hi guys and welcome back to she's wonderful we are currently on a road trip to discover more unseen
parts of thailand last week we drove from nakhon si tamura to songpla that's how i used to go to
school i was one of the cool kids you probably haven't heard of it as it is not a popular
destination to visit as historically there have been ongoing conflicts in the four southernmost
provinces that sit near the malay border however things are changing and suncloth is becoming an
up-and-coming travel destination for more young adventurous ties and for today's adventure we
are taking you to see the famous golden mermaid statue everybody knows the mermaid statue of song
class and show you what kinds of things local thais like to do at the popular samila beach
to start our day we decided to try out this camp coffee stand but we ran into a little problem
now this wheel stuck
no more sunny days
so it started when he came here and camping with his friends
and then he started making coffee and now the friends love it and wanted to pay for
it so he got an idea why don't i just set up a coffee shop here
and ask the permission of the city to use this spot and now he has his camping coffee shop
my coffee
coffee is really good they're really busy people just keep coming in the thing is
even though there's a lot of people and it takes them a while to make each coffee
but when you're here you're not like rushing to get the coffee because it's so
open it's so refreshing to just sit here it definitely feels like you're camping
and you're never rushed when you're camping you just sit there and enjoy it and they're
actually all musician friends this is just a hobby so they only open from 1pm to 5 p.m and after that
they go to a bar and play live music at the bar at 8pm that is super cool oh like just having this
awesome lifestyle with your friends that's amazing special drink for helping him out pushing his car
oh that's so nice look at that logo oh my god did you notice that is it the same it's um it's pretty
close the tree is on the other side but it's the same tree or we have a moon they don't have
what a coincidence i didn't even notice their logo they drew it on the cup with a sharpie really
i didn't do any work but i just sat here and talked to my camera strawberry soda
the beach itself is beautiful but there is more than just the beach around here we see tons of
people riding ponies what else we see oh lots of kids flying kites yes i haven't seen that in
so long we haven't flown a kite for wolf since i was little oh can't even remember primary school
we should get a kite yeah i think we should do that and there's also a lot of local food vendors
here you don't have to bring any food to the beach to have a picnic you basically can rent a mat you
can get the food here there's even vendors that walk around with different drinks and different
snacks for you to buy so you don't even have to leave your mat that's actually the first time i've
ever seen that in thailand yeah look cool this one is a horse yeah that's
oh interesting so it's a hunky a hunky yes
no it's touching them when those guys are distracted with the lottery
this is amazing look at all the families gathered here
right now it's actually almost sunset like 5 p.m and there are tons of families with kids here
life feels pretty normal around here this is what childhood is all about just enjoying the outdoors
playing in the sun playing at the beach with your friends not with your ipads it's so nice
to see this many local people coming out and just enjoying themselves like we haven't seen
something like this for the last six months when we live on cosmo so that's how open hello
this is so beautiful we should get a bigger one i think a hundred bucks i kind of like this yellow
one the butterfly okay let's get this one okay should we random actually it's 20 baht each slice
outside
i feel like a kid again this is amazing
i think in general thai people don't like to be in the sun and they don't want to get
tanned so this beach is perfect because there's so much shade there's so many trees you can see
that it's hard to find a spot under the tree but it's easy to find a spot if you're on the beach
do you need help i got it you got it i got it i feel i feel like you need help
there's so many so much going on here okay i'll help you one two three four
yeah is the sun and it shines is it open where your heart is the sun
and it shines says it open yeah your heart is
it's so stable you want me to run do you really need to run
yeah i'm gonna knock his kite out okay go get his kite
flora's trying to knock that kind of poor kid
careful oh don't be careful
you almost got him i told you i wasn't joking i was gonna knock his kite out
so that's the famous mermaid statue of songkla you can see people lining up to take a photo there
the mermaid statue is one of the most popular statue in thailand actually oh really yeah i
think everybody knows the mermaid statue of songkran and there's like a little pool over
here where you see lots of kids swimming because it's shallow it makes me so happy to see so much
action happening at this beach the interesting thing is nobody wants to sit on the sand
this part is completely empty even now look around babe we're the only ones sitting in the sun
no one else is setting their picnic here everyone else is in the shade
under the trees over there and look at what i'm wearing i'm wearing like long pants but i don't
feel out of place at all because most people here are wearing like full on going out clothes
i think i over dress if you take off your shirt they're gonna be like what is he doing
to be honest if you look around no one is wearing beach clothes like me i wonder if it's because
it's like a muslim population here is so big that like they don't wear revealing clothes at
the beach could be when i first saw the horses or the ponies i was kind of thinking oh it's kind of
like a gimmicky like not a lot of people would ride them right but no like there's so many kids
on this beach all riding ponies good business for them i wonder how much it costs poor ponies though
i hope
foreign riding into the sunset with a bag of
it has been an awesome day there's so much to do still
you need at least like three days to discover the whole song
oh it's actually kind of ugly and close uh close up but it's pretty nice far away
colbert you know what's so cool the sun is setting over here
but then you can already see the moon on that side so beautiful
what do you mean how high you can go because there's like a military
space here i saw helicopters flying around i don't want to hit the helicopter you're so used to drone
get it up higher
oh oh crap don't tie it back
you