this video is brought to you by squarespace we are almost at phuket 53 weeks on the road 76 provinces
across thailand and there's one to go and it is just over there it's about 50 kilometers up
the stream but michael wanted to see some places before we go to phuket including james bond island
this place here the floating kopanyi village or it's also known as the muslim island and a bunch
of other beautiful places in this province this province is absolutely ridiculous look behind me
it is incredible so come and come with us for one more adventure before we get to phuket in pangna
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together cheers michael i didn't do the ketchup
today we're leaving krabi but the hotel we were staying at last night wanted to charge us 400
baht a person for breakfast and we said noon we'll have a mcdonald's breakfast instead we were gonna
go to phuket but there's one more province in between krabi and phuket called pangna right
it's quite a difficult one to say but it's absolutely beautiful and michael said that
he really wants to sort of check it out for a bit and there's some things that we missed when i was
there however it's songkran festival the whole country is on holiday we don't know if we're
going to be able to find a room we don't know if we're going to be able to book a boat we might
everything might be full there's one secret reason why i want to go to this city it's very close to
james bond island and the river there like people go come from phuket so it must be by speedboat
more than an hour yeah so we're going to do it's going to cost us a fraction of what people pay
for from phuket to go see that and we carry in theory and we should be able to get it for 2500
baht for the private long tail and then and then there's a muslim village which i thought might be
interesting yeah sounds great so miss p is going to ride in the minivan we're going to ride ahead
try to find a place to stay go pick miss pierre and try and organize a fun day in pangna
i said it correct yeah i said it right i can't say that sausage and egg muffin get away from it
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okay mister are you ready okay one hour and 20 minutes this way
feels good to be back on the road after about three days in
ao nang and railay had a fantastic time
but it's now time to get a move on up to paquette
do
this
okay we're in luck michael found a hotel a cheap one 800 baht per room so miss p's
about another hour away she's coming behind us on the van so we're gonna head to the pier and
try and catch a well try and organize a local long tail to james bond island right i'm going
to pay the thai price you want you want to pay the tax price don't we all michael don't we all
so yeah this is our lovely little hotel and i'll show you the room right now
looks very nice and um yeah we're just trying to organize things before miss p gets here so we can
hopefully just you know just have everything sorted in case everything gets fully booked
because it's songkran the whole way here the roads are packed but i think most people are going to
phuket so hopefully we'll be okay so we're hoping that by coming here which is the local pier
that we'll be able to negotiate a slightly cheaper price
after some research if we wanted to do this kind of area from phuket which most people seem to do
it's about 3500 baht for a tour but coming to the source much closer to everything
hopefully we'll get it like much cheaper in fact i can see it on the here one pers
one to six people two thousand seven to ten people two thousand five hundred cars
kickstand paddy six people two thousand baht perfect okay well that was easy i thought there'd
be like thousands of cars here and minivans so james bond island some kind of kayaking thing
that island a cave the muslim floating village and whatever that is for two thousand bar
three hours later okay it's three o'clock let's go on the boat shore
oh baby i love your madness it's so incredibly beautiful
you shine like gold so selfless
always hungry for more that's just how i was born take me somewhere i don't know and give
life is so easy
all right so the tour continues we went past the cave that looked lovely and we went past
the muslim village we didn't actually go to the muslim village we're hoping that we will be able
to go there on the way back but we've stopped off now at james bond island i'm sure you guys
are aware this place is very popular because of the movie was it octopussy please tell me
you know i don't know jesus i know it's this jazz it's not jaws no the guy named the bad guy's name
oh it's that movie i think it's octopussy i'm probably wrong you realize there's nobody here
hardly yeah coming in the afternoon we've escaped hopefully most of the phuket crowd we've paid 300
baht each to get in except for miss p she only had to pay 60. why is that well because she's
thai oh right and they don't have the same price for us foreigners as the thais you should know
this by now every province that i've gone to every national park that i've visited
i've moaned about that because it's kind of a little bit out of order when we when we rode up on
the boat you're like it's so small yeah actually that was the first impression i had because it's
backdropped by absolutely beautiful ginormous limestone formations but this one because
obviously it's in the movie it's the famous one so this is the why everybody comes to see it and it
is actually very pretty we were actually talking about in the news recently they're really worried
because of the erosion at the bottom it hasn't got many years left before it's going to fall in
and they've been trying to figure out how to how to keep it up because obviously it brings
in a lot of money from tourism and if that falls into the sea nobody's going to want to come here
and pay 300 baht the rock won't be erect anymore it'll go limp because of you by the way you're
right the man with the golden gun is it the man with the golden guy 1974. okay there we go
okay we can't leave without taking pictures of miss p because i am holding a handbag
and an iphone i am an instagram boyfriend
oh sexy lady sexy lady
on the way back from james bond island towards the muslim island we saw the sandbar michael
was driving the boat and we ran aground it's awesome it's like it's completely made of shells
yeah and and sand
can you see
we're the only ones here this is awesome kangna
province guys it's a sleeper province oh there's a fish
ah let's bury him
this is awesome
so
okay our luck is in we are stopping off at the island koh panyee is the technical name but it's
also known as the floating village or muslim island because of the fantastic and beautiful
golden mosque in the middle of the island here and uh the story that goes with it it's a really
interesting one so that as we walk through let me tell you the story of the history of this place
so yes this unique settlement was actually established in the 18th century by malaysian
fishermen at that time land ownership was solely for the people of thailand
and so due to that fact they built their homes on stilts and over the years as this place became
popular the thai tourism industry started to allow land ownership here in koh panye and
they built a mosque and a water well even though this place is super popular with tourists nowadays
its primary source of income is still fishing so as you walk around the village you can see the
locals untangling fishing nets going out on their boats and just living a perfectly peaceful life on
the canals and rivers of pang nabe michael what do you think of the floating village it's pretty
cool huh this is great yeah really really really authentic quite a quite a community uh not jaded
you know good to see that they get government support with the infrastructure we didn't make
it to the floating football field would be nice to catch a game well thank you for not saying soccer
yeah um i'm kind of tired my face is covered in salt water and a game of football plus we need to
get back before we lose light we've got about an hour back to where we were started then we
got to drive back to town but it's just nice to be here now you can hear the moss calling
miss p's buying a bracelet and the people here just hanging out
and it's cool you see the locals like you know taking care of their chickens
um growing plants there's these you can even buy ganja here uh actual plant ganja not not spliff
um but yeah and you can stay on the island uh flora and note they stayed here i'll leave a
link to that video if you're interested because they had a really nice guest house experience
no alcohol on the island it's um quite strict i think with the rules here because it is
muslim and everything like that so there's lobster i mean i've seen every kind of seafood
you can imagine yeah yeah maybe we'll come back here on another trip and stay at night
um right we'll just wait for miss p to buy bracelet and then we'll go
she's been humming and worrying about which one to get for about half an hour
okay that is the end of our exploration of pangna i hope you enjoyed it we had a great day
kind of tired now so next province is the final province of phuket
i'm just watching an eagle hunting for fish this place is just ridiculous so thank you
so much for watching in the next video we are going to the last province the end is in sight
see in the next one
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