Latest / bit of a Rambler / 029 Looking Out For Number One
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- 1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,640 Hello, my name is Kai and I am a bit of a rambler. 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:06,720 I like to travel, learn and tell stories. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:11,120 Today, let's talk about where do I start? 4 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:12,800 Where do you start traveling? 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,480 If you have a country that you have a burning desire to go to, like Korea because you like 6 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:22,560 K-drama or Turkey because you love K-bobbs, go to those places first because they're 7 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,280 gonna have what you want and it'll be cool. 8 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:29,920 But yeah, if you have a country you're fascinated with, go there first. 9 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:35,560 If you are into anime and you go to Japan, you're not gonna be disappointed. 10 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:41,480 They have manga anime museums, like it's great if you're interested in that culture. 11 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:45,080 So I'll start with that, go where you want to go. 12 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:50,400 But for everybody, the easiest place is any of the countries in Southeast Asia. 13 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:56,400 It is so easy to start traveling for all of the reasons that I'm going to lay out. 14 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,800 Let's start with what I like, one of those intangibles, how friendly everybody is. 15 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:05,320 I already couldn't believe it when I landed in Thailand. 16 00:01:05,320 --> 00:01:07,400 I've been there like a dozen times now. 17 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:14,240 They're all so nice and it's not a matter of the service people being polite and helpful 18 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:19,320 which everybody is in Southeast Asian countries but they're also just kind. 19 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:25,920 They're helpful when they don't need to be and it isn't overbearing either. 20 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,520 But some countries people can be helpful to an overbearing degree. 21 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:36,160 They're like, "Are you sure you're okay on that bicycle riding where you want to?" 22 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:37,160 And it's like on a busy street. 23 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:38,640 You're like, "No, I promise I'm fine." 24 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:40,760 They're like, "But are you lost? 25 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:42,400 I can take you somewhere if you're lost." 26 00:01:42,400 --> 00:01:44,400 No, no, it's okay. 27 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:48,440 In Southeast Asia, everybody will help you if you ask them for help. 28 00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:50,520 They'll leave you alone otherwise. 29 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,800 Anyone you talk to is going to be super nice. 30 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:57,840 I was kind of worried about going to Vietnam as an America because of our military history 31 00:01:57,840 --> 00:01:59,520 with that country. 32 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:04,240 But I discovered after I visited, Vietnam is probably the friendliest country I've ever 33 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,640 been to specifically as an American. 34 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:12,680 I was somewhat taken aback and extraordinarily grateful that everybody was so kind and helpful 35 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:13,680 there. 36 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,920 Of course, it doesn't hurt that they sort of kicked the US's butt in the war. 37 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:21,960 I imagine that contributed a bit to the generosity of goodwill I experienced while 38 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:22,960 there. 39 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:28,960 So, Southeast Asia, anywhere you want to go in Southeast Asia, whichever one is the most 40 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:36,560 interesting to you, Laos Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, wherever Indonesia, whatever sounds good 41 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:41,120 to you, you can go visit there and it'll be a good experience. 42 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:47,200 I would personally start in Thailand because there's going to be tons of other expats there, 43 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:48,960 foreigners, not from that country. 44 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:54,280 So you'll feel comfortable traveling to most of the initial starting destinations and you 45 00:02:54,280 --> 00:02:59,720 can ask people like, "Hey, so they have orange juice here, right?" 46 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,560 And everyone will be like, "Yeah, they do. 47 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,200 They have orange juice, don't worry." 48 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:07,720 So like all the silly questions that will seem silly after you've been there for a little 49 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:12,560 while, you can ask a bunch of other travelers around you and they'll help you out. 50 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:16,920 Thailand is also a great place to start out because their hospitals are so advanced and 51 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:18,600 their dental care is... 52 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:19,600 Basically, this... 53 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:25,840 I can see no difference between dental work in Thailand, dental work in the US and I needed 54 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:32,200 a lot beforehand because I ate rocks and sugar all the time. 55 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:38,200 So my teeth were terrible and I got fantastic dental care in Thailand and when I went back 56 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:43,560 to the States, all of the machines looked the exact same or older than all of the Thailand 57 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:44,560 machines. 58 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:51,080 The government spent a lot of money investing in medical infrastructure and it is paying 59 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:56,160 off because everybody in the know goes there for medical work because they have the same 60 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:00,800 tech as the US, they have the same training as the US and it's cheaper. 61 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:05,680 So yeah, go get the cheaper root canal instead of the really expensive one. 62 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:07,000 And it's not just dental care. 63 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:14,080 There are tons of fully equipped modern hospitals and clinics that offer diagnostic 64 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:22,740 tests, eye tests, eyeglasses, knee replacements, hip replacements, fertility treatments, 65 00:04:22,740 --> 00:04:28,560 cardiac surgeries, of course any kind of plastic surgery, really everything. 66 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:31,960 That's why I would choose Thailand specifically because they definitely have the most advanced 67 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:36,360 health services and advanced infrastructure among the Southeast Asian countries but they 68 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,280 have a similar or cheaper cost of living. 69 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:41,920 It's very cheap in Thailand. 70 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,560 So I guess we'll just talk about that. 71 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:46,240 How cheap is it in Thailand? 72 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,080 Private room, $200. 73 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:54,100 Private condo, like $300, private house, $400. 74 00:04:54,100 --> 00:05:00,720 But you can easily get a private room in an apartment for $200, $250. 75 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:06,320 Yeah, you'll have your choice of 50 different places in or around Bangkok which is I'm going 76 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:11,320 to say the only city I don't recommend you go to just because it very little walkability. 77 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:16,320 It's very difficult to walk around that city and it doesn't have anything that other Thai 78 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:18,680 cities don't have. 79 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:23,520 So I would start with any other place like Chiang Mai or Puket even even though it's a 80 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:30,080 crazy tourist island or Pataya, all these big cities I would just start outside of Bangkok, 81 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,160 maybe visit Bangkok for a week so you can say you were there. 82 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:41,280 But I don't like not being able to walk around without any sidewalks or any pedestrian 83 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:42,800 allowances made. 84 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:47,440 So I would recommend starting in any other place and Thailand is huge. 85 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:50,800 For reference, Thailand is almost the exact same size as France. 86 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:57,140 So it is a huge country with tons of towns, tons of good people and it's very cheap to 87 00:05:57,140 --> 00:05:58,240 live there. 88 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:01,880 Any of those places I mentioned, all the utilities are going to be included. 89 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:08,560 So you're paying $250 for a private room with air conditioning, hot water, wifi, electricity, 90 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:09,920 all included. 91 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:15,120 If you rent out a hotel for a month, you'll also have a daily cleaning service included. 92 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:20,160 It's just very cheap, very, and there's housing everywhere because it's the tourist destination 93 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:21,640 of the world. 94 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,360 Everybody starts cooking at 5 p.m. by sunset. 95 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,640 There's people lining the street selling food. 96 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:29,200 Everything costs less than a dollar. 97 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:33,200 If you get a full plate of food, it might cost $2 or whatever, $3. 98 00:06:33,200 --> 00:06:35,600 Who knows, Bangkok might be more expensive. 99 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:37,920 But it's the food is cheap. 100 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,160 The medicine is very cheap and they have, like I said, the medical infrastructure. 101 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,040 So they have all the medicines you need. 102 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,600 They certainly have cancer medication. 103 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:49,320 They definitely have transition medication because they're not as weird about genders as 104 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,240 most of the world is. 105 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:57,000 You can just access, you can get the medication you need in Thailand and access the doctors 106 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,280 and make appointments for them to look at you as you need it. 107 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:04,080 Dental work readily available and cheaper. 108 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:09,760 Everything is cheap in Thailand and very accessible even to the tourists. 109 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:14,720 Oh, I guess we'll move on to travel real quick because it pertains to the inexpensive cost 110 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:16,120 of Thailand. 111 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,040 Like I said, Thailand is huge and there are so many places that you should visit. 112 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:26,440 There are tiger sanctuaries that you can go to, where I almost got eaten by a tiger. 113 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:27,440 No exaggeration. 114 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,800 They were like smacking the tiger with sticks and yelling at it to get him to stop coming 115 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:33,040 after me. 116 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:36,720 I hastily exited the pen when the coast was clear. 117 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:43,960 But I did get to pedategher and elephant exhibits and I mean, really cool museums all over 118 00:07:43,960 --> 00:07:44,960 the place. 119 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,320 There are those seven layer waterfalls. 120 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:48,320 They're hiking. 121 00:07:48,320 --> 00:07:53,880 There's, ooh, the Snake Museum they have in Bangkok is really, okay, you should go to Bangkok 122 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:54,880 for the Snake Museum. 123 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:55,880 Never mind. 124 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,000 Go to the Sao Papa Snake Memorial Museum. 125 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:05,520 They have like 20 foot anacondas and just very cool snakes, like a couple hundred of them. 126 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:09,240 Bangkok has really great modern art museums and museums in general also. 127 00:08:09,240 --> 00:08:13,160 So if you like learning about culture or seeing what the modern art trends are in that 128 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,720 country, there are very cool museums to go to. 129 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:21,160 And they have local artisans in one of the floors so you can hire a guy to do a charcoal 130 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:26,920 portrait of your face or buy some hand carved wooden trinkets or whatever you're interested 131 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:27,920 in. 132 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,560 Oh, you know, go to Bangkok. 133 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:36,000 There's so many people there that Komodo dragons have gotten or no, I guess they're monitor 134 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,480 lizards, not specifically Komodo dragons. 135 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:44,100 But there's like two to three foot monitor lizards just walking around the biggest loom 136 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:51,440 peony, loom peony park is the biggest park in Bangkok and they just have water monitor lizards 137 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,880 walking in and out of the bodies of water in that park all day. 138 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:00,760 And you can just watch like a three or four foot monitor lizard just strolling about without 139 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:02,160 a care in the world. 140 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:03,160 It's very cool. 141 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:04,160 There's a bunch of them. 142 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:05,400 Okay, it's worth it for that. 143 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:06,400 Go to the loom peony park. 144 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,200 Go to the savava snake memorial. 145 00:09:08,200 --> 00:09:11,160 But then go to the other cities because they're way quieter. 146 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,480 They're much less busy and they still have all the other good stuff. 147 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,920 I think some of them have snake exhibits also. 148 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,720 Travel is just as cheap and Thailand is huge. 149 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:25,840 So you'll want to travel to a lot of different places around the country and it is. 150 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:27,440 Incredibly cheap to do that. 151 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:32,720 It's 20 bucks to go across the entire country on a bus with air conditioning and like a wall 152 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:36,040 plug-ins so you can charge your phone the whole time reclining seats so you can lay down 153 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:40,040 and sleep for a nice 10 hour drive across the country. 154 00:09:40,040 --> 00:09:42,520 So you can get around the whole country super easily. 155 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:47,200 And the 20 bucks is like the expensive nice air condition ride. 156 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:52,760 You can also there's these red truck taxis that go between cities and they're only like 157 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:54,760 I can't remember. 158 00:09:54,760 --> 00:10:01,240 I think they're 20 bought which is 60 cents and that'll take you like 20 miles between 159 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:07,480 if there's one 20 50 miles away they'll drive you for an hour for less than a dollar 160 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:09,200 and you can get to that city that way. 161 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:14,720 I as soon as I found out what the red trucks were I was like well I got to try that. 162 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:21,800 And it's you're riding in the bed of a truck with like metal benches bolted to the bed. 163 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:28,280 So not as comfortable as the air condition bus with electricity and Wi-Fi but still I 164 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:29,800 mean it's a pretty fun experience. 165 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,480 It's definitely how all the locals travel between towns. 166 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:36,760 Yeah it costs nothing to travel all around the country once you're in the country and there 167 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:38,560 are plenty of things you should visit. 168 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:45,200 Oh or you can rent a motor scooter for five bucks a day sometimes less and you can drive 169 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,200 around as much of the country as you want on that thing and send it back. 170 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,400 You can even just buy a scooter for a few hundred dollars and then return it and sell it back 171 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,280 to them when you're done. 172 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,120 Thailand is cheap. 173 00:10:57,120 --> 00:11:01,480 Great place to start out because you don't have to worry about spending too much money. 174 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:02,720 Climate. 175 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,640 It's comfortable especially if you don't like snow it's obviously going to be very hot 176 00:11:06,640 --> 00:11:12,400 and humid on the equator all year but there are different spots you can live in different 177 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:16,560 elevations so you can get away from the humidity if you go up into the mountains and like 178 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:21,360 I said it's very cheap to get there but it's beautiful. 179 00:11:21,360 --> 00:11:24,680 It's generally beautiful all year. 180 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:29,720 There's like no pollution outside of the middle of Bangkok or something. 181 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:38,240 You just have green jungles and animals living like a thriving ecosystem bodies of water 182 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:43,960 absolutely beautiful country in every nook and cranny. 183 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,520 Yeah it's clear blue skies all day every day. 184 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:49,080 They have a monsoon season. 185 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:53,320 If you're in some parts of the country it'll be rainier but that's awesome also. 186 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:56,920 If you don't like that just go to the other part of the country or fly to another country 187 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,800 for twenty bucks because you're already in Asia and avoid the monsoon season. 188 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:08,040 But the climate is nice pretty much year round and the temperatures very comfortable year 189 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:12,920 round but if it's too hot for you like it is too hot for me type people living it they 190 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:19,280 don't mind and I'm actually used to a very hot humid climate but I don't like it so I 191 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:25,320 will spend most of the day in an air conditioned room if I'm not outside seeing or riding a bike 192 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:29,800 to a waterfall or something and at the end of the day when the sun starts going down I 193 00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:34,160 go out and start getting barbecue and a couple beers. 194 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:40,400 Ooh which brings us to the food great reason to make tile-anger first destination. 195 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:45,440 Obviously they have the Thai Carries which are good but not my favorite Carries in the 196 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:50,520 world but even if they just had the Carries it would be fantastic but they're so much 197 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:51,520 good food. 198 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:57,280 I like street food myself I prefer mom and pop shops and stalls on the street to a lot 199 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:58,840 of fancy restaurants. 200 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:04,720 Yeah I just have way more fun on the street obviously it's cheaper but I've very rarely 201 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:12,520 gone to a very nice restaurant and thought wow I really got what I paid for this this 202 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:23,320 was cooked correctly I've had too many poorly cooked steaks at exorbitantly expensive restaurants 203 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:26,000 to value them very highly anymore. 204 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:28,640 In Thailand I'm going to have that problem. 205 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:33,400 Ten bought which is like 30 cents is very common for a stick of grilled chicken or grilled 206 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:37,600 pork you can get that everywhere there's everyone's going to be selling it around dinner 207 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,200 time. 208 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:44,120 So there's yeah there's barbecue of course there's tons of fresh grilled fish caught that 209 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:49,760 day salted and grilled for you stuffed with chili peppers which I love or no chili peppers 210 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:55,160 if you don't like spicy stuff there are spicy stir fry there's all kinds of stir fries. 211 00:13:55,160 --> 00:14:00,120 There's all kinds of Thai food and all of it is good and then there's also every other 212 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:08,400 culture food because Thailand is such a global hub that you can get Chinese food and Japanese 213 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:17,160 food and German food Belgian waffles you'll get every type of food in any Thai city because 214 00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,080 people love traveling Thailand it's a great place to travel and after you live there for 215 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:25,600 a couple months you'll probably after I lived there for a week I was like I could live here 216 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:30,040 the rest of my life this would be pretty this would be an easy spot to lay my hat. 217 00:14:30,040 --> 00:14:36,720 I like traveling so I haven't but you can see why so many people do so whatever food you 218 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:41,960 like it's there in Thailand waiting for you to come enjoy it at a much cheaper price 219 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:46,520 than you would pay in whatever country they usually make that food in so you have all 220 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:52,520 kinds of great Thai dishes oh my gosh and all you can eat buffets I almost forgot to mention 221 00:14:52,520 --> 00:15:00,000 that Thailand has all you can eat buffets oh my gosh and they're so good. 222 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:04,400 Like all types of meat or vegetables whatever you want and you can get vegetarian broth 223 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:12,600 or non-vegetarian but like thinly sliced beef and some of them have sushi as well so you 224 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:20,280 have hot pot and sushi for how much was that 11 dollars so the one I like that had sushi 225 00:15:20,280 --> 00:15:28,200 and hot pot was 11 dollars but you don't have to pay 11 dollars that's actually an expensive 226 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:33,840 price for all you can eat that usually comes with a time limit you can only eat for 90 minutes 227 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:40,400 or two hours but that's a lot of time all you can eat for 11 dollars and then there's 228 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:48,200 like more local spots and those will be closer to $7.5 to $7 and the only real difference 229 00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:53,680 is that they'll only have like Thai hot pot and they might not flavor it as strongly like 230 00:15:53,680 --> 00:16:00,680 the fancy hot pot sushi places for $11 but obviously $7 all you can eat you can eat once a day $7 231 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:06,840 all you can eat and you'll be fine like you'll be full no you can't take it to go just shove 232 00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:14,200 it in your body and then there's the real local places which are outdoors all you can eat 233 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:19,720 and those are like $3 and you can just eat as much as you want and they won't have the 234 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:24,840 same availability they won't have all the different meats they might not have they'll probably 235 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:31,000 not have all the seafood the 11 dollar ones will have unlimited seafood as well but for $3 236 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:36,240 you can eat unlimited meat and unlimited 20 different kinds of vegetables hot pot in 237 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:43,560 just yeah $3 for all you can eat food it's amazing it's an amazing deal and it's worth 238 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:50,560 it and the food tastes great yeah so the food is fantastic in Thailand so glad I didn't forget 239 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:58,680 the all you can eat but face services I've mostly touched on this but let's just recap travel 240 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:04,000 you can travel anywhere in the country for incredibly cheap you can get from one end of Bangkok 241 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:08,080 to the other for 60 cents which is a lot of trouble for the people to drive so that's 242 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:14,560 why it's the same cost as if you drove for 10 kilometers outside of the city or 50 kilometers 243 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:20,440 outside of the city from town to town which would also be like a dollar or whatever but 244 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:26,920 it's very cheap to get on the local taxis you get on taxy tell them where you're going 245 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,880 they'll tell you how much pain you give them money and they always give you the correct 246 00:17:29,880 --> 00:17:35,640 change because they're so professional and polite and cool okay so travel is taking 247 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:41,200 care of local travel infrastructures great in Thailand and it's not super fancy although 248 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:46,240 they do have the fancy buses but it certainly works great and is a great value for your 249 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:53,520 money other services I have referenced health very easy to get a doctor's appointment if 250 00:17:53,520 --> 00:18:02,760 you want to pay like double the local rate which is less than a quarter of any cheap American 251 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:09,000 service you will you can see a doctor immediately and even if you don't like I actually went 252 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:16,720 to a doctor and I just had a question about a bump on my skin and he looked at it was 253 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:22,880 like nope that one's good by I didn't have to pay anything he just he was just like that 254 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:26,980 was small don't worry about it have a good day that that show I've been traveling for over 255 00:18:26,980 --> 00:18:32,700 a decade and when he did that I was just like what I don't have to pay anything and then I ran 256 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:37,380 away before they could change their mind but yeah their health services are also great so if 257 00:18:37,380 --> 00:18:44,700 you need an ultrasound treatment to get rid of fibroids or if you need physical therapy 258 00:18:44,700 --> 00:18:50,820 or anything really their hospitals especially in the larger cities are top tier their great 259 00:18:50,820 --> 00:18:56,380 hospitals and number one is dentist they have all your dental needs covered so health 260 00:18:56,380 --> 00:19:02,180 services totally taken care of as well oh and you can get insurance very easily if you're 261 00:19:02,180 --> 00:19:08,580 going to Thailand for cheap like a hundred bucks for a couple months and that insurance all 262 00:19:08,580 --> 00:19:12,980 you have to do is file the claim and they will pay for your medical procedures in Thailand 263 00:19:12,980 --> 00:19:20,300 entertainment Thailand is entertainment country you can pay 20 bucks and go shoot guns 264 00:19:20,300 --> 00:19:26,260 at the local police station beers everywhere they're raising the price on beer and 265 00:19:26,260 --> 00:19:31,660 Thailand recently but that's probably a good thing because boy it was cheap and reckless 266 00:19:31,660 --> 00:19:38,580 before now it's pretty common to see a dollar or more for a beer which before was not the 267 00:19:38,580 --> 00:19:44,340 case it was less than 50 cents you can also just buy the local whiskey which is like a dollar 268 00:19:44,340 --> 00:19:50,100 for a bottle it's that's some you can still get drunk cheap in Thailand and then there's 269 00:19:50,100 --> 00:19:56,060 all the bars and the dance clubs if you like nightlife there's a billion raves there's 270 00:19:56,060 --> 00:20:00,220 a lot of live music which I really like because I that's probably the number one thing I miss 271 00:20:00,220 --> 00:20:04,900 from the states is just seeing a local band all the time and in some countries that's difficult 272 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:10,940 that's not very difficult in Thailand especially if you're in a city there's tons of live 273 00:20:10,940 --> 00:20:17,900 bands playing in any city in cool little spots it's always set up really nice the accommodation 274 00:20:17,900 --> 00:20:22,220 industry is second to nine you can get any kind of accommodation you want in any part of 275 00:20:22,220 --> 00:20:29,220 Thailand very simply through an app or in person if you just walk around you'll be able to find 276 00:20:29,220 --> 00:20:35,060 the star level of accommodation you're looking for all the services are there so that's 277 00:20:35,060 --> 00:20:40,460 just what I'm trying to get across any anything you're trying to get done in Thailand housing 278 00:20:40,460 --> 00:20:45,260 or utilities or whatever you're trying to get done you'll be able to get it done very easily 279 00:20:45,260 --> 00:20:50,340 sim card is a great example okay so let's say you need a sim card in a lot of countries 280 00:20:50,340 --> 00:20:55,640 you should get at the kiosk when you get out of the airport because it's simple but in 281 00:20:55,640 --> 00:21:01,940 Thailand don't go to seven eleven get a sim card you buy it like you buy anything else 282 00:21:01,940 --> 00:21:08,740 at the counter and then they will pop it in your phone for you and you will have unlimited 283 00:21:08,740 --> 00:21:16,300 data for a month it's so simple it's very cheap it's like twelve dollars I think for 284 00:21:16,300 --> 00:21:21,580 unlimited five G for the month and you can get a cheaper one if you want to and they do 285 00:21:21,580 --> 00:21:27,140 it for you right there and activate it for you on your phone so you don't have to do anything 286 00:21:27,140 --> 00:21:34,380 so it's just a very convenient service oriented country that you can enjoy and appreciate 287 00:21:34,380 --> 00:21:39,700 Thailand is also very central so you can get to so many other countries for less than a couple 288 00:21:39,700 --> 00:21:45,300 hundred bucks like under a hundred dollars from Thailand let's say you leave in a couple 289 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:56,260 days get cam Bodia 60 bucks Malaysia 63 Viet Nam 75 Laos 81 China 91 Indonesia 97 and then 290 00:21:56,260 --> 00:22:04,020 under 200 Burma Taiwan Singapore Bangladesh India Philippine South Korea Japan 150 like 291 00:22:04,020 --> 00:22:11,940 it's just so cheap to fly to so many places including Western Europe the UK's 200 bucks 292 00:22:11,940 --> 00:22:18,900 France is 230 Poland's 250 New Zealand is 260 it's just a very cheap country to fly out of 293 00:22:18,900 --> 00:22:22,900 even if you're flying right away if you plan ahead or check the prices every now and then 294 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:27,460 you'll get even better prices so if you like to travel and you think you're going to keep 295 00:22:27,460 --> 00:22:32,900 traveling Thailand is a great place to start because once you're there there are flights 296 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:39,620 going everywhere for very reasonable prices if you have a country you know you want to see first 297 00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:46,500 go to that country if you have no idea Thailand is a great place to start you can write to me at 298 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:51,540 bit of a rambler at gmail.com and I will see you on the next one 299 00:22:51,540 --> 00:23:12,780 Thanks for watching.