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oh hey didn't see you there welcome to
the trip so here we are at mermaid
resort Cox bazaar in Bangladesh I'm just
gonna give you a bit of a tour of our
lovely room here let's have a look here
is a backyard kind of patio area and to
our left here we have the jacuzzi but
it's more like a mini swimming pool over
in the corner here we have a little sink
in the garden if you ever want to wash
your hands outside and the attention to
detail in this place is incredible like
little flowers and all the trees and
these trees these big ones these are
actually palm trees I'll show you them
from the front these ones here these are
actually branches that fell off a big
tree and they've reused them the whole
kind of idea of this resort is that it's
kind of sustainable so they don't really
import too much too many things they try
to make everything here from just things
you can get around the area and that
goes for the food that they make here as
well out that way is the beach but I'll
take you out there in a second but I'll
give you a tour of the house first so
this is the bedroom and you can see
king-size bed extremely comfortable
especially after you've been on a plane
for like 40 hours got a a mini fridge
and a TV
fully stocked mini fridge here there's
basically water in like every corner of
the room you're thirsty wherever you go
you can basically find water into the
bathroom here this is the toilet and
then at the back here we have like a
mini out of that living room inside the
inside the bathroom and look at this way
and here we have the bath and then up
this way you can see the true there's
the bedroom just a window hit and here
we have one shower there's another
shower
but I'll show you one of the coolest
things about this place you come at this
door here and here we have the outdoor
shower
many people would never expect such a
luxury
and Bangladesh is different science to
every country in it and then that goes
back out to where we were but I'll show
you more of that in a second and then
back into the bedroom and there's really
cool artwork here and all this artwork
was done on-site they actually
commissioned artists to come in and do
the paintings and they put them up
themselves you can see above the bed
there's this really kind of trippy
Medusa painting it's pretty scary but I
love it they kind of stepped out of the
norm of the resorts you wouldn't really
see that kind of edgy in other places
and then here we are and the in the
living room area this is all in the same
place where we're staying all this
little attention to detail like the rug
down here got this kind of mix-and-match
feel between you know like you'd expect
a luxury resort to be but then it's got
these little kind of additions that
really make it unique through here this
is a dining table they also make these
big lights here if you watched my old
videos from Bangladesh I went to the
ship graveyard a lot of the things in
this room and in this resort I've bought
from the ship graveyard so they're
really upcycling and they're just making
all these cool leg features like this is
a light nice rugs on the wall there and
then we have another bathroom in here
yeah just in case the other ones
occupied this is the inside of the room
I'll take you outside and show you where
this room actually leads to so more
seating areas over here come along our
boardwalk
and out to the beach here here is little
area if you've been walking in the sand
you can wash off your feet little hose
this is like the beach area kind of
right now it's high tide it's sorry
right now it's low tide in the morning
the sea comes right up here and you can
hear the waves crashing and from the
beer that's pretty pretty cool you can
also go walk around here and you can see
all the local fishermen working and
things it's not like exclusive away from
the locals you still get to see the
local life which is a point that I
really like about it because often when
you go and stay in places like this
you're kind of separated from the locals
but here you're kind of mixed in with it
it's a really nice touch there's also
lots of like random wildlife around here
like goats and all kinds of cool things
and you saw in the last video we
actually went for a boat ride right from
here basically outside our door up the
river and saw that all the locals it was
really cool this is the beach area but
I'll show you more of that in a second
but first we have got to go and get a
traditional Bangladesh lunch so let's go
eat
so our Bangladeshi foods arrived they
got rice spiced potatoes dal vegetables
the more curried vegetables
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alright guys so just finished off with
lunch they're probably my favorite dish
was the potato it was like super spicy I
thought we might get up the drone and
show you guys some shots of like the
resort from the sky if you're wondering
like how I'm staying here in things when
I was here last year I had a really bad
experience with the hotels in Cox's
Bazaar City the owners actually reached
out to me do you need a place to stay
but by then I'd already left I said if I
come back I'd love to and turns out it
was one of the nicest if not the nicest
Resort in the whole of the country
so really it's an honor to be here and
to kind of represent this area Cox
bazaar in a good way
and show you that my bad experience last
time is an complete representation of
the whole area so super nice gesture of
them to let me stay and show me around
and you know they really want to help
Bangladeshi tourism two obvious reasons
that get such a bad reputation in the
news you know with you know the refugees
and then you know the how densely
populated it is in some places and have
a Caesar rising all this negative stuff
but there is a whole lot of positives as
well as you can see by this place and as
you'll see in the coming videos for now
let's get in the sky and have a look at
this place from an aerial view
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alright guys hope you enjoyed those
drone shots epic location if you're in
the area then we sure will come check it
out
we're gonna hang out here for a bit
longer and then see what else we can
come across
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alright guys so thought I'd take you for
a bit of a walk around the resort and
show you a few things so the whole
resort is connected by this like road
here that runs at the back of the villas
kind of like a little jungle area so
here are some of the other rooms you can
see they're pretty artistic here misty
jungle so this building here with the
colorful walls is the spa you want you
can come get a massage and actually
train ladies from the local villages so
it's really cool how they try to get
everything that they can from the local
area including you know staff supplies
for building and food ingredients super
sustainable so I've just come up to the
main road here this is the road in the
next video we're gonna be going for a
drive all the way along here to the
border of me and my cock's bazaar the
city is that way I think we should see
the roads pretty busy but once you get
into the resort super quiet because it's
quite far back next to the beach hello
sir how are you
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you'd get fresh juices here conceding
there and over in that way as well I
don't want to get too close that I want
to film people leaving but it's
currently low tide but in the morning
the tide comes right up to here guess it
depends on what time of the year you
come and this old shipwreck here is
where you come and they'll take you on a
little boat adventures there's sea
kayaks here there's also a catamaran
that I've seen here and then all along
here
the villas incorporate it into the palm
trees there so so now we've just come
down to the beach watching the sunset in
the background there and all this land
here apparently moves around so much
because you know in Bangladesh had
they're losing a lot of land because of
rising seas the owners here said that
the land actually moved so this island
over here moves location so it's not
just like disappearing land it's moving
land which is
interesting kind of scary
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all right guys so hope you enjoyed that
sunset time-lapse beautiful as you can
see after that we met up with the owners
of this place and we went and had a
couple of juices we also met up with
some other foreigners and English guy
and American super cool people there
helping out with a few things around
here to do with the refugees and things
get conversations and things and
hopefully tomorrow we're all gonna go on
a trip to the border so as you can see
guys this resort is incredible like I'm
not being paid to say this or anything I
was just you know offered this
incredible place to stay while they were
visiting Bangladesh but yeah if you're
in Cox's Bazaar I'd recommend staying
and like one of the mermaid resorts I
know I definitely couldn't normally
afford a place like this but if you can
then I would recommend it because just
say in a place like this in many other
countries in the world you'd be paying a
lot more than you paid here because
things in Bangladesh and naturally
cheaper I'm going to leave their website
link down below you want to check it out
you can I'm not going to do that I just
want to because blown away by the
generosity and you know there's good
people with good intentions like they
were telling us that they source as many
things as I can within a 10-kilometer
radius anyway enough talking in case I
don't see you good afternoon good
evening and good night from Cox's Bazar
and
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