for him. for the driver. for the driver. for him. hello, my friends! i'm dmitry shamov. we continue our travelling across thailand. we've come to bangkok and already spent here a day visiting night market and walking the streets. today we'll go the center of bangkok to see the sights of this capital.
Chitralada Palace, we're in another taxi. here you can see lots of pictures and statuettes of a recently passed away king. looking at this you see how much thai people respected and loved their king. i've never seen anything like that before.
there are lots of white and black cloths and pictures of the king hanging all over the city. a taxi we went by last time had a counter, this one doesn't. you just need to haggle over price. we were offered to go for 300 baht, but we said it's too much and agreed on 250. we want to see the temples in the center. first, we wanted to see the royal palace, temple of reclining buddha and other majestic buildings. but that time they were helding ceremonies to commemorate the king of thailand. and a local guide offered us the other route. he suggested one and a half hour ride by boat on canals of bangkok and its neighboorhoods and we agreed. to get to a quay, we went by a popular in thailand auto rickshaw called here tuk-tuk.
basically, it' a motorized version of an ordinary rickshaw, that also wildly used in tourism in japan. the motorized version got wide use in india, indonesia, thailand and some other countries. tuk-tuk is a cheap three-wheeled taxi, where you have to agree the price. and don't forget to bargain. now we gonna take a boat to go to a village and visit a floating market. we were said that a 90-minutes ride on canals of bangkok and its neighbourhoods will cost 1,500 baht per person. but as we know about the bargain in thailand, first we made it down to 1,200 and then to 800 baht. maybe it's still an overprice, but as we don't know the local fees, we were glad to get almost 50% discount. for boating the canals they use the traditional thai long-tail boats, known here as ruea hang yao. it's one of the most wildly used watercraft in thailand.
the long-tail boats have a narrow long form up to 20-30 meters. down the stern stretches a long tail with a big engine taken from a truck or a pickup. it allows to sail both on the depth and narrow bangkok streets. the boat has a tent and a few benches for tourists. the bow of this transport is decorated with flowers, candles and incense sticks every day. the thai people believe that thus a spirit of me ya nang keeps them away from troubles. we're on our way to an old thai village. actually, we wanted to see the temples, but they have ceremonies at the moment. we were told to come later.
one of the guides offered us this trip, so we came here. i think all those shabby houses you can see belong to poor people. what do you think, miki? it's fun, but feels like i'm inside of typhoon. the wind is strong. stronger than before. - hope you guys can hear me. - i think they do. we're testing a new microphone which records the sound saparatly, that we'll synchronize with the video. looks like youkai. (supernatural creature from japanese myphology) it's great fun. the trip lasts for an hour. we wanted to go to the other place.
but we can't get there now. we were told we can look at an old thailand while we've got some time. it's not really what i expected. about a couple of hours drive from bangkok there's a floating market with boats where you can buy things. we don't have time though. we'd like to see the temples. and we were told that there's a small local floating market here. the boats will come to us, not we to them. we'll show you if we see them.
eventually we met this man who offered us to buy cola for 300 baht and beer for our driver for 400. the price is too high, not to mention the driver drinking during the trip. we didn't buy anything. and it looked nothing like a floating market. across the whole bangkok runs the chao phraya river, the ride on that lies through the slums and poor neighboorhoods. the guide said we'll pass an old real thailand, but i didn't expect anything like that. the slums consist of various hovels, sheds and god knows how bound pieces of iron, being someone's home. reminds me of that slumdog millionaire movie. almost every house has ropes with hanging clothes and different boxes, proving that it's not just a pile of garbage, but someones home.
i was really surprised to see lots of satellite dishes. seems like poor people like watching tv. the river water is dirty as you can clearly see, but local people fish here sometimes and even swim. magnificent temples covered with gold clearly stand out among these slums. although i liked the boat ride, it left some unpleasant feeling. watching films about poor life is one thing, but seeing it with your own eyes is different. we've bought a bottle of water here for 10 baht. we thought to buy a juice, but there were many insects flying around, so we didn't. when our ride was over, we still had half an hour before the opening so we decided to grab some lunch.
we're in a restaurant thinking what to choose from thai food. unfortunately, they have shripms almost everywhere, but i can't eat them. i've noticed that shrimps are often used in thai cuisine, even italian pasta is cooked with them. pad thai. i finally ordered it. yesterday we saw how it was cooked in the street and i wanted to try it. first you need to squeeze the lime. now you can eat. it's something like japanese yakisoba. looks delicious. - ah, right. pasta with shrimps, so dima can't eat it. - yeah, but i want to.
it tastes with shrimps. - i want it too. - you can't. pasta is sweet-spicy. reminds me of yakisoba. delicious. i can eat three of this. - and it doesn't cost much. about 140 baht? - yes. then i certainly can. i took beef fried with basil, sauce and different spices. i looked over the whole menu. they serve either japanese, thai or chinese food, but everything's with shrimps, so i had to take this.
i like beef anyway. i think it must be good. and the sauce isn't like in japan, it's in thai style, at least that's what the menu says. spicy, but tasty. tastes as if green kari was mixed with beef and some spices i don't the name of. very spicy. i need some water...but it's still tasty. ah, i'm alive. it seems like the main thing is not meat, but all these herbs, basil...oh, there's even a pepper. well, let's eat. sometimes street decoration and local design solution can surprise you.
if the bycicles look stylish, then a peeing dog in front of a restaurant does not. there are pay-toilets in thailand called luxury toilet. actually, all toilets here in malls and anywhere else are quite good and clean, so i don't see much point in these ones. then we went to see the grand palace, that has been the residence of the kings for centuries. they check everybody thoroughly at the entrance. they searched every single pocket of my bag. it took two minutes or so. just at the entrance we saw a little performance of the thai soldiers. the beginning. the end.
we're going to the entrance, but they have strict rules about clothes. you cannot wear shorts, sandals, short-sleeved dresses or shirts. they must be at least like mine. and some jeans or trousers, but not ripped. they check it all. even if you're wearing a shawl above a sleeveless shirt, it won't work. let's go. maybe they won't let me like this. so i took this.
- they don't let in sneakers, right? - yes. miki says you can't wear sneakers here, only ordinary shoes. it's hot. it's so hot, but we have to wear jeans and long-sleeved shirts. but these are the rules. you can find many travellers who say that you mustn't wear in the temple shirts like these, shorts and sandals, but it's ok to put on a shawl. actually, it's not. they've got a new rule saying that you can't wear a scarf or a shawl. they won't let you in and you'll be asked to come next time or to change your clothes.
if you ever come to thailand, keep in mind that you should wear some jeans and a t-shirt like this or something long-sleeved, so you won't have any problems. we've got tickets. it's 500 baht per person. we were just in time. and they really don't let in with bare arms and legs. the rules are stricter for women. you can't just put something around your shoulders. well, let's go. i wonder what we will see.
everything seems so unreal. the gold and frescoes are everywhere. amazing! i've seen places like this in the pictures and now i finally see it in real. if you've ever played far cry 4, there are places there alike this one. wonderful. let's take a walk. there are many thai people here to see their seights, more than foreigners. look at these columns. feels like they are coverd with diamonds. everything looks so expensive.
especially compared to the street near the temple, where you can find lots of poor people. when the king of thailand, rama i, moved the capital from thonburi to bangkok, it was decided to build a palace that had to amaze with its magnificence. the building started on may 6, 1782 and was finished by 1785, after which it was a place of the king's coronation. the grand palace is a complex of buildings among which are the royal household, national library, government offices, temples and other things. for a long time it was used as the royal residence, now this is a place for ceremonies, weddings and funerals. and the king lives in the chitralada palace. the palace occupies an aria of 218,000 km2 and surrounded by a 2 km long stone wall. the buildings are mostly covered with gold and frescoes illustrating 148 episodes from the life of rama i.
the grand palace is one of the most famous tourist destinations in bangkok. the entry ticket costs 500 baht. you can see people behind me lined up somewhere. most of them must be thai and like 99,9 % of them are in black. like i said the king passed away recently. i don't know where they're going, because everything is written in thai and we don't get all that circle stuff. but i think that grand palace is spelt wrong here. if memory serves, "palce" is spelt differently, as far as i remember english. i've noticed that the thai are very bad at english.
even the guides working here speak english so bad, with such a thai accent that you can't get whether they speak english or thai. it's quite a problem to explain something. but you can use maps and gestures, so it's not that bad. hot, isn't it? they have free water here. you can have some water for free. i'm so thisrty. fuji ice. from fuji. maybe it's brought from fuji.
- so good. tasty. - and me? the day we visited the palace complex, was the end of the 50-days mourning for the king rama ix. hundreds of thousands of people wearing black clothes lined up to the temple to bid farewell to the king. some were crying. for that short time i've spent in thailand, i realised that the king isn't just a ruler of the country for the natives, but something like a saint in the flesh. till the end of world war ii, there was the same attitude to the emperor and his family in japan. during the mourning the city was decorated with black and white ribbons, and you could really feel the grief and a great loss.
later we learnt about what was happening that day. all day they were giving free cold water and sweet buns near the grand palace and other temples. it was quite a help in a hot weather. our airline sponsor is tinkoff bank. it gives the special conditions for all my subscribers. applying all airlines card by link in description, you get 3,000 miles as a gift that you can spend on travelling. and applying tinkoff black you get six months of free services. more information and links are in description down below. do you know what surprises me most in bangkok?
how beauty and greatness coexist with poorness and dirt. if you go away from the grand palace and other temples to the next street, you'll get in the slums. a filthy street full of rubbish with the old leaning buildings standing alongside. the road is heaped with cloths, bowls and what not. feels like people live right here in the street, like it's a poor block in the middle of the capital of thailand. worst part is that all this stuff stinks. bangkok is a very dirty city. the rubbish bags lie near every other pole and it seems like nobody takes them away. the local people probably got used to it if they even eat near them.
but i haven't seen anything like this on phuket and samui. by the way, i've noticed that all thai pupils have the same hairstyle. the boys have short hair and the girls have a bob cut, as you can see. the uniform is also the same. it's green, but nobody let us go. it's hard to cross the road. people just run, but it's dangerous. travelling across thailand you can often see the buddhist monks in always orange clothes. it is believed in thailand that every person should become a monk for a few month. you can find them anywhere.
they don't have their own money and property, so they live off donation they get from the natives. even some thai kings followed the tradition, became monks and begged in the streets of bangkok. it'd be interesting to compare the life and doctrine of japanese and thai monks. we've bought mango for 25 baht. the girl's cutting it. looks professionally. we've bought mango in the street market. we saw how it was cut. we took two packets. let's try. smells nicely. delisious. so sweet.
it's very cold. cold and tasty. i've never bought that many mangoes. i'm happy. how much was it? - 25 baht for one. - that makes 50. - it's probably your part to finish first. - eh? then we went on khaosan road, that is said to be the most famous street of thailand. this is the street where leonardo dicaprio lived in a film the beach. khaosan road is a bussy street that never sleeps. by daylight it looks like an ordinary market with stalls selling clothes and souvenirs
and shops where they offer you all kinds of massage and food stalls. in the night it comes alive with people walking around, drinking and having fun. it's like people came here from all over the world. you can see foreigners wherever you look. they were selling fried scorpions here, but i didn't see anybody buying them. after walking the street, we got a taxi and went home. it was a long day but we managed to see the heart of thailand. i hope you enjoyed travelling with us. this is just the beginning of our travel.
next time we'll go to samui island where we get cought in a terrible shower and flood. then we'll visit phuket and phi phi islands. there are more interesting things to come. subscribe to an official group in vk to follow our project from east to west. there are lots of things about travelling there. the link is in description. i hope you enjoyed this video. subscribe to my channel if you haven't yet and subscribe to miki's channel. leave comments and click that like button.
see you next video. bye!
for him. for the driver. for the driver. for him. hello, my friends! i'm dmitry shamov. we continue our travelling across thailand. we've come to bangkok and already spent here a day visiting night market and walking the streets. today we'll go the center of bangkok to see the sights of this capital.
Chitralada Palace, we're in another taxi. here you can see lots of pictures and statuettes of a recently passed away king. looking at this you see how much thai people respected and loved their king. i've never seen anything like that before.
there are lots of white and black cloths and pictures of the king hanging all over the city. a taxi we went by last time had a counter, this one doesn't. you just need to haggle over price. we were offered to go for 300 baht, but we said it's too much and agreed on 250. we want to see the temples in the center. first, we wanted to see the royal palace, temple of reclining buddha and other majestic buildings. but that time they were helding ceremonies to commemorate the king of thailand. and a local guide offered us the other route. he suggested one and a half hour ride by boat on canals of bangkok and its neighboorhoods and we agreed. to get to a quay, we went by a popular in thailand auto rickshaw called here tuk-tuk.
basically, it' a motorized version of an ordinary rickshaw, that also wildly used in tourism in japan. the motorized version got wide use in india, indonesia, thailand and some other countries. tuk-tuk is a cheap three-wheeled taxi, where you have to agree the price. and don't forget to bargain. now we gonna take a boat to go to a village and visit a floating market. we were said that a 90-minutes ride on canals of bangkok and its neighbourhoods will cost 1,500 baht per person. but as we know about the bargain in thailand, first we made it down to 1,200 and then to 800 baht. maybe it's still an overprice, but as we don't know the local fees, we were glad to get almost 50% discount. for boating the canals they use the traditional thai long-tail boats, known here as ruea hang yao. it's one of the most wildly used watercraft in thailand.
the long-tail boats have a narrow long form up to 20-30 meters. down the stern stretches a long tail with a big engine taken from a truck or a pickup. it allows to sail both on the depth and narrow bangkok streets. the boat has a tent and a few benches for tourists. the bow of this transport is decorated with flowers, candles and incense sticks every day. the thai people believe that thus a spirit of me ya nang keeps them away from troubles. we're on our way to an old thai village. actually, we wanted to see the temples, but they have ceremonies at the moment. we were told to come later.
one of the guides offered us this trip, so we came here. i think all those shabby houses you can see belong to poor people. what do you think, miki? it's fun, but feels like i'm inside of typhoon. the wind is strong. stronger than before. - hope you guys can hear me. - i think they do. we're testing a new microphone which records the sound saparatly, that we'll synchronize with the video. looks like youkai. (supernatural creature from japanese myphology) it's great fun. the trip lasts for an hour. we wanted to go to the other place.
but we can't get there now. we were told we can look at an old thailand while we've got some time. it's not really what i expected. about a couple of hours drive from bangkok there's a floating market with boats where you can buy things. we don't have time though. we'd like to see the temples. and we were told that there's a small local floating market here. the boats will come to us, not we to them. we'll show you if we see them.
eventually we met this man who offered us to buy cola for 300 baht and beer for our driver for 400. the price is too high, not to mention the driver drinking during the trip. we didn't buy anything. and it looked nothing like a floating market. across the whole bangkok runs the chao phraya river, the ride on that lies through the slums and poor neighboorhoods. the guide said we'll pass an old real thailand, but i didn't expect anything like that. the slums consist of various hovels, sheds and god knows how bound pieces of iron, being someone's home. reminds me of that slumdog millionaire movie. almost every house has ropes with hanging clothes and different boxes, proving that it's not just a pile of garbage, but someones home.
i was really surprised to see lots of satellite dishes. seems like poor people like watching tv. the river water is dirty as you can clearly see, but local people fish here sometimes and even swim. magnificent temples covered with gold clearly stand out among these slums. although i liked the boat ride, it left some unpleasant feeling. watching films about poor life is one thing, but seeing it with your own eyes is different. we've bought a bottle of water here for 10 baht. we thought to buy a juice, but there were many insects flying around, so we didn't. when our ride was over, we still had half an hour before the opening so we decided to grab some lunch.
we're in a restaurant thinking what to choose from thai food. unfortunately, they have shripms almost everywhere, but i can't eat them. i've noticed that shrimps are often used in thai cuisine, even italian pasta is cooked with them. pad thai. i finally ordered it. yesterday we saw how it was cooked in the street and i wanted to try it. first you need to squeeze the lime. now you can eat. it's something like japanese yakisoba. looks delicious. - ah, right. pasta with shrimps, so dima can't eat it. - yeah, but i want to.
it tastes with shrimps. - i want it too. - you can't. pasta is sweet-spicy. reminds me of yakisoba. delicious. i can eat three of this. - and it doesn't cost much. about 140 baht? - yes. then i certainly can. i took beef fried with basil, sauce and different spices. i looked over the whole menu. they serve either japanese, thai or chinese food, but everything's with shrimps, so i had to take this.
i like beef anyway. i think it must be good. and the sauce isn't like in japan, it's in thai style, at least that's what the menu says. spicy, but tasty. tastes as if green kari was mixed with beef and some spices i don't the name of. very spicy. i need some water...but it's still tasty. ah, i'm alive. it seems like the main thing is not meat, but all these herbs, basil...oh, there's even a pepper. well, let's eat. sometimes street decoration and local design solution can surprise you.
if the bycicles look stylish, then a peeing dog in front of a restaurant does not. there are pay-toilets in thailand called luxury toilet. actually, all toilets here in malls and anywhere else are quite good and clean, so i don't see much point in these ones. then we went to see the grand palace, that has been the residence of the kings for centuries. they check everybody thoroughly at the entrance. they searched every single pocket of my bag. it took two minutes or so. just at the entrance we saw a little performance of the thai soldiers. the beginning. the end.
we're going to the entrance, but they have strict rules about clothes. you cannot wear shorts, sandals, short-sleeved dresses or shirts. they must be at least like mine. and some jeans or trousers, but not ripped. they check it all. even if you're wearing a shawl above a sleeveless shirt, it won't work. let's go. maybe they won't let me like this. so i took this.
- they don't let in sneakers, right? - yes. miki says you can't wear sneakers here, only ordinary shoes. it's hot. it's so hot, but we have to wear jeans and long-sleeved shirts. but these are the rules. you can find many travellers who say that you mustn't wear in the temple shirts like these, shorts and sandals, but it's ok to put on a shawl. actually, it's not. they've got a new rule saying that you can't wear a scarf or a shawl. they won't let you in and you'll be asked to come next time or to change your clothes.
if you ever come to thailand, keep in mind that you should wear some jeans and a t-shirt like this or something long-sleeved, so you won't have any problems. we've got tickets. it's 500 baht per person. we were just in time. and they really don't let in with bare arms and legs. the rules are stricter for women. you can't just put something around your shoulders. well, let's go. i wonder what we will see.
everything seems so unreal. the gold and frescoes are everywhere. amazing! i've seen places like this in the pictures and now i finally see it in real. if you've ever played far cry 4, there are places there alike this one. wonderful. let's take a walk. there are many thai people here to see their seights, more than foreigners. look at these columns. feels like they are coverd with diamonds. everything looks so expensive.
especially compared to the street near the temple, where you can find lots of poor people. when the king of thailand, rama i, moved the capital from thonburi to bangkok, it was decided to build a palace that had to amaze with its magnificence. the building started on may 6, 1782 and was finished by 1785, after which it was a place of the king's coronation. the grand palace is a complex of buildings among which are the royal household, national library, government offices, temples and other things. for a long time it was used as the royal residence, now this is a place for ceremonies, weddings and funerals. and the king lives in the chitralada palace. the palace occupies an aria of 218,000 km2 and surrounded by a 2 km long stone wall. the buildings are mostly covered with gold and frescoes illustrating 148 episodes from the life of rama i.
the grand palace is one of the most famous tourist destinations in bangkok. the entry ticket costs 500 baht. you can see people behind me lined up somewhere. most of them must be thai and like 99,9 % of them are in black. like i said the king passed away recently. i don't know where they're going, because everything is written in thai and we don't get all that circle stuff. but i think that grand palace is spelt wrong here. if memory serves, "palce" is spelt differently, as far as i remember english. i've noticed that the thai are very bad at english.
even the guides working here speak english so bad, with such a thai accent that you can't get whether they speak english or thai. it's quite a problem to explain something. but you can use maps and gestures, so it's not that bad. hot, isn't it? they have free water here. you can have some water for free. i'm so thisrty. fuji ice. from fuji. maybe it's brought from fuji.
- so good. tasty. - and me? the day we visited the palace complex, was the end of the 50-days mourning for the king rama ix. hundreds of thousands of people wearing black clothes lined up to the temple to bid farewell to the king. some were crying. for that short time i've spent in thailand, i realised that the king isn't just a ruler of the country for the natives, but something like a saint in the flesh. till the end of world war ii, there was the same attitude to the emperor and his family in japan. during the mourning the city was decorated with black and white ribbons, and you could really feel the grief and a great loss.
later we learnt about what was happening that day. all day they were giving free cold water and sweet buns near the grand palace and other temples. it was quite a help in a hot weather. our airline sponsor is tinkoff bank. it gives the special conditions for all my subscribers. applying all airlines card by link in description, you get 3,000 miles as a gift that you can spend on travelling. and applying tinkoff black you get six months of free services. more information and links are in description down below. do you know what surprises me most in bangkok?
how beauty and greatness coexist with poorness and dirt. if you go away from the grand palace and other temples to the next street, you'll get in the slums. a filthy street full of rubbish with the old leaning buildings standing alongside. the road is heaped with cloths, bowls and what not. feels like people live right here in the street, like it's a poor block in the middle of the capital of thailand. worst part is that all this stuff stinks. bangkok is a very dirty city. the rubbish bags lie near every other pole and it seems like nobody takes them away. the local people probably got used to it if they even eat near them.
but i haven't seen anything like this on phuket and samui. by the way, i've noticed that all thai pupils have the same hairstyle. the boys have short hair and the girls have a bob cut, as you can see. the uniform is also the same. it's green, but nobody let us go. it's hard to cross the road. people just run, but it's dangerous. travelling across thailand you can often see the buddhist monks in always orange clothes. it is believed in thailand that every person should become a monk for a few month. you can find them anywhere.
they don't have their own money and property, so they live off donation they get from the natives. even some thai kings followed the tradition, became monks and begged in the streets of bangkok. it'd be interesting to compare the life and doctrine of japanese and thai monks. we've bought mango for 25 baht. the girl's cutting it. looks professionally. we've bought mango in the street market. we saw how it was cut. we took two packets. let's try. smells nicely. delisious. so sweet.
it's very cold. cold and tasty. i've never bought that many mangoes. i'm happy. how much was it? - 25 baht for one. - that makes 50. - it's probably your part to finish first. - eh? then we went on khaosan road, that is said to be the most famous street of thailand. this is the street where leonardo dicaprio lived in a film the beach. khaosan road is a bussy street that never sleeps. by daylight it looks like an ordinary market with stalls selling clothes and souvenirs
and shops where they offer you all kinds of massage and food stalls. in the night it comes alive with people walking around, drinking and having fun. it's like people came here from all over the world. you can see foreigners wherever you look. they were selling fried scorpions here, but i didn't see anybody buying them. after walking the street, we got a taxi and went home. it was a long day but we managed to see the heart of thailand. i hope you enjoyed travelling with us. this is just the beginning of our travel.
next time we'll go to samui island where we get cought in a terrible shower and flood. then we'll visit phuket and phi phi islands. there are more interesting things to come. subscribe to an official group in vk to follow our project from east to west. there are lots of things about travelling there. the link is in description. i hope you enjoyed this video. subscribe to my channel if you haven't yet and subscribe to miki's channel. leave comments and click that like button.
see you next video. bye!