welcome back to another province this time in northern thailand we are in lampoon
it is a tiny little province in between chiang mai and lampang and it's home to some very quaint
northern thailand atmosphere including one of the most beautiful train stations i've ever seen
kuntan also this contain railway tunnel here behind me is stunning then we're going to go
explore more of this province just explore more of northern thailand before we head to
the big city of chiang mai so yeah enjoy this picture-perfect little province in northern
thailand and enjoy the video i think the train's coming so better get ready
so
any guesses to why we've come one and a half hours into the mountains
in lampoon any guesses because you're about to find out
if you guessed to watch a train come out of a tunnel in a scenic mountain
train track the answer would be yes
okay we made it we made it to kuntan train station it's directly in the middle between lampoon
and lampang and they have built this beautiful train track that actually goes from all the way
from chiang mai to bangkok this is the northern line normally there are about five or six trains
per day coming up and down this track and train enthusiasts and people who just like to
take pictures of trains and it's become quite popular because of this stunning brick tunnel
that they've built that mountain range that we just drove through and up and down on dreamy
this tunnel just goes straight through that and then spits you out towards lampang where we just
came from and it's really beautiful here it's really rustic and it's surrounded by a little
village here and you can see the people just going about their business i just spoke to the lads who
were working on the train track cleaning up the weeds and things and they said that the train that
was about to just arrive according to google was cancelled that was the chiang mai to bangkok train
they're only running once or twice a day instead of four or five times a day
but there is a local train coming from lampoon to lampang in about an hour so there is a little
cafe we'll get a little drink we'll just explore this train station a little bit and then hopefully
we'll film the local train coming along the track and into the tunnel i think that would be quite
cool because uh tie trains and high train tracks and systems are just so old school have a look at
all the ways that they control the the wires and the systems and the pulleys it's so interesting
how cool is this look these red and blue pulleys and they connect to these cables
and these cables go underneath here out onto the train track
underneath the two platforms and out on the other side and then they're down there by are
they actuators is that what they're called and obviously they help the trains switch
tracks because once they get past this train station there is only one track going north and
south so obviously if two trains are coming in opposite directions they must need to use these
pulleys to figure out how to pull these train tracks together i don't know how it works back
in the west uh are they electric now are they done by computers have the pulley and wire systems gone
or is train engineering so old school that they haven't modernized it let me know in the comments
if you're a trained buff is this a really cool thing or is this just normal because i don't know
this is the most beautiful train station i've ever been to look at this they've even got a
beautiful grave because it says it's in memory of emil eisenhofer civil engineer from 1879
he was born in munich and he died in 1962 in bangkok and he constructed the kuntan tunnel
okay he constructed this tunnel in 1914 to 1917 in service of the royal state railways of siam
siam is obviously thailand and there he is look strapping young man and um imran god
eisenhofer oh his wife she died and they buried her oh she's here so they buried them both here
at this train station in memory of their work to build this tunnel i'm sure they didn't build it
sure they got some uh thai and burmese to do it for them but they got all the glory didn't they
anyway look at this picnic tables and there's a shrine out here
this is this is beautiful
lots of wooden elephants here all different sizes all different types of detail
hand carved ones tiny little ones ones that seem to have been decorated by a kid loads of them
i really like the detail on their back see the spine really cool and then lots of flowers and
shrine offerings here and then this i think is the start of the trail up into the national park
and into the villages oh spiderweb okay so here we are at the mouth of the kuntan tunnel
and and i do remember whenever you get the night train to bangkok via chiang mai
quite soon after you do go through a lot of tunnels and this must be one of them
and you can hear the rain and the water moisture soaking through the rock through the bricks and
splashing onto the floor and they even have a gutter along here that seems to
be draining all of the river water rain water that's seeping through and it smells funky and
i can hear little squeaks of bats and things this is this is stunning this is really nice
that was lucky i was i'll just get the drone up just to save a look around and then the
conductor started coming onto the platform and they're like oh there's a train coming
so luckily my drone was in the air getting the shot completely by accident
oh there's people on it at the back just one carriage
and plenty of gas yeah look there's people on it just the one carriage
lots of uh transport boxes and then it looked like gas or some sort of liquid at the front
so i don't think this is the train that they told me that was coming at 11 because it's
only 20 past 10. but we got a nice shot and uh we've got to see a train come which is great
it is good to be back in the north the biggest difference from the south other than the fact
that obviously the south has the ocean is the temperature so you know it's a beautiful day
and down in the south i'm sure it's about 33 35 degrees today
but here and it feels like 26 27 which makes a massive difference i've just seen this bridge
and it's called the white bridge and it's way before the the tunnel we were
just at but i just wanted to come and have a look at it because it looks really nice
looks like a bit of an instagram spot yes beauty bloody beautiful i mean look at these mountains
oh my gosh lampoon behind this mountain range is the flatlands that leads up towards
chiang mai and then the lampoon itself is just a small little town guys it's just a small little
town on the way to chiang mai but it is its own province so we will stay here at night
and we will take it off the list and it's just nice to go to these places like lampang
and lampun and just sort of get that northern thailand vibe away from the hustle and bustle
of chiang mai where nothing against chiang mai obviously it's my second home but
i'm really digging these smaller more intimate northern thailand provinces to be honest
it might be time for that 11 o'clock train to pop through here soon
there's a big rumbling of a storm in the distance as well
so i hope i don't get caught in that on the way down to lampang lampoon i should say
oh there's a golf course oh
nice very nice that looks very fancy look at all the bunkers they're all like volcanoes
and i never knew this was here and you know we're talking like we're 45 kilometers from chiang mai
not far at all and i never came here what an idiot well now i'm here and so are you woohoo
okay welcome back and we are just west of lampoon town itself we'll go explore the old town at the
end now you might be thinking have you taken us to another ancient city paddy is this another ancient
ruin you've already taken us to campaign pair we went to sukkatai we know about the history
now can we go somewhere new um you'll be wrong actually because this isn't an ancient old city
all this terracotta sculpture work this incredible monument in the middle here surrounded by this
ginormous moat all of this is a coffee shop i'm not kidding you even this bamboo raft over the
water here which is extremely rickety and i don't trust it for a second all of this
is the work of someone at a coffee shop this is 100 new like less than 20 years old all of this
hand sculpted all the bricks laid the moat created just so
they can make a fancy coffee shop this place is called the terracotta garden so unbelievably it's
just a coffee shop and i went inside and it's grand inside as well beautiful decorations and
i ordered a cocoa and it was just amazing it was just full of cream and chocolate dark chocolate
and um i think it had a little bit of cream in there cherry liqueur wasn't alcoholic
it was just amazing and then had a little cherry on the top which was my favorite part
and let's go have a little look this is not ancient this is not historical this is purely
for instagram it's so interesting because right at the base of this well now this looks like it's
almost finished just next to it is the um you can see where it's the sculptures the sculptors
and the builders are basically uh living in their makeshift makeshift shaft and then here
35 kilometers away from chiang mai old town and chiang mai international airport
and civilization my old house my old school my old job my old life all my old friends
so i'm excited to go see them this is the last province before going home for a little bit
okay i'm here in the old town it's quite similar to chiang mai's old town except it's tiny
chiang mai has a circumference of about eight kilometers square but here it's only about 1.5
kilometers i looked on the map it's quite small but still very nice however i've come to this
princess's statue and there's quite a lot of history here and there's lots of statues of
horses and thai people are taking paying respects and it seems quite important and and a big part
of the city however there's no signs in english and i started to research who she is and why is
she famous and all the rest of it um but i just i'm guys i'm just i'm burnt out a little bit
i have gone non-stop since koh samui it's been two weeks since i left ko samui and i've driven over
1 700 kilometers in eight days driving uh how many wait you see what i mean my brain is fried
been a long time on the back of the bike three two one i couldn't speak all right it's been a
long way basically from koh samui through chump on clutch up kitty can peterborough ratchaburi
kanchanaburi just whizzed through that one uh chiana udaitaini utaitani nakon sawan
uh sukutai kampeng pets lampang lampun there's a couple more i missed it's been a hectic two weeks
and the reason why i've been traveling like this bang bang bang bang literally one province per day
for the last two weeks pretty much just non-stop filming non-stop adventure
was because i you know i have an appointment in in chiang mai and i think it's
i think it's actually the day after tomorrow so that's why i've been kind of rushing
and i didn't want to come back down this way because you know driving and dreaming it's very
it's very very difficult to drive long distances on a small motorbike my back is in pieces my neck
is completely like stiff um every every body part hurts my butt cheeks don't get me started on my
butt cheeks also i haven't had a conversation with anyone like for a long time so i'm just
feeling a little bit stale i'm feeling a little bit demoralized and just burnt out and just a
little bit tired so when i got to lampoon today i was just so excited to get it over with so that
i could get to chiang mai tomorrow check into a nice airbnb go have a few pints with my friends
and just connect with people and not film and take a break and not move around for a week and
get things sorted dreamy needs to get repaired and get some maintenance and get some upgrades
i need to go to the dentist i need to go to the school i need to go figure out my vaccine i need
to do a bunch of like you know admin live stuff and i need a week off so that's why i've been
traveling non-stop to get those videos get those provinces done create content for you to enjoy
put it up onto the youtube channel and and have it all stacked up ready to go for every
three days or every two days on my youtube channel anyway you know when you go traveling and you get
particularly sick or you get particularly hungover in a town or even a country if you're only like
you know if you do one of those southeast asia like in a month of trips and then people say
oh how did you like phnom penh in cambodia and people said no i didn't like it didn't like it
but actually when you think back to it you were probably only there for two days and you were
probably sick or hung over the whole time or it was really really hot and the weather was
terrible it's the same thing with lampoon there's nothing against lampoon it's not lampoon's fault
i'm just tired i've been traveling too much too far i haven't been taking my own advice
of going slowly because i had that in my mind that i needed to get to chiang mai and i didn't
want to get i didn't want to have to come back and so i've just basically burnt myself out like
an idiot so i'm sorry lampoon but we went to the train station and then we went to that weird cafe
and now we're here but i didn't really learn much about your province and it's beautiful it is small
and it's near chiang mai and i will come back i'm just i'm just tired i'm going to take a week off
the next time you'll see me will be in a couple of days and it'll be somewhere from chiang mai
i will make a video in chiang mai province even though i have a whole playlist of videos i made
about 20 videos in chiang mai province before we went on the big trip because i was living there
at the time so i'm not going to count chiang mai as a province but i will make a video i think i'll
take you to shang dao which is my favorite area of chiang mai and we'll go hang out there and
that will be the next video and i'll update you on if i got all my life admin sorted and any news
of life on the road and everything so thanks for watching and i'll see you when i'm well rested bye