Local Life in Thailand: Meeting The People
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Today, I'm taking you on an adventure to the heart of Lampang, Thailand! 🇹🇭 Early bird style, we're hitting the streets and making sure we catch this city coming to life.
First stop: We're rolling out to check out the swanky road in Lampang that used to be home to the rich and famous. It's all about that history.
Then, we're diving headfirst into the town center. You won't believe how vibrant and real local Northern Thailand life is. But you know what really sets the stage? The morning market!
And here's the kicker - I was the ONLY foreigner in sight. It's like I stepped into a whole different world, way different from the hustle and bustle of Chiang Mai.
So, come vibe with me as we explore this traditional Thai city.
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Adding separately, this is a gr8 business model 'Off the beaten track series - towns of Northern Thailand rarely on the tourist radar' . visiting these places and interaction with the locals even via the lens of your camera, really interesting for sure. Great work Wayne 🤩
Yes, it is something that fits my style. I would rather get in amongst the people then go to temples and tourist places. I can't interact with them in Thai language, but as you mentioned, I can with the camera. Thanks man.
Lampang definitely has its own vibe and feel. Don't see Farang there because no girlie bars and loud music. Thanks for the walk.😎
Yes, that would have a big factor in it. Not much goes on in Lampang.
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Hey man, thanks ! I think it's more just waffling though 🤣
Loved this Wayne. So familiar with the rock star feel walking around non tourist Thailand. It is true that you become the centre of attention. Everyone looking and smiling and wanting to talk to you whilst the little kids hide, open eyed behind the parent's legs looking up blank faced as if you are the man from the moon having never seen a farang before. So funny. Brings back so many memories of the wife's rural town of Lukkae and its markets about 30 km outside Kanchanaburi in Thamaka district. I really do miss those trips back in the day. Will have to revisit sometime in the future. Noted soooo many Thais still getting around with masks on there. Wondering why these days post Covid. Interesting that. Cheers mate 🤩
It's a nice feeling being one of the only foreigners around. We don't get that in Chiang Mai and other places. Make me feel more alive. I think I prefer the quiet small towns over the well known places mate. Yes, still masks everywhere buddy, they just love wearing them. It puzzles me aswell. Thanks mate.
That food looked a bit of a struggle 🤣 but of course, you have to say aloy mak haha fair play for trying it lol 👍
🤣 Yes, had to be polite. It was the after taste though, it hits a few minutes later.
I believe the statue is Rama V (according to the sign beside it) - You probably remember him as Chulalongkorn (as in the film "The King And I")
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lampang has that o happy days vibes to it 🐔😊
Oooo happy days 👍😁
hey wayne, im gonna be in thailand from xmas eve till 19 jan. gonna try have a couple of weeks in chiang mai.. we gotta meet up for a coffee and something to eat. on me of coarse
That's great Stephen, I should be around but can't be 100%. Hope to see you in CM mate 👍
Happy days Wayne!
Happy Days mate 👍
Nice one Wayne.
You're certainly getting out there covering as much as you can.
Does your arsh have a bridge fetish we need to talk about mate?
haha cheers Jefe mate, I wasn't leaving without a shot of that bridge.
@WalkAboutWayne Thanks for keeping it tasteful and not taking any footage from under the bridge...
I really love the rice 🍚 porridge with pork in the early morning Wayne can’t beat it
Not for me buddy, to much rice during the day. I need my Oats and soy milk in the mornings
@@WalkAboutWayne do you get porridge oats over there Wayne
@@roberthornbrook8374 Yes, I get Australian Oats.
I think the dessert that a lady in the market gave you is Khanom Tien. People like to eat in many occasions.
The statue that you saw in the museum is The Great King Rama the Fifth (His Majesty King Chulalongkorn).
And if you want to take a photo of a white bridge, there is another famous one on the way back to Chiangmai. You shall pass if you ride back. That one is the white railway bridge in the middle of a field in Mae Tha, Lamphun. Have a good time.
Yes, I been to that bridge before Tracy. Thanks 👍
Still a nice town with nice people Wayne, but I remember it from decades ago being poorer but peaceful and not as neglected looking, perhaps the money has went somewhere else? As you were walking around the streets, I had lunch with my friends who had family in America, and as we were waiting for our lunch, a Soy puppy dog started to choke to death on a chunk of hard, dry rice it found, but my friend's wife and her cousin (the young lady my Thai friends in America wanted me to meet), jumped to action, grabbed the Soy Puppy and one held it's mouth open while my lady friend rang her finger down it's throat until she removed the chunk of hard rice, both getting slightly bit in the process. I can't think of many places in the world where you find people who would do that.
I recall another example in Chiang Mai where I though a very aggressive Thai-Chinese restaurant owner brutally canned some Soy dogs that were pestering the customers, when very crippled young man crawled past the customers on his elbows and knees. And two French tourist ladies started demanding he remove the young man as he was spoiling their meal. An as the Restaurant owner barked something at the young man and grabbed his bamboo Cain he just used on the dogs, I though "I can't bare to watch this," as the French ladies continued with their demands the crippled young man be removed... But rather than use the cane on the young man, the restaurant owner used it one more time to shoo Soy Dogs away from the crippled may, as he told the French ladies to Shut up.
He then neglected his customers to bring out a short table and cushion for the young mad to lie on. He got the young man a drink brought him a dinner and sat and joked so the young man everyone was appalled by would not have to eat alone. On seeing that human to human act of compassion that the Restaurant owner took as routine and natural, I had too push back some tears seeing such compassion as the two French ladies, now humbled shed a few tears.
That was on of several experiences in Thailand, that changed me from the inside out, And more than any other country I visited in Asia had a unique duality where people (In the north at least) had profound sense of compassion and value of life for most things.
I had few unexpected heart-melting experiences of kindness in Japan as I did in Thailand changed my view and faith in humanity and helped from my love for Thailand and Japan. I've been away from northern Thailand a long time, but I hope that spirit of kindness that we might not see Vlogs is still there.
Thanks "Chap" and Cheers!
Wow, great write up Jack, thanks for sharing Chap.
@@WalkAboutWayne Thank Wayne!
FYI:
I just compared what I copied before I hit the ''Reply' button to what was online and as I've seen before, some fragments of what I wrote are missing: "As you were walking around the streets, (... I recalled many years ago, a lunch in Lampang... ) I had lunch with my friends who had family in America..."
I've also had a couple of comments removed and was placed in 'Comment Jail' for esoteric comments on your channel about the places you've been and what you are sharing. I also got a YT warning that if I leave more such comments my channel will be Removed.
As this has happened on other channel. one where I simply commented ebikes, and another Refugee video expressing hope, Perhaps I'm being stocked and targeted, but if you don't see me around it's likely because I've been excommunicated.
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This is the real Thailand chaing Mia now is good but to commercialised these shops remind me of the shops in Bangkok near onnut the old fashioned buildings I love that Wayne very authentic this place
Yes, Lampang is very non tourist. It feels amazing.
Wayne going to think twice before accepting unknown food from vendors. 😂
🤣 Yes, I will give it a sniff first, next time haha. It wasn't bad, just a bit tangy.
@@WalkAboutWayne I don’t know your face had that look. 🤢😂
Hello Wayne,
What is the name of the hotel you've stayed and would you recommend it ?
Mike
Netherlands
Hi Mike, I stayed at a hotel called "Ma Chic & Cozy" I do recommend this one mate, it was a great place and right near the plaza 👍
@@WalkAboutWayne Thank you so much Wayne,!
Regards Mike.
I met a girl from here Wayne but I thought she was a bit young for me lol 😂 but they seem more friendly and sincere here than the tourist parts
Half your age +7 is the formula that works apparently
Send me the address and I'll go and say hi 🤣
@@WalkAboutWayne 😂
Lampang looks like a cool little city to visit. How far away from Chiang Mai is it Wayne? 😊
Great town, Kirsty. It's about 1 and half hours away, so not far. The train runs from Chiang Mai also. Thank you for my Green teas 🙏
@@WalkAboutWayne No worries! Take it easy 🙂
Mmmm interesting and almost puzzling 🤔 place; English more widely spoken then normal but seen no westerns around. Take care mate 😎👍
That puzzled me a bit also. I'm really surprised by some of the English here. I can't even recall seeing 1 foreigner while doing this video.
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dont know how it is where you are at the moment but the guy on the bike with police on it might actually be a policeman , in some parts of thailand the oficers need to buy there own uniforms and stuff and they usually ride their own vehicles too, think they get a compensation for it but still they own the vehicle so they use it privately too
Yeah, it could have been that buddy. I did see some police around though, and they was all full uniform and police bikes.
Speaking of Police, did you see any in Lampang?
I noticed many motorcycle riders with no helmets, maybe not enforced in Lampang?
I seen a few around, but nothing seems to be enforced here. You.can do what you want on the road here .
Wat Phra That Lampang Luang. (No. 1 important temple in Lampang). I recommend you to travel there.
It's a nice temple 👍
King no. 5 he was king 100 years ago
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Or I'm too pretty to be a foreigner travelling in Thailand 😅
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Why not try a few words of Thai. How can you meat locals when you have no idea what they are saying.
Easy, you do your best and make do with the words you know. 👍 I was saying "a few words of Thai"