hi my name is josie and welcome back to my channel or welcome
if you are new here today we are in pattaya
so this is our first full day in pattaya and like i said we haven't had the best luck with
the weather so far it's a little bit overcast today i can hear some thunder and i'm starting
to feel a couple of drops of water so hopefully everything goes to plan but i think we're oh thank
you but so far all we've had is rain so coming from chiang mai and all the north into island
i was expecting and kind of hoping for a little bit of a beachy getaway but that's okay
we're gonna make the most of it and see what else we can do today before it starts raining
but everyone seems to be having fun which is what i like to
a new see for a while let me feel the light
nothing to hold me back take my time just enjoy the pride
so we're just walking down the beach at the moment it's still quite overcast as you can tell but it's
not raining right now so we're taking the time to put our feet in the sand and you know have a
walk along the beach can you hear it it feels and sounds so like relaxing i haven't heard a beach
sound for a very long time have i been to potato pate pate up sorry if i say potato by the way
pattaya i'll get it right one day have you ever been here before no do i think it's as busy as
it usually was beforehand also no but we haven't been here for very long and our trip isn't that
long here in pattaya we did go to the walking street last night and we had a quick look around
however honestly that's not really my scene so we're not gonna do any videos around the
nightlife i am not really one to like going out um or drinking or doing anything like that so we
just did we just get scammed he was trying he was trying to scare us so what why if this happens a
lot in thailand and especially in pattaya you get that jet ski out there behind us you'll get on it
you'll ride it around for your hour you'll come in and then he'll say look at the bottom of the jet
ski you've damaged the jet ski and you'll say no i didn't i just wrote it around he said you must
have ridden over some rocks or something like that and then all of a sudden you've got to pay the
money and then the police come and then the police says he's made and the police takes the card of it
it's a really common scam in so if you're going to do the jet skis take someone who can speak thai
with you establish beforehand maybe that you know the scam i don't know for me i just wouldn't do it
i just tried a jet ski somewhere else i wouldn't i would interesting i didn't know i was like yeah
let's grab a chat so from what i noticed going out just last night and through the day that there
seems to be a lot of like sort of thai tourists around at the moment and they're going like tubing
and things like that which is really fun there's not really that many travelers if that makes sense
we have seen the odd couple like us that are just probably on a holiday in thailand but um for the
majority um it's basically what i've noticed is kind of you know the senior sort of class of men
if that makes sense so i don't think it's fully back to its capacity or what it used to be um it's
kind of just that core group of um specific type of people still here if you know what i mean let's
go have a look around and as you can see i am a little bit just i am a little bit disappointed
i am a little bit disappointed that it's not really sunny today but it is in the middle of
rainy season and you know it's not raining so i'll take that and apparently that is kolan where we
are going to try and go tomorrow before we go home and i'm really excited to do that so make sure you
like and subscribe to see the video from kerala also it's just started to terrain i think i jinxed
myself so we're gonna risk it for the biscuit and hopefully see you there so for those of you
who are interested in nightlife not like myself we have the famous soy 6 behind us it is pretty
dang busy for 3 p.m in the afternoon so keep that in mind that if you want to come for a drink have
a bevy which in australian is beverage feel free to pop on there or there are seats on the um
on the beach too for you to grab one of them and pull up with a drink as well so if you're into
drinking if you're into the nightlife that might be the place for you to be
so i needed a coffee and i found this one
so we're gonna head to get one the first like coffee shop shop that i've seen yeah
everything's like starbucks or amazon yeah it's like an actual coffee shop first one
i've seen but we also we haven't been out much we worked yesterday so let's go have a look
okay so now we've walked from soy six all the way down to the beach festival beach festival
walk down beach road we've borne we've walked down beach road to central festival i got there in the
end if you are have you if you've been to thailand before you do know that there are essentials
everywhere so central festival big shopping centers and it actually really surprised me
that there's a big shopping center literally right here with the hilton on top of it on the other
side of the beach so you can always get exactly what you need in thailand which is really cool
as you can see as well there's people and street vendors setting up for some street food later on
so we're gonna go in buy michael some shoes look around in the shopping center on the inside and
then hopefully by the time we come out these guys will be set up and we can buy some food
from them so stick around for that also i do see these little these little chairs on the beach so
we might we might indulge ourselves and and have one of them after as well finish the day
we might finish the day with a sunset drink so stick around and we'll show you how to do that too
here we are on the beach of pattaya getting some mango sticky rice sticky rice one kilo
that is a lot of mango sticky rice so we just came out of central shopping center we
just picked up some mango sticky rice which is crazy right now in thailand with millie
she like ate it on stage or something she's like a famous i think thai singer or something
rapper um and now we're just gonna find one of these deck chairs on the beach to sit down with
relax maybe catch a sunset if we can and go from there but we're just trying to
find the one that has drinks as well 50 bucks 50 bucks each per person 150 150.
i kind of do something yeah yeah what have you got
i'm gonna be here got coconut coconut and i'll get a small layer okay
so we found a deck chair on the beach and as you can see michael's into it already
um we're just gonna sit here probably watch the water i want to go put my feet in the
water because the water here at the beach in thailand is so warm like i hadn't been
i've been in thailand for four months but i've never actually been on a beach yet
and put my water in the ocean the water i've never put my feet in the ocean yet so last night when we
got here i did do that and it was so warm it was like a bath my coconut's coming oh yes popcorn car
wow so if you haven't watched i went and i tried
uh things that i'd never eaten before in one of my videos that we did at a night market
coconut was one of them i'd never actually had one before so this is only my second coconut
ever and this one is already starting out a little bit better because it's nice and cold it's icy
cold that's so sweet so i've got an ice icy cold coconut here
i've got a spoon for the flesh to eat the flesh because i didn't know you can do that
and i got a nice dead chair to lay on and hopefully i can get someone to get me a full
massage because i would love that right now i'm gonna go get in the water this is my first time on
an italian i'm not in italy on a thai beach and i do have to say the sand in australia i don't know
if you can beat the beaches that are in australia but this does come quite a close second because
of the tropical weather the fact i can see islands across the ocean this is crazy and i've never been
here before you can see the pattaya city sign over there somewhere but let's fill the water
i just wanna hold you for forever everyday you're making me
so you've got like a lot more people on the beach now than i kind of realized there's
people on the hustle that coming around selling you elephant shorts and watches and everything
like that look what we have mango sticky rice we're gonna have a little bit here
with a fork no spoon let's have some mango sticky rice this one
smells very fresh very good the mango itself is really yellow which means i feel like it's going
to be really quite juicy which is good and the sticky rice looks like sticky rice so let's try
the mango is so soft the sticky rice is so sticky this is delicious
okay so where should you stay when you come to pattaya now i have made some observations from
being here for quite a short period of time however i do think that this is a city based
around night life now is night life something i like or something that's for me not particularly
if it is for you though i think this is a great place to come and there is no time like
right now because i don't think it's as busy as it normally is which probably means there's less
lines for things there's more things that you could do maybe you couldn't get a seat
like this before so it is a good time to come i would say if you're into nightlife and into the
bars and everything like that anywhere from about soy six down to walking street will probably be
a good place to stay that's where we are and again was it really where i would stay
if i came back to pattaya again probably not i would probably stay up from soy six up towards
the like resorts if i was to come back now i was kind of looking for like a beach relaxing type
of a holiday is it like that no i think it's more of a higher paced sort of nightlife area
with a beach on it now that is most people's ideal holiday which is totally fine is it mine
no i prefer more of a slow paced relax on a beach no one else around quiet this isn't that
but in saying that pattaya has its place and it's time and it's most people's best
interest which is awesome we are going to clearly learn tomorrow maybe there'll be more of my jam
and hopefully the weather picks up a little bit for us i think that once it's sunny and
everything like that i think the sun brings out endorphins and maybe we would have had
a bit more success with the beach here in paseo okay so we came here for a bit
of island life a bit of relaxation so we're gonna try and do that for a little bit but
pattaya and i'm sorry i've probably said that wrong the entire video but
from australia like our accent would say pattaya here we go pattaya pattaya
pattaya mate but i can see why it's really popular with thai tourists who don't see the
beach that much it's probably a much cheaper place to come see the beach than to fly to the islands
um especially if you're from bangkok it's only an hour and a half away so why wouldn't you come
down here for the weekend it kind of reminds me of cuda beach in bali a lot right now which is again
the most touristy part of bali that most people will tell you to not stay at do through the day um
but i think for now we're gonna enjoy the sunset right we don't really like relax a
lot and that's what we kind of came here for and so far we've kind of worked the whole time so
i have my coconut michael has his beer we're going to drink this sit
on our stalls hopefully i can get a foot massage watch the ocean and make
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