give me a reason to get out of bed
i need a minute to think or maybe too
we just got here and it already started to rain i can feel the rain on me we didn't come yesterday
because it was raining but today is our last day in pataya it's the last day we could come to kolan
so um we're going home tonight to chiang mai so this is our last chance and it's
already raining on us but we're gonna make the best of this situation it's getting really bad
so i don't know if you heard that but as soon as we said that the
massive fault of thunder and lightning just struck and apparently there's meant to be a
thunderstorm at 1pm which is in about 15 minutes and then hopefully it stops after that tomorrow
i keep repeating the same mistakes
okay it's like really stormy right now there's like water going everywhere okay so we took the
big boat over here it took about 25 to 30 minutes and i kind of expected it to take about 40. it was
30 baht each and to get a speedboat i think was 150 baht each so i'm okay to sit on the boat for
a little bit longer for a little bit cheaper of a price um but as soon as we got here we encountered
some rain that's thunder if you can hear it and we've kind of been sitting in a cafe drinking
a coffee eating for the last maybe hour or so just to wait for the rain to pass because it was
pouring down like pouring down rain and this was our first sort of sunny day that we did have in
pattaya so we're hoping that we'll be able to get some sun out of this trip but we haven't so far
so now we're just gonna buy some ponchos so to be honest this the rain kind of threw away
any video idea i had planned for this so we're winging it at the moment and if you
don't know what wing it means it means doing things on the fly and figuring it out as we go
so we just picked up some raincoats from 7-eleven and about to get run over by a car
and we're just walking through the little village we're deciding whether we get
a bike rental or we just catch a local like tuk tuk or something just to take us to the beach
so we can sit on the beach in the rain in our poncho we're not planning on spending the whole
day here so well not anymore yeah just getting to one or two beaches it's probably easier by uh
do
okay so we decided to go with a bike we've rented one in the village
and then it was a pretty short drive i think it took about eight minutes
to this beach which one is it which one is this tian beach so we're here at the moment
we had to walk park our bike walk along this sort of like overpass little bridge thing
and now we are here on the beach my first actual beach in thailand i mean minus patagonia yesterday
but this is my first actual beach my first swim in a thailand beach as well so this is exciting oh
stepping on some seashells and stuff here oh yes oh i love the feeling of thailand water it's so
beautiful all right i think i'm gonna have to have a swim because i can still hear thunder
and i'm scared it's gonna come back and get us but this is beautiful there's a massive mountain
and look at this beach i have not seen a thai beach before this is crazy you
pay for a seat and you leave your stuff on the seat and then you can go into the water
this is amazing the water is so beautiful there's an island behind me the water is
so warm it's like a bar this is absolutely beautiful this is my first swim in a thai
beach look how beautiful this is as you can hear this
you've got boats out there it's quite shallow here it's just nice to lay in oh this is so beautiful
the water is immaculate it's amazing this is oh something touch my foot oh let's run away
i'm just gonna head back up to where michael's standing he hasn't had a chance to come in the
water yet so let's head back up here and i think we only have the bike for two hours it's also
very late in the evening and we have to fly sort of back to bangkok or chiang mai tonight too so
that was amazing
okay so we are here we stopped at some lookout point to look over this beautiful beach over here
um i do think that if you caught a boat uh like the boat here on the other side of where we caught
it then you kind of end up in this area and you're kind of stuck here um but the boat the ferry that
we took here you kind of get off in the middle of that little village that little town then you
can rent bikes you can kind of do more things so if we didn't end up getting that boat then
we would have had to stay in this one general area look at the paragliders where are they
whoa but this beach does look like there is a kind of a lot of water sports but there was
you know jet skis boats uh tubing and all that happening where we were as well and i
liked our beach it was kind of like a very quiet side beach this one looks like it has
like cafes and like houses and built up more but still beautiful look at that view see that
yes
so we're just trying to find the way around the one-way streets to take the bike back
we were driving to take the bike back and then we're driving fast and i saw that they had durian
and i haven't tried during yet and everyone's telling me to try durian so let's try something
ah alright
i'm so excited
so we got the ferry here um but it's like 4 p.m and i'm like wet and i think we want to
go home a little bit faster we missed the ferry so we have to wait an hour until 5 pm
if we were to get on that so michael luckily paid for the speedboat ride
okay so we've got the speed boat back from the i would actually honestly recommend that it really
wasn't that bumpy i know it was a little bit more expensive it was 150 baht per person but
we were literally back in probably five minutes as opposed to 30 to 40 on the ferry so if it's
within your budget remember the ferry was 30 baht each then i would probably recommend grabbing the
ferry there just so you have the experience and then getting the speed broke back um it's a long
day when you're on an island and you're swimming and all that so it's probably good to get home
as quick as possible if you want to so i do have the durian in my back in my back in my bag it's
probably smelling out my entire backpack by now but we bought it from a little vendor a lady that
we saw when we were riding through the streets of kolan so i bought it from her it was so expensive
it was 315 baht i think that's normal i mean it is for durian but it means it's expensive like you
can get you know a bit of pineapple or probably the same amount of watermelon for like 20 or maybe
maybe 30 baht that was 315 bucks that's probably around 12 australian so we've got it here now
we're right in front of the where's the sign is that it pattaya pattaya sign and i s you
know what i've been here for two days and i still don't know how to say it pattaya pattaya who knows
leave me in the comments but let's try this durian let's see if it's as smelly as everyone says it is
i kind of smelt it as soon as i open the plastic bag will you need gloves you need gloves sometimes
you glass and you might want to use any gloves to hold the durian you might want to use the
plastic bag to but then you have a little plastic bag for later so my hands are going to smell it
looks like someone took a bite out of it yeah they did look in there it's not that bad oh
i'm not sure how i feel about it
no what's the consistency like it's like rubbery it's kind of like
jackfruit like jackfruit yeah you're right give me a smile
how's it taste
because some people love it it's honestly not actually bad so people love the taste
okay okay i feel like it's a mix between mango rock melon and i think the jackfruit
is it tasty it's not as bad as i thought it was yeah it smells worse than it tastes
right it does it smells it smells kind of like it tastes but it tastes better
than it smells does that make sense would i buy it again no am i glad i've tried it yes
give it a second
okay it's not bad after a week yeah durian's not for me
it's not bad it's not bad but it's bad it's not great but it's not it's not terrible i
honestly thought it would taste like a pile of rubbish but it doesn't it's got like a
weird texture the texture is like soft but stringy in a way it's kind of like a mango
with like the aftertaste of a rock melon but the first taste that you bite is like kind of rank but
then after that it kind of gets a bit sweeter i don't know it's really weird it's a really weird
fruit i've never tasted anything like it so just for reference everyone loves this this is called
the king of fruits and we're actually right in the middle of durian season right now so it is the
perfect time to grab and try one of these bad boys they're going to taste delish well objectively
so that's it for our day and our day trip to kolan from pataya beach we spent all up around
about 900 baht not including the durian and the durian was expensive so just to recap we took
the big ferry over to kolan that cost 30 baht each then when we got there we rented the motorbike
so that cost us 200 baht for a 150 150. 155cc motorbike so a really good deal actually we had
the coffee and a little bit of light lunch slash breakfast at the cafe when we got there because
it was pouring and that was about 180 baht then when we got to the beach you have to pay to sit on
the little deck chairs and they were 50 baht each as well so 100 for the two of us the last thing
we bought was the jet ride jet ski jet jet speed boat ride back and that was 150 baht each so all
together for the two people for one day out on an island in kolan was around 900 baht so pretty good
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