This is great footage- thanks for posting! I was there in summer '96 passing through as a typical SE Asia backpacker. So much nostalgia for pre-internet / smart phone days. You really did feel like you were far away on the other side of the world back then.
yes. I hate today and all the people have their heads buried in their smart phones twiddling away. Used to walk around and chat and actually interact with people
yes, I did not even have a cell phone when I first went to Thailand in 2004. I called my home USA voice mail once a week using the phones at some of the internet cafes or street side phone use places. I loved the feeling of being away.
@@gkprivate433 Yes, exactly - I'd be sitting there eating and someone from some foreign country would ask if he'd mind if he sat down and chatted. "sure" and we went on like old pals. Or bumping into an Ozzy and a Kiwi and renting motorcycles and rode all over Samui. Then came the phones.
Me and a friend set up outside a jewellery shop on Khao San Rd in 92. We had bought loads of silver and stones in India and laid out a sarong on the pavement to turn quick profit. All the local stallholders were our main customers and bought quite a bit of stock. A few tourists bought a few bits. A couple of days later we were told, 'no more selling here, farang'. We noticed a lot of familiar jewellery designs on stalls up and down the road in the next few days! I haven't been there for more than 20 years but I can imagine how it looks now.
first went there in 94 , this is how i remember it , was there in 2023 ,quite different now but still good , i stay in Rambuttri village now , much quieter👍
I was there in '93, '95 and '96 - man, those were some good times! Buddy Guesthouse baby :) We'd come in from Japan after working as ALTs on the JET program and then stay on Khao San for a few days before transiting to Koh Phan Ghan for the full moon party. You'd meet all sorts of backpackers and then go out partying nonstop. Fun times!
I was there in 93', 94' and 95' during my backpacker days, doing ESL in Japan and Korea and saving up to spend months in SE Asia, India and Nepal. I never made it to the Full Moon Party but the Reggae Pub in Koh Samui was pretty fun. Good time indeed!
@@funkotron9198 We just moved off of Koh Samui (2023) and the husk of the Reggae Pub still stands. A guy was working on it when we left. I remember it before it burned down and got rebuilt. I hooked up with a Kiwi and an Ozzy and we rode motorcycles around Samui until I got sick as a dog. Good times, agreed!
Amazing video! I was there in 90 then 92, and it surprises me how little it had changed from then until this video was shot in 96. The last hurrah of pre-internet travel! I returned in 2012 and it was almost unrecognisable relative to the 90s.
What an amazing video!! I was there in 1995,96,97 and 98, so back in 2015,18!! LOVE here,so nice memories in here...thanks so much for this amazing videos!
I first stayed at beer & peachy GH from '92/'93 and for years after. Now it's a big green boutique hotel. But it hung in a long time. Good times but can't imagine living that basic for 2 years, good on ya!
Thanks very much for this, I love seeing what Thailand was like years ago, have spent alot of time in this area - great seeing how it used to be. So quiet
I was there in 84, there was one guesthouse opposite "hello restaurant". The bucket shops came later, where you could buy a cheap ticket anywhere in the world. The police station had cells the locals called the monkey house, if you stayed in a guest house nearby you could hear them call out all night. At the desk, there signs written in 4 languages, when to call your parents, and clocks set at different times around the world.
@@orangeearth4139 80:s best time to travel in SE asia. Because of expensive, often complicated, plane tickets, few tourists, relaxed, genuine, cheap. Today most Asians cities are the same, quite boring really, mass tourism.
First time i was there was '91, came there almost every year since. 90s were great !! Met many travellers back than, many became friends. Chanced a lot since then unfortunately...
Io nel '92 a Febbraio ero con mia madre in India, avevo solo 12 anni... Il primo impatto a quell'età con Bombay (ai tempi ancora con le fogne a cielo aperto, e quel tipico odore che impregnava tutto e tutti) fu ben oltre la soglia dell'indescrivibile. Poi venne Bali, Indonesia appena prima delle Torri Gemelle, estate 2001. La prima volta a Bangkok fu relativamente tardi - un anno dopo il mio secondo viaggio in India (il primo da solo), all'età di 33 anni, Ottobre 2013.
Everything has changed except the t-shirts, still selling the same ones lol. I wish I'd come earlier. I caught the end of pre-smartphone era in India but didn't make it to Thailand til recently.
Decided to chill and watch old vids of LOS today but ended up getting real sad. Been going to Thailand since '93 and now want to apologize to Thai people.
Well KSR has changed. They've removed the signs overhanging the sidewalk and installed bollards along the sides of the road. Thailand may be westernized too much but now it's conforming to the watered down whitebread version of the west. We live here now, in Thailand, and it's still here if we look.
This is great footage- thanks for posting! I was there in summer '96 passing through as a typical SE Asia backpacker. So much nostalgia for pre-internet / smart phone days. You really did feel like you were far away on the other side of the world back then.
Giant TV's in guest house restaurant/lobby full of backpackers watching Schwarzenegger VDO's together, and Talking to each other!
yes. I hate today and all the people have their heads buried in their smart phones twiddling away. Used to walk around and chat and actually interact with people
yes, I did not even have a cell phone when I first went to Thailand in 2004. I called my home USA voice mail once a week using the phones at some of the internet cafes or street side phone use places. I loved the feeling of being away.
@@gkprivate433 Yes, exactly - I'd be sitting there eating and someone from some foreign country would ask if he'd mind if he sat down and chatted. "sure" and we went on like old pals. Or bumping into an Ozzy and a Kiwi and renting motorcycles and rode all over Samui. Then came the phones.
@@gkprivate433ใช่มันแย่มาก อยากให้ทุกอย่างกลับไปเหมือน1980-1990ก่อนปี2000
This is cool, this is before all the internet cafés,, and now all the internet cafés are gone
The pre digital world was so vast and interesting compared to today.
Me and a friend set up outside a jewellery shop on Khao San Rd in 92. We had bought loads of silver and stones in India and laid out a sarong on the pavement to turn quick profit. All the local stallholders were our main customers and bought quite a bit of stock. A few tourists bought a few bits. A couple of days later we were told, 'no more selling here, farang'. We noticed a lot of familiar jewellery designs on stalls up and down the road in the next few days! I haven't been there for more than 20 years but I can imagine how it looks now.
Cool story !! (I am not being sarcastic lol😊)
first went there in 94 , this is how i remember it , was there in 2023 ,quite different now but still good , i stay in Rambuttri village now , much quieter👍
I was there in '93, '95 and '96 - man, those were some good times! Buddy Guesthouse baby :) We'd come in from Japan after working as ALTs on the JET program and then stay on Khao San for a few days before transiting to Koh Phan Ghan for the full moon party. You'd meet all sorts of backpackers and then go out partying nonstop. Fun times!
I was there in 93', 94' and 95' during my backpacker days, doing ESL in Japan and Korea and saving up to spend months in SE Asia, India and Nepal. I never made it to the Full Moon Party but the Reggae Pub in Koh Samui was pretty fun. Good time indeed!
@@funkotron9198 We just moved off of Koh Samui (2023) and the husk of the Reggae Pub still stands. A guy was working on it when we left. I remember it before it burned down and got rebuilt. I hooked up with a Kiwi and an Ozzy and we rode motorcycles around Samui until I got sick as a dog. Good times, agreed!
1:43 Selling "Original" Cassettes. Priceless.
I still have my "original" Yello Greatest Hits cassette I bought in KSR in 1993 :)
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Amazing video! I was there in 90 then 92, and it surprises me how little it had changed from then until this video was shot in 96. The last hurrah of pre-internet travel! I returned in 2012 and it was almost unrecognisable relative to the 90s.
Pre-internet, but more appropriately pre-smart phone.
@Peter Marshall The steel poles along KSR... just in time for the emptiness.
Past will never come back...those were really great times...forever gone..i was there too in 1996 and also many times b4 and after!
Iconic!
What an amazing video!! I was there in 1995,96,97 and 98, so back in 2015,18!! LOVE here,so nice memories in here...thanks so much for this amazing videos!
That’s how I remember it. Magical times
Yes, we were lucky.
Thank you for posting this! I lived there in 2001 - 2002 @ Peachy Guesthouse. Epic times. It's so cool to see Khao San in 1996.
I first stayed at beer & peachy GH from '92/'93 and for years after. Now it's a big green boutique hotel. But it hung in a long time. Good times but can't imagine living that basic for 2 years, good on ya!
Thanks very much for this, I love seeing what Thailand was like years ago, have spent alot of time in this area - great seeing how it used to be. So quiet
was cool in early 90s interesting travellers etc chilled somewhat
i had a stopover in Bangkok December 1995 on my flight to Melbourne... good times ! 5:18 min Phra Artit pier didin't changed so much the last 25 years
my first visit was 2004. Thailand was fading fast by then, but I got in on a lot of the goodness. been 15 times.
What do you mean it was "fading fast" in 2004?
I was there in 1997 so this is a real blast from the past. Thanks for posting, it was so much better in those days to how it is now ..
It changed so drastically...once it was a relative qiuet place for backpackers and now its a partyzone.
The late 90s when i went it was booming and the bars had no closing time per se.
No Chinese tourists, no Arabian tourists, no Indian tourists. Those were the good times.
the good ole days!!!
was there ins1990 91 - exactly as i remember it
First went in 2009..still great then
Before years bkk very good
Was there in 2001. An amazing time to be alive
4 years later I came here to khao san 2000
I was there in 84, there was one guesthouse opposite "hello restaurant". The bucket shops came later, where you could buy a cheap ticket anywhere in the world. The police station had cells the locals called the monkey house, if you stayed in a guest house nearby you could hear them call out all night. At the desk, there signs written in 4 languages, when to call your parents, and clocks set at different times around the world.
ozweird cox you win,I’m 1989
Wow how much would you budget per month in the early 80s? Time travel never ever looked so good!
@@orangeearth4139 80:s best time to travel in SE asia. Because of expensive, often complicated, plane tickets, few tourists, relaxed, genuine, cheap. Today most Asians cities are the same, quite boring really, mass tourism.
@@orangeearth4139 People would tell you not to go to Koh Samui with large notes like 100 baht because the locals couldn't change them.
thank you good one !
First time i was there was '91, came there almost every year since. 90s were great !! Met many travellers back than, many became friends. Chanced a lot since then unfortunately...
1989!
fashion wise, we're going back to the 90s in 2024.
Hi I love your footage. May I use some part of it for my dj playlist?
Of course!
Bei tempi io c'ero nel 92😭😉
Io nel '92 a Febbraio ero con mia madre in India, avevo solo 12 anni... Il primo impatto a quell'età con Bombay (ai tempi ancora con le fogne a cielo aperto, e quel tipico odore che impregnava tutto e tutti) fu ben oltre la soglia dell'indescrivibile. Poi venne Bali, Indonesia appena prima delle Torri Gemelle, estate 2001. La prima volta a Bangkok fu relativamente tardi - un anno dopo il mio secondo viaggio in India (il primo da solo), all'età di 33 anni, Ottobre 2013.
May I have permission to use the clip to expand on it or cut it to make a documentary?


Everything has changed except the t-shirts, still selling the same ones lol. I wish I'd come earlier. I caught the end of pre-smartphone era in India but didn't make it to Thailand til recently.
good times. Seems like yesterday
November rain by GNR-
Yes yes sell music tape. Not cd.
I Miss the bangkok
Not a mobile phone anywhere!
What brand camera model do you use?
I’d like to know too. The video is very clear
20 year ago
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What Song ?
Armando Bastien November rain
Guest House 1 night 150 Baht
Pad Thai only 10 Baht. hahaha
I used pay B120 in 2000
nothing changed till now poor country
Poor?why do Punjabi’s live there?
Should have been there in 1988!
It is a great surprise that Khao-san and around this area have little changed since then.
Still the same !
haha yes
but yous shoulda been there in 87/88/89/90 etc
I was just born back then.
Decided to chill and watch old vids of LOS today but ended up getting real sad. Been going to Thailand since '93 and now want to apologize to Thai people.
Well KSR has changed. They've removed the signs overhanging the sidewalk and installed bollards along the sides of the road. Thailand may be westernized too much but now it's conforming to the watered down whitebread version of the west. We live here now, in Thailand, and it's still here if we look.
Not much different from today
buddy man su
Smd
@@erichsoemantri5540 Indon.
Love it ty