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well hello friends
i am so excited for today's video
because we will be seeing
some of the most famous attractions here
in bangkok
like the grand palace the amazing
temples
and end our night on khao san road i'm
already a week
into being in bangkok and i'm surprised
that i'm only now
going to see these places but as with
most cities main tourist attractions
sure they can be overpriced sure they
can be you know a little bit cheesy
sometimes
but they are still worth doing i hear
the grand palace is absolutely stunning
so i am super excited to go there but if
you do come to bangkok another thing
that you absolutely should do
is take a boat ride which is what we
will be doing this morning
you get a really great view of the city
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so i'm just on the outskirts of the
grand palace but because
i know i'm gonna be spending like three
or four hours in there
i thought i would fuel up first so i
went to this little
cafe and i got a basil chicken dish
with a fresh passion fruit and mango
soda
and then i should be all good to go
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okay this
is beyond words
i have never been
anywhere quite like this before
and what makes it even crazier
is just the fact that there's next to no
one here i feel like i almost have this
whole place to myself
i was watching a few uh vlogs of the
grand palace uh by some youtubers last
night
and from their videos like this place
is usually just packed completely packed
with tourists so it feels
like i just rented this place out to
myself or something it's just
insane
absolutely every visitor to bangkok must
make a visit
to the grand palace complex
it was established in 1782 and covers an
area of 218 000 square meters
it is the former residence for king rama
the first to king
of the fifth and the complex is divided
into two main zones
which is the temple of the emerald
buddha and the royal residence
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while you are not allowed into the
palace itself
there are just so many different
beautiful buildings on the grounds that
you're able to take pictures or videos
of
but just keep in mind that they do have
a strict dress code
because of the temples so just make sure
you are wearing something that covers
your arms
and legs and the entrance for foreigners
is 500 baht which is approximately 20
canadian dollars
oh my god a sense of equilibrium has
returned
because i did sit in that uh cafe for
about half an hour
i drank a mango and passion fruit juice
i do feel so much better
and it's about 3 30 now so the grand
palace actually did just close
and now i'm going to head to the
reclining buddha temple which is
actually right in the vicinity
of the grand palace as well and
depending on how long
it takes i may actually try to go see
what arun
which is another beautiful temple that's
across the water
and then we'll go to khao san road but
my god you guys
i am going to be spent at the end of
today
so here i am in what foe
and it is stunning obviously
but funny thing that happened when i was
purchasing my ticket
is they told me that i needed to wear
this
this dashing fashion skirt uh
which is surprising because at the
palace they didn't say anything about my
outfit i guess it was okay
but here i guess i'm indecent and
literally as i'm saying that
there's a girl walking past with bare
shoulders
so um prejudice prejudice but
nevertheless i'm excited to be here
i guess they close at 5 30 so i actually
only have about an
hour to walk around the whole complex i
hope that's enough time
i think maybe in these coveted times
they do have shorter hours
so i'm thinking that what a rune i'll
actually save for another video
and tonight we'll just do supper at some
nice thai place
and hit up khao san road watfo
is another must see for any trip to
bangkok and it is actually very close to
the grand palace
basically takes just 10 minutes to walk
from one to the other
and while watfo does have one main large
attraction that i will show you guys in
just a minute
the complex itself with its numerous
stupas
is just absolutely stunning in and of
itself
and surprisingly enough is one of the
best places
to get a traditional thai massage
because
in non-coveted times there is a school
that operates here
that specializes in that property so if
you ever do come
to watfo try and get a traditional thai
massage once again it is
eerily quiet in here
maybe like a dozen or two dozen people
in this whole
complex like it's just
i don't think this has ever ever
happened
outside of any other time other than
covid
from all the youtube vlogs that i
watched of this place it was completely
packed in every single temple
maybe not so much in rainy season or
something like that but
this is on another level all right guys
are you ready for it
are you ready for it i don't think
you're ready for it
because as soon as i walked into the
temple
of the reclining buddha
i was absolutely awestruck
at just how gigantic
it really was in real life the statue
itself
is 46 meters long and its feet
are covered in beautiful mother of pearl
illustrations
i was just in complete awe of this
complex and it had such a beautiful
tranquil energy i think they did such a
great job
with how they built the grounds and
where they put everything
thailand does have such a beautiful and
distinct
architecture style to it and i feel like
these two complexes that i saw today
were some of the best examples of it
that i have seen before
so i am spent i definitely need to get
some food in me
and since i want to go to khao san road
it's about a 30 minute walk but i'm too
tired for that
i think it's time for us to take
our first tuck tuck
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wow here we are the famous
khao san road backpacker
and party paradise i mean sure
it's about 5 30 6 o'clock it's still
pretty early for this place to be
bustling
but i have a deep suspicion
that that's probably not going to be the
case of course there's probably
an 80 to 90 percent reduction
of uh tourism in thailand right now
because it is said that bangkok itself
is one of the most visited cities in the
world
usually they attract around 15 million
people
per year so not only are they missing
the actual masses
of tourists because they have such
strict restrictions
to get into bangkok but the other
important thing to note
is that the people who are coming and
doing the quarantine
are most likely not backpackers
most people who are on a budget and who
are
choosing to travel right now are most
likely
not going to want to shell out fifteen
hundred
two thousand dollars for a quarantine
and i guess in a way that's probably
what the thai government wants
where they want the people who are
willing to spend a lot more money
to be the tourists that are coming in
right now
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yeah well that was khao san road my
friends
um it is currently out of commission
so i wouldn't recommend coming there
until uh
tourist season is back but i have found
a
really nice looking thai restaurant uh
on google maps
it's about a 10 minute walk away fairly
close to the pier so i'll probably just
take the boat back when i'm finished
but i really really really really hope
it's open
now this road looks a little bit better
at least the restaurants are quite
decent looking but once again nobody
here
completely empty
all right we are here hemlock
apparently they are a restaurant that
has been around since
1994 and their thai food is supposed to
be
super authentic really delicious so
let's give it a try
all right guys to start us off i got a
spicy
papaya salad which looks super good
um for anyone who hasn't had it before
it's usually unripened
papaya with carrot i think actually
that's a little bit of tomato
um no big big red chili peppers because
i told her my spice level wasn't awesome
so just a little bit of spice and some
peanuts and spices
it's super tasty and then the main dish
that i got is pad cu
which is a different kind of noodle dish
than just your regular sort of pad thai
but i decided to get the vegetarian
version where it has some cabbage
some kale i think there's some basil in
there tofu
but yeah i'm a big fan of pad cu and
they give you
some lime and some extra spice if you
like
but i can definitely tell why this place
is very well rated
well that was a fantastic meal
and the lady who works there somehow i
have a feeling she's
the owner or the lady in charge was so
nice
so sweet and she gives me a discount
on my food like it was i think for
the main the salad the beer the water
whatever it came to
300 baht and that's like 12
canadian dollars and then she gave me
like an extra
40 baht off i don't know why but anyway
i mean
i left 100 as a tip which is like you
know four or five dollars
because like seriously these people you
know are working so hard
have so few customers right now if you
come here like please tip big
if you had good service because we need
to keep these businesses going
it's just such a difficult time for them
but i think that's
it guys um i'm just walking back to
the boat harbor i am
tired i am sticky
and need of a shower so i hope you
enjoyed this video because i really had
the most spectacular day
the temples today were just like out of
this world it was even better
than uh i imagined even just watching
the videos seeing it in person was just
on a whole other level so let me know in
the comments if you guys have ever been
to bangkok
what your experience was this is
definitely a city
that has really impressed me so far so
i'm super excited
to continue to explore the rest of the
country
so thank you guys so much for tuning in
hope you're having a great day
and as always keep being your own kind
of beautiful bye guys
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