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this beautiful part of phuket is called rawai and it's littered with beautiful beaches and
coves incredible food lots to see and do it's one of my new favorite areas of phuket it's one of
the best areas in thailand to be honest and today we're going to be taking you on a tour on dreamy
to some of the best spots i've been here for five days and i'll show you where i've been
staying i'll show you what i've been eating i'll show you where i've been going this place
is beautiful you've got to come here if you're coming to phuket not just to visit but potentially
to move and live here this is a real expat community here a digital nomad community here
i mean and just look at it why would you not want to live here in rawai
my absolutely favorite thing about rawai is this beautiful lake this beautiful lake out here
with this gorgeous temple and in the afternoon they have zumba class and aerobics and it's just a
two kilometer circle around this lake and you know that you're going to be getting a two or a four or
a six kilometer run and there's a really cool gym i'll show you the cool gym here every uh province
that i've visited in the town they always have these free workout gyms and they have these
machines and you you can work out for free but this one this one's by far the best they have
about 20 different machines and you know this is busy from early morning till late at night they
have flood lights and it's a real hub of activity it's just fun a couple of laps around the lake
start your day right here in rawai and then you work up an appetite for brunch let's go
lovely coffee here at canelli this cafe i've been coming here most days and you can get really good
breakfast and brunch things i've gone for have a look at this salad this is a roasted pumpkin
and beetroot salad with broccoli chickpeas so this is another reason why i'm absolutely in love with
rawai there's loads of little cafes like this i went to another one yesterday called boost
and that was really good and there's a bunch of other places really good restaurants in
the evenings really good cafes to sit and do work they have plugs and it's all like got that digital
nomad vibe and just yeah really good cafes to get breakfast and brunches
really healthy as you can see and yeah i'm loving my wife
another awesome thing about rawai is affordable accommodation right in the middle of everything
this place is called the number four i've got the cheapest room only 800 and something bar at night
got a nice balcony out here with a little sink and an incredible mountain view have a look at this
and every morning you watch the most amazing sunrise you come in nice bed
little bathroom little kitchen kettle microwave up big telly a little bit of budgeteers on the
on the youtube catching up with their series in italy
love those guys five minutes from the lake where we go running in the morning across the street
from the cafe where we just had brunch i can see viewpoints i can see mountains fantastic
i'm talking a viewpoint let me take you to some two fantastic viewpoints actually no three
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rawai is just a cool place to drive around and explore as well guys later in the video i'll
take you to four beautiful beaches five minutes away from this area which is the downtown rawai
town or little village you want to call it lots of places to get fruit juices
supermarket mini marts massage shops more restaurants more cafes
little accidents it's narrowly avoided if you keep following this road from rawai you'll get
to patong qatar and karen beach and that's where we're going to be going to the first viewpoint
we're not actually going to casa beach we're just going to this viewpoint up that hill there
right next to rawai oh the dog's taking a little piss on the bike how cute
beautiful day i've just seen a white crested sea eagle on an actual perch okay it's uh
so i'm really excited i've never actually seen one of these up close only ever flying
around in the sky i'm pretty sure that's a white crest sea eagle we've got this little fella here
wow
is that a white crested sea eagle sea eagle yeah and then this is the karen
viewpoint you can see one two three beautiful stretches of beach so i just googled on my phone
those three beaches because i wasn't quite sure what they are because they're not going to be
part of the raw video it's katanoi qatar and karon beach and these go all the way up to the middle
of the west coast of phuket and then behind those mountains in the distance is patong but
this is just the limits of rawai in fact the big buddha i think is just on the border
between qatar and rawai let's head there now what a beautiful spot it is up here absolutely gorgeous
obviously the best time to come here would be sunrise or sunset
but in this beautiful blue sky day this still looks absolutely gorgeous
you can see that it's made of mosaic let's go take a closer look it's absolutely stunning
oh
some of the old kings in bronze
lots of beautiful buddhist imagery and obviously the fantastic
big buddha you can see this from all over rawai and kata beach overlooks this part of the island
incredible
just on the way to the third and final lookout point on the beautiful coast road which i'll
share with you more in a minute i found this place here it's called the sun deck
i'll put the google map link in the description it's got an upstairs and
a downstairs this is the upstairs area you get cocktails here and a nice seafood
just need a little bit of a refreshment quite a hot day today
have a look at this review
there's the downstairs area they just told me you can um
rent this space out for private events and parties
salute
you guys remember the lake right and the little gym here
just up the right here is a road a beautiful coastal road
and this will take us to the last viewpoint and then i'll take you
to some beautiful beaches some of the best beaches in phuket in the rawai area
you want to come to this big windmill turn right
i'm sure this is place has a real name but i just call it windmill lookout point
because of the windmill that's never turning this hill here is where the paragliders jump
off in the afternoons if you saw our video the other day about what was next i was talking at
the beach and you could see them all landing in naihan and yeah this is the viewpoint
looks over to that island down to these two little beautiful beaches
they're actually just one beach isn't it yeah this uh viewpoint behind us here
not bad at all now i know you want to get a closer look at some of the beaches here
there are four of note so let's just quickly go have a look at all four of them
we start with the worst beach which believe it or not is this one this is actually rawai
beach itself the first day i got here i opened google maps and came down to the beach raw beach
and i was a little bit let down because as nice as this is it's obviously quite busy with the
long tails and it's not really good for swimming and uh it just i don't know let me down a little
bit i thought oh is this is this the raw beach is this the place everybody comes but uh don't
be disheartened if you come down here it's still lovely but all the boats here this is where you
come and organize a boat trip to the other islands around the southern part of phuket i haven't done
one of those yet i don't know how much they cost actually while we're here let's just go find out
these lads do boat tours let's find out hello holy cow what do you got what do you have banana beans
yeah okay how much is that one one thousand five one for one person no no no one person
one boat one boat one boot yes okay and how how long for the trip 30 minutes some sip yes
okay let me get my my phone i want to show you an island that's really far away it's like i think
it's like an hour and a half photo right away but it looks beautiful so it's called ratcha noi
far away far away yes see you do you go no no mine you go you go you have ah speed bar yes
you have long tail boat you have one hour two thirty minute one hour thirty minutes
you get to get to ratchanay yes okay and how much is that gonna be the channel you have 6
6 000 but can i have four or five people yes five people yes and the speed boat boat you have uh
15 15 15 000 baht for a private speed boat okay obviously that's way too much
money for a solo traveler like me but i do have some friends here we can get five or
six people together 8 000 baht long tail is not too bad just driving around rawai
is so good look at these mountain roads guys along this coastline
look at this
flowers are in the room
so this is yanu beach
gorgeous
and we're up woo so you've got this little cove and you've got this slightly bigger
one and you just sit here and you just watch the yachts and the people enjoying the water
sports and you just look at a little coral and i can see fish this is paradise the ihan beach
two for one two paradises for the price of zero other than the flight tickets
not a lot of people know about our saying just because the road to get here it's not that far
but it's a little bit dodgy not proper dodgy just a little bit dodgy i think it puts a lot of people
off but if you get here i mean look at it and the best part is cheapest beer in the whole of hawaii
on the beach it's a little rustic restaurant here 90 baht for a big leo which is cheap for paquette
best time of day about four o'clock five o'clock and you just watch all the catamarans
people snorkeling it's nice and sheltered from the wind and of course as i already said cheap beer
i'll sane chop the cabbage
so
last but by no means least is naihan beach right here next to the lake that we ran
across this morning this place is really popular because the sand is absolutely soft and golden
the sea is flat it's safe to swim it's family friendly dog friendly it's absolutely stunning
got a really good sunset i'll take you for a nice glass of wine at one of the best little bars on
the beach here in a minute we'll just wait for the sun to go down we'll wait for sunset
and again it's just a place where the rich and famous park their yachts and come aboard it's
where parachute paragliders just casually land on the beach people are setting up the volleyball
people are just enjoying themselves this
is paradise naihan beach in here in hawaii five minutes from town
best part about this beach behind me here rock salt happy hour 5 30 till 6 30 50
off drinks make sure you reserve a nice table like i've done come and have a look there we go
when i went to our saint beach earlier today i popped in here and reserved this little table here
just because you get to just get a nice seat otherwise it's going to get chock-a-block
thank you
thanks um can i get the beach burger yeah thank you thanks