopy walk that was a real surprise and thank you again to all
of your support watching the videos thanks to the members thanks to the patreons you literally have
saved this channel's ass and um good health and happiness to all of you and safe travels
wherever you may go next or wherever you are right now can i get a margarita for the row
one margarita cocktail yeah that's my favorite drink plastic classic margarita straight up
no sugar a little bit of um sugar like a little bit but not yeah like extra sour thank you oh