i feel like the world has this place completely wrong it's known as just a
party destination but it's so much more than that
we're lloyd and mandy we've been traveling full-time for the past six months searching
for the perfect place to live as digital nomads we're currently in thailand and
have just left koh samui to spend a few days exploring the island of copenhagen
where we will be finding out if there's more to this island than just a full moon party
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so as you probably know we're here during the rainy season in Thailand
but usually it only rains for about 20 to 30 minutes if it is going to rain
it does look like a storm's about to hit us now but we've been pretty lucky with the weather so
we aren't complaining so Thailand's only just recently opened up to tourism and like a lot of
places it's still really quiet hoping yang is no exception it's fairly quiet here we're spending
a few days here on Koh Phangan just to check out what it's like when tourism is at an all-time low
hello hello
mandy's had honestly 10 dogs come up to her today I'm in heaven I don't know what it is today
it's my energy I'm happy here so they're gravitating to me mandy already wants to move here
guilty
so we think they must do shows here or something in regular times because there's this huge
like stadium type setting i'm not sure what it's for but it's pretty cool
and this waterfall is incredible
finally happened had a real blowout tongs are done
can't fix that so I'm going barefoot for the rest of the day
so we really wanted to come here to prove to ourselves that this place is so much more than
just a full moon party it really has everything mountains amazing cafes you got waterfalls
dogs everywhere beaches this place even has jiu-jitsu and yoga which is a big thumbs up
for us and cannabis is actually becoming legal here soon so this might be home
oh my goodness I cannot believe we just had that entire thing to ourselves that whole time there's
still no one here it's about 11 o'clock and there's still no one here it's like a massive
adult playground so much to see so much to do this place really does have it all, yeah this is one
of the benefits of travelling um I guess it's a low season because of the monsoon season but also
sort of still post covered only really finished up a couple of months ago here but
it's definitely worth coming oh my goodness this place has exceeded my expectations
we've just arrived at coma island which you can only access when the tide is low
which is right now so we're going to see if we can walk out there
oh my god we've just walked out to coma island and we have the entire thing to ourselves right now
I can't believe there's no one here it's not a perfect day but it's not too bad
no that's probably why we have it to ourselves honestly but it's so worth it oh my god
yeah this one it's got everything
although it's been really good travelling uh Bali and Thailand while it's really quiet I can't help
but think what it would be like during normal times or peak season it'd be really good to see
all these places thriving yeah we've been really lucky to experience all these places
sort of in a unique time when they're not so busy but you can't help but like sort of
crave that vibe of having like other people around even though we're quite introverted
and don't converse with that many other people usually it's still nice to have
like other people's energies and like the excitement of there being a crowd around
um so i think we really need to come back and revisit a lot of these places when things are
up and going again something about walking into a restaurant or a bar when there's a lot of other
people in there just feels like a different vibe when there's never anyone around it's a little bit
there's not much incentive to leave the house if it's just the two of you
always yeah I think you get a vibe from being around other people
absolutely i think um the people are the essence of a place yeah a certain place like it usually
attracts a certain type of person and when there are no people around that sort of the essence of
being somewhere is gone so definitely a really this is top of my list for somewhere i want to
revisit when things are pumping again because i love it here so I've just come to this food
court and it's got food pretty much from all over the world and i don't think we're able to
wait until we get to Vietnam we saw bonnie's and we decided to get one they look really really good
I'm gonna eat this
all right we're gonna have to go on a hunt to find Lloyd some new shoes because he's
barefoot in the market right now
yeah exactly you're so cute you like the camera
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we've just arrived at a place called the Amsterdam bar which is apparently the best
place to watch the sun set up and we haven't seen the sun all day but now it's only just
peaked out now for sunset which is awesome so we're gonna go grab a beer and watch it
me
i went from London to Mexico
cause i had heard them speak of the changes that you've seen i went from London to Mexico
cause these admirers never closed when we're speaking down the farm
left it all to start
the again again
still lost in that sticker
i honestly don't know how Lloyd's gonna get me to leave this place
as if it couldn't get like better than yesterday we got some beautiful weather
to wake up to this morning and the beach has just been amazing the water's so warm
it's such a dreamy place i feel so fortunate to be here
it's true
so we're just driving over to the east side of the island through the mountains basically
and i can't believe how different it feels up here we're like way up in the hills
there's statues of deer over here there must be deer in the in the wild somewhere i hope we see
some uh we just drove past a property that had three elephants on it i'm not too sure what the
deal is there if it's a sanctuary or some type of zoo yeah we might look it up before we like if we
go there on the way back maybe um but we don't want it to be like a not a good nice place for
them to be yeah so we might do a bit of research before we check that out but we're just heading
towards the beach on the east side and see if we can find somewhere for breakfast hey guys we
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we've just come over to the east side of the island at a beach called thong knight high yay
thong knight pan yay it looks like a bit of a ghost town
we came to the food court here which had really good reviews but nothing's open one
thing that's been hard to sort of witness while we've been traveling the last six months is
how many of these businesses rely on tourism and they've just gone out of business obviously or
things haven't picked back up yet and um they're all closed down and it's pretty sad to see
actually yeah we're hoping that by sharing our travels will help inspire other people
to pack their bags again and come to places like this to start filling these restaurants up again
all these businesses that have been doing this for decades and um tourism is being taken away if
you're thinking about traveling these businesses and these families could really use their support
so this beach where we're staying is called hard rain
i have no idea i never know this is where the full moon parties happen as you can see it's pretty
quiet now because there's no full moon we're lucky enough to get upgraded to a beachfront room which
is pretty cool yeah it's so beautiful it's so nice doing yoga and running on the beach this morning
kopiang seems to have a lot more of an island feel to it i think that's why i love it so much
i crave that feeling the whole no worries no shoes bikini on all the time that's very much my vibe
yeah i'm wearing no shoes not by choice though yeah after the last couple years of everything
that's been going on we've really wanted to find a place to escape sort of all the [ __ ] that goes
on um this seems like a really good place to do that yeah just there's not as much hustle and
bustle um driving around the roads are really good there's a lot of cars but there's not much traffic
no one seems to really bother you it's just a really chill vibe here yeah it's been the best
place for renting a scooter and touring the island if you're someone who wants to come and
have like a chill sort of holiday or experience then this is probably the best place that we've
been to there's so much to do here but you can also just lay by the beach and drink a coconut
chilling out hopefully people can watch this video and want to come to copenhagen for other
reasons than just the full moon party we hope you guys have enjoyed this video don't forget to hit
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