If you saw our last video than you know, we're getting ready to go on another big trip. If you haven't... SURPRISE! (Noah: Surprise!)
So as part of that process of getting ready we want to start clearing out these hard drives of old memories that no one has
Ever seen all these weird experiences. Yeah, one of the first ones that needs to go and be dusted off is our
2015 excursion into the some people call it a ghost city, but it's the capital city of Naypyidaw, Myanmar
Noah: it was totally weird Lynn: it was bizarre
The Camps: enjoy, enjoy
But first, let's add a little context to the story...
After spending a week in Mandalay resting up from a road trip that took us through the Northern part of the country
We decided to continue the cultural acid trip by heading south along the way. We saw all [sorts] of interesting things
Including a guy carrying a motorbike on his motorbike, people dancing around in an elephant costume to raise money ,over loaded trucks
Murderous bus drivers, and what looked to be a mile-long funeral procession. needless to say we were never bored
Anyway, after about 10 hours on our 120 CC
motorbikes we rolled up on the outskirts of arguably the strangest city either of us had ever been to
all right, we're kind of on the final approach into Naypyidaw and
right away
we're confronted with the sight of a
vast Expanse of what looks to be
mostly Empty housing
There's a couple guys in front of me in the distance, but other than that everything here is like overgrown
and derilict. Like not being used at all. already this place is just [oh]
Wait, basically everything in any of these
there's literally people living in shacks and starving [and] then there's
our hotel
Thoroughly creeped out right now
There's no people there's lots of big long roads that leave this little square
This is going to be a really [interesting] experience. I'm either going to be really [well] creeped out [dad]
Dad everything in between
waiting yeah
all the above
so
long Day
it's
It's going to be an experience
We got a loss a little bit and one of the biggest
Deserted megalopolises on the planet this creepy facility with no lights on is our hotel
That looks good biting. Yeah looks inviting and then there's construction right next to it uh-huh oh
Weird this is I'm so weirded out right now. [creep]. Most [pre]. [positive]. I feel more alone now than I ever have
Yeah, look very the hugging Mongolia. There's a hotel there nobody's there the lights aren't on the lights aren't on
Okay, there's some people
But this is it
This is our freaking hotel looks abandoned
[146] rounds and notice that there was only five left on it goes. Oh yeah, so this is our creepy ass hotel
Here we go
Yeah, look the jade right there. Oh my gosh
Jade City Hotel
I'm so freaked out right now that reception know where the receptionist
No, that's not reception, okay?
There's nobody freaking in here
Oh my God are we staying here
So as we said at the beginning of the video maybe tells the capital of Myanmar, and it was moved. I believe in
2005 [moved] 2005 from
Yangon, which is highly populated to hear you maybe Thai, which is basically kind of very desolate
area that I don't think many [people] even in Myanmar knew about
Is just super weird yeah it felt like mmM
It's like a movie set if burma was to create a movie set what las vegas looks like this was [Mrs.] it
Yeah, okay, and they say they claim [that] a million people live here. I've read that figure, but based on our experience
I really really don't believe that
so we're staying in that slightly more inviting building right there with the lights on and
It looks like they
they just turned on the side I
have to say this is the
one of the weirdest places I've ever been
bar none this very very bizarre and
Creepy, I don't know what else is [this]
Thank you
Yes, right there [would] be very few options [for] me here
it's not hannah's [plane] is [besides] they say of
24
Manhattan and
Because we're tourists but keep you
It's called a hotel zone, and there's three hotels and we're in hotel them one name
Isn't monstrous and far away from out of town area?
Yeah, we went back over to the big hotel after dropping off our stuff to eat
And it was really funny because it was like a [five-alarm] emergency because we were literally only people in the entire place
They didn't really know what to do with this
So the girl behind the desk is like frantically dialing the phone in the kitchen upstairs tear it as we walk down
All hands on deck of course you calling somebody's a little bit [overcoming] because [nobody's] here. We're going to be a little warmer
Yeah could be second floor
Hello
This is it right [here]
oh
Anywhere anymore you want to sit?
So the prices are not actually too bad well that's breakfast let's get to the dinner
Why is there so many things that worries me?
To be [late] too many items means, it's just in a disgusting freezer somewhere
Let's go with something that you said like soup or [whatnot] [and] something
kind of
[yeah]
We're just helping ourselves to cook there's nobody here. We could totally run amok in this place
And I doubt anything would happen so after 10 hours on the bike seeing the craziest things I've ever seen
Being in this hotel now being exhausted and totally delirious. [I] just had to cringe it out
It was just perfect. I [danced] it out of my body and just go crazy and it made me feel a little bit better
Yeah
it was a good way to kind of shake off the weird way and of being completely isolated from
Everything basically there [is] people there, but I felt I've never really felt isolated as foreigners. I felt very alone at that moment
And so what do you do you just laugh it off, and you go nice. They're calling now [a] big excuse on camera
well, maybe it's
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