when you think of surfing especially in southeast asia you think of bali - Saigao in the philippines
sri lanka maybe even vietnam but thailand rarely jumps to the top of the list but surprisingly
here on the west coast of pangna province and a bit further down into phuket there is a massively
cool surfing scene which we're going to discover today to strap in relax we're going to the beach
we're going to be surfing we're going to be having a great time in thailand let's
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good morning okay so we're starting the day and i think we're gonna stay here all day at
memories beach and particularly memories beach bar because they rent surfboards here they have
food and drink including really good coffee which is very important for me in the morning
i got an americano with pink grapefruit no i didn't it's guava pink guava juice
this will give you all the feels and it's really surprising even for me someone who's
lived in thailand this long i had no idea that thailand had a surfing scene until right now
if i could take you back to my you
is cool spicy noodle breakfast now i've come down to the beach just to get a closer look at
the waves and there is a hundred people out there surfing in the morning and it's about nine o'clock
in the morning the sun hasn't actually come out blasting on this side yet it's still just
a little bit below these giant trees and so yeah good time to go out there if you don't want to
get sunburned i've got sun cream and i will be going out to surf soon i just want to show you
a little bit more of memories bar and just the whole vibe on this beach because this is really
surprising it's like being in somewhere like bali or even parts of sri lanka this reminds me of
so memories beach bar here on memories beach is actually like a combination of a million things
it has a skate park over here where kids are practicing and in the evening they light up
really cool i'll show you that at the end of the video because that's one of my favorite
parts about this place then you've got memories beach club which is the main restaurant they
do really good thai food seafood snacks drinks alcoholic non-alcoholic cocktails
really good music in the evening as well and then you have outside seating with like
wooden huts with thatch roofs a surf school in the distance volleyball here at sunset which i'll play
hopefully later with the locals and of course you can rent surfboards there is a coffee shop where
obviously you've got this morning's breakfast all types of coffees teas thai teas americanos ice
hocks everything you need all types of coffee and lots of swings and people are using these right
now just to film the surface or you can hang out chill or take their most amazing instagram and in
the afternoons about sunset um the buffaloes come out from the forest and go for a sunset stroll for
some reason and it is incredible again i'll show you that at the end of the video because it's
amazing and obviously you know you can see that there aren't massive waves today but that's good
that's good i haven't surfed in ages so i think i'm gonna go rent a long board we'll go out there
i'll let you know how much it costs and we'll just hang out because there's a bunch of
people out there enjoying the waves enjoying being on the ocean enjoying the surf vibes
here in thailand still can't get used to this and let's just go out there and have some fun
me
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okay i can't wait any longer it's time to go in the waves have gotten big as well
sun cream on today if you watched the last video when i went fishing
i got so sunburned turns out you can get sunburned even in the shade in thailand
and i got this look long sleeve like a surfing shirt
and uh 50 off 1 000 bar and the good thing about it is i can wear it when i'm going on my bike
keep my arms out in the sun because normally when i wear my red checkered shirt
they always like comes up anyway i'm rambling wait for this to dry
and then we'll go out and hit the waves and they've gone bigger so it's gonna be hard
so the waves are a bit too big for me right now because i haven't surfed in a long time
and everybody out there is shredding on these big waves typical uh i've been waiting for like
two weeks for this replacement part on the gopro the the door because it broke recently this thing
you see this and i bought one for like 150 bar on lazada which is like the thai amazon
and it arrived when i was staying at rawai muay thai and it clips on fine and it doesn't
quite close flush there's like a tiny little gap right here you see or here anyway when i
was in there getting shots it was working fine so i was like okay it must be closed properly
but then of course it started acting weird and now it won't turn on so i'm just like letting
it chill here with the doors open there was a little bit of water inside and it won't turn on
so i hope i haven't broken my gopro to add to the long list of things that i've broken on this trip
including this camera this camera is broken
but i'll talk to you i might talk about that later but um
camera equipment when you're filming in southeast asia doing
stuff like climbing mountains surfing just having adventures doesn't
doesn't like it very much i should just sit in restaurants talking about food
walking around temples that would be way more safe for my camera equipment but way more boring
so uh let's hope the gopro situation fixes it itself because i want to show you me surfing but
that's phuket my friend's actually in phuket it's about 15 or 20 kilometers south from here maybe
a little bit more anyway there's a giant storm there she just texted me saying oh my god it's
pissing down and i'm like yeah i can see look at it over there it's crazy blue skies back this way
so it's still beautiful here but i think it's gonna rain so the best thing to do hottest
part of the day as the rain clouds develop around you just go for a cheeky little massage
well the rain's here and it is
raining cats and dogs but that's okay i've got some delicious fried pork
it's delicious fried in chili and garlic oil and then of course i had to go with a classic
some tum the papaya salad nice and crunchy looks delicious i asked for it spicy but i
don't see many chillies in here maybe maybe it's like a falang tourist spice
i don't even see one chili in here
she said spicy mai i said chai yes she said thai style i said yes not a single chili in here
that's annoying
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man do i suck at surfing uh the point of this video was never for me to say oh look how good
i am and surfing the point of this video was for me to show you the surfing scene and that it's
here and that the people out there can surf and if you can surf you'll love it here but look at this
i was like loving life i paddled out no big deal hanging out on the board you know how they sit on
the boards just enjoying the nature enjoying the swells enjoying the storm in that direction now
beautiful and then i started trying to catch a few waves you know of course smash into the
water smash into the water never mind get back up try again try again one time almost got up
there and then i find myself in what i would like to call the death zone just where like the waves
are crashing and the board is like flinging and this thing here this rope got caught like
around both of my legs and then my legs were like this and i couldn't kick and i was panicking and
man for a few minutes i thought i was gonna drown let's just say paddy can't surf that's okay
and uh it's good job the gopro was broke because i would have lost it 100 i would have lost it 100
anyway it's nearly sunset i'm alive let's enjoy it together
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