[Music] a little different than all the rest a quite old fashioned where a hat sometimes play chest and when I'm out I'm looking for that vintage flame but all complexions that I adore so to find the seem impossible to score so I dream to some find that [Music] love I kept on looking but everyone such a boy and out of a sudden you came through the door at the next day your whisking the lights were Ted as our eyes met you saw me and forever more I like to share that vintage [Music] stram let's [Music] go good morning from Haw in what are we doing here you might ask we're supposed to be on a train or a bus well it's top secret I'll show you [Music] anyways little cafe SL Bakery here what cup there you go dark beer [Music] cake burger and beer 359 happy hours buy one get one what more do you want Miranda seating not bad yeah right we'll get to the train don't worry secret no more Captain Morgan IE I'm with this for a nice Chill [Applause] Spot beautiful yeah oh before we start the train bus race to Bangkok and back got to have a look at the beach right here it is fantastic yeah top secret top chill my top top favorite is just up here as I'll show you hopefully you guys don't mind a little look at the beach as well well H for young and old alike no age limits in this beach guys getting a little paddle boarding in the window kick up later and then the you see the kiteboards get up okay let's have a better look at this beach let's get the drop home Point [Music] updated [Music] [Music] oh [Music] and Landing landed in the dirt is always I always get stick from viewers about that you can just catch it and invert it but I've been nicked a few times doing that so twice nicked Twice Shy okay we bit later and you can see the wind's picked up here the kites are starting to fly guys getting some lessons that's how you get it up actually my hat's off to anybody who learns to kite Surf and I would say the average age of the kite Surfers along this beach about 50 so kite serving from 1,000 30 bucks efil from 2,000 B 60 bucks 1,000 bought for less than yeah 250 2,500 okay thanks my favorite spot it's right up there before we go up quick look at Chan saang right next door this place to grab a beverage Seaside seat a room in the end quick look at the menu smoothie 50 bu it's not bad pretty good actually considering you're right on the beach wobbly pop will set you back 75 for a small it's pretty good breakfast hbot o chicken or beef 100 BL three bucks it's pretty good bump that up to Spirit had 60 bought yeah tand is so expensive right Jan let's go to my favorite spot should be a little quieter Lemonade Stand brand is busy too as course drip room Tay fantastic coffee at this place fantastic spot actually free water nice touch thank you Beach pizza place is always popular favorite seats open something you take that a seat in the house but actually I know a better seat up here oh all the beds are taken wait a sec that could work not bad yeah right so I hope you enjoyed this look at wahan beach now we're off to the train station let's go okay here we are at the grand old wahen train station you see the Royal waiting room right there very historic train station I think the prettiest train station in all of Thailand well this old station I'm sorry to say has been replaced by a brand new station before we get on away I've got to give you a little bit of a backstory let's go what cup free hair cup yeah J Mar cup coai cup K C here's a great example of the legacy of King a long tradition of monarchs in Wen starting from the origins of this Railway there is the Royal waiting room just like this station King Ramen 9 will live forever in the hearts and minds of people of Wan for sure and Thailand there's the main road to the beach if you keep going straight that way you'll be at the beach in about 5 minute walk or so and the grand old original Haan railway station and you can see right next door is the new station right next door is the original Wan Golf Course looks absolutely beautiful today is it this is such an iconic Historic Railway Station I'm sure that it will remain Untouched by the way if you're looking for a nice airon place to have a coffee while you're waiting for the train let's this place is still open just love these lotus flower trees here beautiful yeah smell fantastic my l a a gam of a coffee shop this she said they've got fewer customers now sadly I would definitely rather beide here than in a open air hot new terminal tyan Italian food L Roa and breakfast right across in the train station or Tai jok and all sorts right there that like C C 40 bot can't beat that have Wi-Fi here [Music] too tip thank lukano a bit confused like what what's where's the ticket office came to the old station you don't mind being on my little video do you where where are you from what do you think of our little Seaside town here next bang gr great choice fantastic your travels ah the meeting point the Chinese are back see on the left here this is the original track and it's a single track that runs from shangai down to the border of Malaysia but every time two trains meet on a track one has to pull into the siding and wait for the other two pass pass by now the new dual track which is up here has sped up the journey apparently 30% and you can see the elevated track in operation right there we'll be on that track later okay let's have a quick look at the station although it's a brand new train station it's done in the same Motif the exterior as the historic train station so that's kind of nice oh what have we here some sort of a beauty pageant where it looks of things let's see new [Music] [Applause] [Music] song number 12 number 12 I I will remember thank you nice to meet you can I ask you how do you pronounce yes how do you say it that's how you sayin thank you very much Miss Miss Grand Thailand pra on Facebook thank you very much good luck CH the cup nice welcome to the train station my Irish friend he's all smiles too guys are getting photos of a Lifetime show your classmates that the schedule's advaned now notice that Wen times are noted in the Shaded gray area and you can see if you're going north to Bangkok most of the trains are arriving throughout the night the 12:44 that's the tanbury so that's not going to that's going to get you to the Riverside of Bangkok but I'm going to my Embassy today so I'm going to be taking a bus up and the train back so let's head to the bus station by the way many have asked yes I still have trippy my 24-year-old $1500 50,000 bot on the Civic it's worked like a top and I'm going to be taking her in an upcoming series continuing my beach and home search so look forward to that watch see starts right up now we'll have to fast forward to the bus station let's go right here we are at blueport shopping mall in haai in and now we're going to jump on a bus to go to Bangkok and time [Applause] that coffee Club Starbucks I think I have time for a Starbucks wish I had time for some of that here at the exit by Burger King just outside you'll find the bus to Bangkok right there let's see sometimes it's a half siize bus and some sometimes the full size which one do we get today oh the half size so I don't want to say the short bus but this is a maybe it is cuz I'm want in between a minivan and a big bus I kind of like it actually just get your tickets here and where you go Cup by cup 200 B and there's there's the times nice seats oh good the best seat best leg room hey where we [Music] go okay and the time now for the record is 11:05 something a train doesn't have to put up with any longer with dual track is traffic jams what's up what the night market looks like in the daytime by the way completely transformed in a few hours no traffic lights on the train either shut out [Music] spee [Music] and we're on the motorway let's see what this feed gets up to looks pretty steady around 80 85 there's [Music] bugges [Music] oh we are going to stop MCD oh next door to MCD see 10 minutes that's thing about the train you're always on break oh good to stretch legs that's another advantage of of a train is you can always stretch your legs I love that freedom and you go to the Hong n in the bathroom whenever you like here it's when they stop or if they stop when you want if they stop when you need that is okay we have to compare washrooms don't we let's have a look clean Basin area squatting a bucket see train wins a game the train at least has a choice between Squad and set and like the train you got a good selection of food here in this case get your fried fish bomb on do some shopping goo Sushi interesting name pretty good prices 99 B three bucks Chinese place looks popular smart marketing right there digital payment everywhere go to McD's okay you can't do that on the train but Black Canyon coffee okay you don't have a Black Canyon coffee on the train either both have their advantages and disadvantages but me I still prefer the train okay now for the last leg All Aboard way we go on the road again [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] and [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this [Music] it's Saturday by the way it's [Music] Saturday for what cup they keep talking about about replacing this echi bus station every year so far it hasn't happened thank goodness now let's do a time check and for the record the time now is 300 p.m. so that took just shy 4 hours still 131 bought to go to Paya how do you like that there's no I in paa by the way ask any Tai there's no Paya it doesn't exist by the way if you're taking the bus to hen from eami it's number 18 right there all the board for paa or Paya not Paya pay not Paya imagine rocking up to Buckingham Palace and saying excuse me where's Bingham Palace place or saying I Left My Heart in San Francisco yeah anyways it doesn't really matter as long as both parties know where they're going at the end of the day really and nobody nobody makes a mess of the ti language more than Mah for the record right making our way over to BTS easy little seven there gu's been on the island you see the bites ouch you know what you want for that cyol cream I'll put it on the screen it's the best stuff and it's non-steroidal hey 300 p.m. on a Saturday here as I said oh good so I got 38 bot left on my card station [Music] okay here we are at Terminal 21 we've arrived at a [Music] [Music] soak okay we're definitely here we've arrived the time now is exactly 3:20 p.m. okay I could bring you guys to where I'm going next which is my favorite budget hotel with pool in lower sucan V yes it's still exists but I'm going to save that for another VD now I don't know if this BD ends here or if I start on the train three days later okay let's head over to the train station and see how long it takes to get there and also how long it takes to get from Bangkok to haai in let's go take a train to a train well Subway to a train we start the time when we get on on the subway train I'm see how everyone politely stands on the right so if you're in a hurry you can just go on the left and go past very rarely do you see that in any city in the world but in Bangkok that's how they roll play like that down to the subway time check call at 12:30 you could of course also take the sky Train out to Moret and then take the and take the roofi tidine or the subway just a couple of stops but this is just a so I prefer it here's our [Music] [Music] ride we go [Music] please mind the gap between train and [Music] platform hey welcome to bangu and up we go and you'll see right away to the left is bangu Junction to the right is K apiwat Central Terminal which is what we want there's another great big sign longdistance train so take a right when you get off of the MRT nous monks there looks like we're vlogging bloggers he looks dedicated she doesn't look depressed couple vloggers must be tough I don't know how they do it cuz you have two independent mines but some really seem to clict so on them so we came from the blue line and we're almost upstairs to the train terminal and here's the commuter trains you can see people getting off to dang the red line Etc but we are going around here to the very back of this building we take a turn and we go down to the very end of the building here hardworking SRT staff hello we' got time before the train so let's just pop outside it's a vast open chamber isn't it really I'm not knocking K tap appy Etc but it's just kind of vast and a utilitarian it's it's difficult to say that you love this building the way you would say that about Hong that's all that's all I'm saying anyways okay and here's a view from the [Music] outside and a game with the architect I'm not saying that this is unattractive it's just a little I don't know Blade Runner esque we'd have to come back in 50 years and then judge it I suppose back into the belly of the Beast as Sean Conor used to say ah now we can really see so we are down here in the bottom the main Concourse and the first level again is the SRT Red Line and the longdistance trains and then the top level is going to be for highspeed rail [Music] here's a Lou and robot parking don't stand there gain more blade runner-esque feel to the place deny and the removal of the bum guns continues please stop removing the bum guns T it's so much more civilized in the west and you're worried that it looks uncivilized man once you have a bump gun you never go [Music] back let's go so we're at the far end for reference coming from the MRT which brings us to the actual waiting area for the southern bound and Northern bound trains if you're going to the South anywhere in the South it's usually this Center one right here e yeah this is the waiting area right here for Wan it's the Southern Line you can see and for shangai Nissan the north northeastern line you want to be at departure gate B and if you come down to the very end of the building here start to see more food options I'll show you not to Waffle on but that's a pretty good deal 3 for 69 bu five get one free and besides ready go eats they've also got a some decent coffee here as well well the price are pretty good 45 bu for an Americano nice and if you came here early and you wanted to have a wander without your luggage you can just leave it here in one of these lock boxes Mini Storage there okay and over here we got a bit of a museum and some Redline uh characters we quick look at the Museum bit shall we you know this to me is very interesting they could really flesh out an entire area dedicated to the history of the SRT I would love to see that that would be fascinating to me so this is a good start it's funny how history gives a building life and character that's essentially what this does okay finally at the very end is the food court just right there okay here is the food court or food station as they call it there's some good food on offer here too good food and good prices I'll show you you don't believe me brois Burger 39 bot how do you like that and your come on guy 50 bot it's all right too doesn't it but I know what I want it's not that it's n any of these dishes I am after something that's over in this corner usually let's start with some aqua 10 bot you can't be see there's no price gouging here 10 bot it's good okay this is what I want yes absolutely that's what I want CH cup cup cup Cup tip oh thank you very much thank you okay I just tasted that of the counter it tastes fantastic hey they found the place you found it good she said yeah they were completely lost I Sav them a a trip up to the red line upstairs and wandering around for an hour up on that course enough jabbering let's eat this southern style C guy the flavor on that rice is just fantastic hey that was lunch and it was fantastic you see why I waited for lunch here also at the far end here you can also buy tickets I've already booked my ticket but just for fun let's see if we can get a second class aircon ticket to go to Hawaii and on the day of departure I doubt it they're probably all sold out few foreigners rocking up for last minute tickets you've only got second two people one bed one bed one bed oh they got a second class sleeper upper bed to shangai they did well to get that air I think it's full full what time okay air oh you have airon how much is it so the upshot of that was she had one seat left in airon and it converts to an upper if you're going further and it was 310 B I think she said so you could have got lucky on this day if you just rocked up at the last minute looking for an airon seat but that's very unusual okay here's the departures I'm taking the 171 rapid at 1510 that's actually a sleeper train but I'm not using the sleeper I'll just be using the seat I just like it cuz it's more spacious Etc so I'm going to arrive hopefully within 3 and 1/2 hours and it'll still be light I hope when we arrive and the sleeper trains are a lot more comfortable than the commuter train the train number 40 just a commuter train which leaves at 1805 now I see which will be you're in the dark the entire way it's such a pretty trip so that's another reason I prefer to take the 1510 is cuz you're in the daytime and it's just like uh to me it's just like sitting on a bus I just don't enjoy it I like the freedom in the space of the sleeper trains there's another option while you're waiting massage okay I got to charge my phone or this would be a short video probably a long ass video already we'll see literally 1% left of my phone and all the Chargers are taken Argentina Argentina nice girl from Argentina allowed me to take her plug I brought out my extension and now we're sharing a plug you see she's scanning everybody's tickets if you don't have a physical ticket if you got a digital one then save a PDF on your phone and show it to her and she'll scan the QR code right on time we're ahead of time actually it's 3:00 straight up and the train leades at 10 minutes so up we go to the plan for way up there all into The Concourse now these are the third class seats here so this is what you're going to be sitting in if you didn't book A second class it's all right I mean now the train is only 3 hours versus 5 hours allegedly we'll see hi some wers well they've got some nice seats there look at that see these leather seats look nicer than those bench seats so a short trip in the winter time if you're going to canabury or somewhere close like that no problem Bogies we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine looks like nine bogeys so here's the aircon cars you can see the difference this is the old train again not as nice as a new train but these are airon at least I'm in number 13 Lucky 13 here since these platforms are so high mind your head when you get [Music] in so what deup taking me right to my seat thank you C cup JD cup how about that for service thank you the new trains have outlets in every single seat but the old trains don't um ah there and we're away actually right on [Music] [Music] [Music] time [Music] good man well see you than you see you gu asked me if Hunter bought for a beer from that guy it's a good price I said yeah three bucks this is the view I want to see you don't get these views on a bus and let's have a look at the low shall we the squat the whole the floor or the seat with hold the floor so needless to say it's really not crcket to do number two when you're in the station the latest new trains do not have a hole in the floor like that in fact I'll show you the difference I'll put it on the screen now and here's the bathroom in the new train as you can see it's it's quite nice almost like a uh Airline Style [Music] there you go pretty good but they have a bum gun and to me that's a second class Fan's not bad [Music] so you can see that the Dual track is still very much a work in progress even though it is officially open work continues so this why we're behind schedule a little bit it's still probably 30% faster than [Music] normal there's the old tracks you can see that's the old tracks we're on the elevated section now R I [Music] [Applause] believe make way make way I want one of those those Rasberry noodles are fantastic she'll come back got one rapberry noodles 10 B Omar everything good good red bury famous noodles yeah everybody knows these noodles seat 10 yeah my big the food comes to you chicken I just ate you're not going to starve or be parched for anything on this train water it's funny how English guy went up to one of the vendors and said hey mate can you get me a beer and he said yeah I'll be right back and he's asking me Hunter bot is that good for a beer I said take it they don't serve beer on the trains anymore unfortunately wow see May knows how A din to style me chop pet Kung yeah he makes shrimp ah okay he's the shrimp guy from yala yala go yala go number one try having a sit down gourmet meal in a bus with a table no less at your seat with beautiful views I might add tomor 9:00 9:00 tomorrow nice and comfortable there's your dual track hey yeah dual track song song or daa sat daa so you speak three languages me yeah English Mal Mal English Tha and India also yeah four languages yeah yeah speak C Baza Malaysia baz I said I try to speak Malaysia he said good good what's the name Omar what is this Cal talame TR oh manise sweet see dual track see the train go by we would had to stop for that train that we just passed it' be probably a 15minute stop [Music] look like they've just had a very late rice Harvest so I don't know if we're going to see the beautiful green rice fields along the way here which is part of the highlight of this trip just before shaam between pety and shaam beautiful rice fields we'll see hopefully it's still light enough the train so relaxing you get up and walk around if you're in the new train you go to the dining car can't do that in the bus there you go watching the BBC something you can't do on a bus well maybe you can I'm a lot more comfortable to do it on a train why do they show these beautiful tropical beaches on the BBC oh there we go now reality there's a place I want to go as well that looks like a good show I'd watched that okay here's something might interest the viewer tie train guide tirau guide.com tring this is the Thai train tracking system system it tell you tells you where you are what's the next station and if you scroll down you can see the expect the time to arrive we're getting a little bit delayed right back to our regularly scheduled program beautiful views and relaxing Journey one thing I can say about the track is it's a lot smoother now super smooth hardly any moving back and forth or up and down the bogie is not jum jumping all around like it used to in the old days and we're just booking along [Music] here bad yeah always get the lower one because you get the window for the lower one the upper one no window and no climbing on the lower one either actually what I'll do is I'll put up a graphic of the new sty train versus the old Sal TR now I [Music] did and every seat SL bed has a plugin and a light good this is the uh first class cabin how much how much is this going for then um you can either you can put the whole cab into yourself right but you have to book it quick it's like 2,500 bar wow so you got your own basein do you got do you got a l or no it's at the end and there's a shower as well oh a shower as well here's a shower don't a shower about a hot water shower well there you go and they even have handicap washer it's massive as you can see here's another washer that is unique to the new [Music] trains this hats breakfast 180 it's all right really for being on a train three chicken chicken briani chicken [Music] masaman let's go have a w shall we trying to find a door where nobody's smoking so I can get some photos to say now that the sun's gone down it's quite nice and cool in here lovely I would definitely sit C Cloud no problem right now all the way down to Sun G or down to the Border not a [Music] chance special delivery people getting off Goods coming on it's all happening [Applause] here here comes another Hazard sitting in third class in the burning season after the Harvest sometimes you get smoke just blowing right in here you have soot covered all over your face how beautiful is that [Music] this has been going on for almost 45 minutes just probably 99% of this footage is going to stand up on The Cutting Room floor but I'm going to save it for [Music] myself so you want to take the bus [Music] really [Music] okay I think enough no looks like the beds are all made up bye Omar see you in yell great guy few people going to ha in just getting ready we're all to ha in who's going to win this hardest race I wonder we'll see I don't know if you can see that but that's the elevated track we're going up now here we go we're going up I was really hoping we would do this in the daytime in the daylight but unfortunately we're 30 minutes late so I missed the daylight but you can clearly see that we're we're on the elevated track normally we would be on that track right there oh there's the night market way down there looks jumping oh feels so strange going right past the old station there's the king's waiting room my favorite train station in all of Thailand I miss you here we are coming into the new [Music] station wow thank [Music] you it's just such a strange feeling coming into the new station hello those guys were also in second class get on that but you know what I'm going to revise that the reason why I always say look don't take third class is not because I don't like third class I've taken third class a 100 times I'm sure but a guy took third class on my advice and he said he had the worst journey of his life and he never looking your channel again blah blah blah then he stalked me for a number of months saiding me hate messages I'm going to find you buddy he's really really angry anyways ever since then I stopped recommending third class I always say I put a caveat you can take third class but it's a little bit uncomfortable yada yada but uh I can say in in the winter months I remember them as well this is all new to me too I don't this is all new it's the first time I in the station is there a lift over there okay started watching your videos very good if you need to sleep it's a good good way to get to sleep a lot of people got off in are in looks like they're on their way there she goes oh there's lift right there perfect I guess they had to have a lift didn't they really cuz this abled people Etc getting up the stairs you absolutely have to have it and just over here is Infamous soy 80 I was talking to a guy uh named Jim from Jim's bar a nice guy actually he's a Thai American who owns a bar he was hoping that this was going to improve the foot traffic on soy 80 when this opens so we'll see if that happens oh thank you C cup [Music] come exit and again it looks very much like they've got some more work to do here but it's definitely up and running as you can see oh we forgot to talk about the time right right I've been faffing about upstairs for about 15 minutes so let's just call it we arrived at 1027 okay to be honest my mind's jellous so I stepped away and I did the calculations the final tell is that bus trip that I took up from blueport to eami took 4 hours and just over 4 hours 4 hours and 5 minutes the train today took 3 hours and 40 minutes the winner the train it's not a science ific result by any means that bus did make a couple of stops along the way Etc so take from that what you will but for me now that the train is instead of being 5 hours it's say three and 1 half hours probably by the time they get it up to speed no pun intended if you prefer the bus stop you hope somewhere along the way so you can use the restroom and all of that no movement no walking about Etc then continue to use the bus okay I'm biased again if you like the bus go ahead take the bus for for me the train actually I'm a bit sad because the old train that took longer the longer it takes just adds to the journey as far as I'm concerned when you're on the train appears they're funneling you out to the old train station but how do you get out oh yes they are just simply go around here yeah it appears they're they're funneling you out to the old train station that's where they still got the T Tes and the taxis Etc meeting you so I don't mind I want to go and see the old train station of course looking back at the new station first you know it just it looks overly large doesn't it is it just me it looks like they could cover 20 Bogies or carriages or whatever you want to call them for new Meats old I think they've done a fine job really what beautiful gorgeous historic old station it's Irreplaceable I mean charm means history equals huahin railway station those statues are gone the signage is gone remember it would say station Master Etc waiting room all the signs are gone there it is closed up I need a tissue and I came to Thailand as a young backpack back or some 20 odd years ago and the first place I lived was right here in hen from that day to this day I arrived by the train and I've taken this train at least I I want to say 100 times but maybe that's an exaggeration but scores of times from H in over the years the iconic sign and of course the Royal waiting [Music] room old station New Station let's walk out to the road here and here's haai in in High season things are jumping as you can see at least the traffic is jumping okay just around the corner here is this iconic sign I wonder if they're what they're going to do with that that there's a keeper right [Music] there okay let's just cross over here fittingly to the the museum trains yeah that seems fitting somehow so whether you're taking a bus or the new train as far as I'm concerned hin is still one of the most magical places not just in Thailand but perhaps all the southeast Asia it doesn't have the perfect Beach it doesn't have great night life and all of that thank goodness it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of a tourist town again thank goodness but what it does have I'll tell you the one number one thing it has it's just a fantastic place to be and may she remain so by uban Rani UB okay come C let's go let's go few folks are now we're heading down to well you'll see in a minute how long is this video going to be a lot of stuff's going to end up in The Cutting Room floor [Music] sik okay yeah H te c yeah on te yeah this looks like an appropriate place to sign off it's making me a little bit sad to sign off there I was just having this Melancholy feeling and I thought where could I go to shake this feeling and I thought I know the beach I'm glad I came down at the beach I feel better already lifts my spirits so thanks for coming along today hope you enjoyed got lots more coming up now that I'm back in Thailand going to be doing a lot of exploring hope you'll come along for that in the meantime see you in the next one bye for now good [Music] night I leave what's left of last night behind and I need to get some piece of [Music] M and when I need some piece of mind I know where to find it [Music] is by the end of the road so I want can I keep pH [Music] walking the road
