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Thanks man!

Thanks for the info. However, I did not intend to collect and sell bat guano. 😅

@@motkawon Sorry , I meant that FYI only. You doesn't mean you. Matter of speech.😉

Hey, I've done that, it only made it into the video😅like unfortunately some other things...

Thank you!

I'm sure I will at some point!

Thanks for the kind words. Happy you liked it!

Yes, food is great over there!!

It's of course far more than that and I didn't say it's only that. I said it is a perfect spot if you wanna have a layover. Don't mean to be insulting, you could have of course weeks there and not seen everything, like with all cities that size.

Im glad he says that so all this traveller or tourist flooding KL would go away..

@@motkawon obviously ur just stopping by to gain subs but ur ultimate destinations are somewhere else most prob d sex country of thailand as most young westerners..we are not dumb if u dont think kl or malaysia isnt worth a visit just skip it altogether

​@@nurulnabila2766 I wish traveller stay longer...illegal immigrants to go away

@@nurulnabila2766 don't you think it also brings some value to have tourists over? If not for the people who earn their living in tourism?

Hi, I went with the tour from Coco Hostel. I don't know if the operator is called Coco too, but I think that hostel offer only that one.

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You're welcome. Thank you for watching!

Well for everyone I have known who's been there it has always only been paradise 😅

@@motkawon consider yourselves lucky

@@return4570 did some reading up on that. Seems it's got that from 11 westerners dead within a decade. Feel that doesn't make it an actual unsafe place then, looking at how many travel there every day and get back safely.

@@motkawon I lived in Thailand for 2 years, and have visited most of it and spent about 10 years in Southeast Asia. Koh Tao is an especially dangerous place - I had my own experiences there as well. It is run by mafia and is swarming with hitmen from the mainland. A LOT goes unreported. When things can’t be swept under the rug, there is a lot of denial and corruption - and those responsible for some heinous acts still roam the island. As I said - count yourself lucky - don’t go into denial just because you had an ok time and you don’t want to go back on what you said in your video Anyone who wants to know more can google it - and there and a lot of TH-cam videos on the subject It’s an especially dangerous place and by going there you are giving your money to mafia and killers who target foreigners

@@return4570 well I'm not gonna argue about that as I don't have the knowledge. Just speaking of my experience and the people I met, all had good times. I'm honestly not gonna read up more on that topic because then I would have to do for all places that have a dangerous side and then there wouldn't be many places left. But still thanks for the heads up.

Thanks, appreciate the nice words! Maybe TH-cam will join in on your opinion at some point too😂

Mate, been so good to look back at this. We had the best time! Pai episode incoming soon 😉

Hi, Hope you're doing well over there!

Great , thanks 🙏

Thanks. Really like this side of the world ;)

I lost connection flying it around the Mua Cave viewpoint in Ninh Binh. It crashed into the mountain. Funnily it was found and sent back to me months later when I was back home and it still worked. Found a new owner since.

Indeed. Can absolutely understand why it's been the south east Asia go to country for decades now.

I never intended to frame Sydney in a particularly bad way. I simply share my impressions and feelings and fair enough, it's a huge privilege to be able to travel. But remembering that doesn't always make every travel day a wonderful day and I don't aim to pretend every day on my trip was like that. Could I have appreciated Sydney more for what it is? Sure! But in that moment, I wasn't able to. If I tried to click bait I'd have named the Video "10 reasons why I hated Sydney" Instead the title is literally just the way I felt during my time there.

@@motkawon oh absolutely, travelling is tiring and it is hard work to stay fresh....big citys often are indeed confronting if you have been in nature and quiet. My comments were more generalised to the sometimes syndrome, of bagging a place, city, nation for small reasons. Just a preference only to put forward the positives of a place.But youthful views and impressions are valued. Appreciate the honesty of course. Dont believe you are clickbaiting, but there are a lot more travel bloggers doing it now. Competitive market i guess. Happy travels.

Thanks, I will :D

I filmed this about 9 months ago already 😅. But thanks, will defo go back to Thailand at some point and this then is on the list 👍

Thanks man! Actually going back to Cuckoos in April because I loved it so much :D

It absolutely is!

Hey, not entirely sure but I think around 185USD for self driver 3days/2nights tour. With an easy rider it's just a few bucks more. I booked it through my Hanoi hostel. All the hostels there do have partnerships with Ha Giang tour operators.

Awesome, thank you

We did the loop with “Authentic Ha Giang” tour company. We paid 460 for me, my wife and an easy rider. We had private rooms and did 4 days. There was happy water, but no techno party atmosphere. Included was a night of accommodation before and after the tour plus round trip on VIP sleeper bus from Hanoi. It was just the 3 of us on the loop tour.

@@ChrisSlack sounds pretty alright to me with private rooms and bus transfer etc. all included.

It's not that I was surprised by how busy it was. After the remoteness of New Zealand it was just difficult to handle.

It's called Ha Giang Hostel. Can only recommend! Like most hostels in Ha Giang they all offer their own tour.

Happy it helped you out. You should absolutely do the loop, its a must and you will not regret it. If you want to go for a bit more party and nightlife, go with the Jasmine Hostel tour, I've heard people love it too. If you rather want to have it a little more intimate I can only suggest Ha Giang hostel. Mitigate your chances wasting a day being super hung over :D Just be aware, to see the entire country you must have at least 3 weeks, i had three, only made it to Hoi An really, taking a flight from there to Ho Chi Minh as I no time left and still felt really burned out at the end.

@@motkawon Thanks for the tips :) I'm staying for 2 weeks, besides Ha Giang, and flying out from Ho Chi Minh, no other plans, probably add some place in the middle of Vietnam, maybe Hoi An, maybe not. Leave something for the next time, hahaha ;)

Thanks for the correction. I was told it belongs to Bali but now did some research and it indeed officially belongs to Lombok.

Keduanya sama-sama pulau yang berada di indonesia kebanyakan turis asing taunya gili bagin dari bali , kesimpulannya dia kurang mencari tau kadi tolong di mengerti🙏

Pretty much just a cute name for a stomach bug/food poisoning from bacteria in the food and water. Western tourists get it all over Asia but in Indonesia it seems to hit more people than in other places. Also once people survived Indo, Thailand and Vietnam seem fine 😂 don't know about India tbh

@@motkawon Ah! thats interesting but also scary. Happy that it did not effect you a lot. Haven't heard such a thing in India but wont be surprised if those spices don't agree with the westerners😂

Happy I could help. You'll love it, despite the many tourists 😉

Looking forward to get to see that side of Australia in 2024❤

Thank you!

Ich hab's mal versucht, aber ohne Gimbal nicht einfach 😂

I'm well aware of that and this is why I specifically mentioned Bali only! However, I stay by what I said regarding my mixed feelings about the mass tourism on Bali.

Appreciate that you took the time to write that comment. I explain a bit more about that in a later video. The biggest down was not the city itself, it was the hostel I was staying in. I failed to gel with the place and felt quite lonely for a few days, despite the hostel being huge and super crowded. Also had a constant sleep deprivation as for the location of my room being next to a main road and a couple of other things. The reason I touch on the busyness of the city so much is just because I personally felt it so much these days, not because the city is so much busier than other major cities. But this is due to where I came from. After two months in New Zealand, mostly on my own avoiding hostels and loving the loneliness, it was just a huge contrast. However, I definitely liked Sydney and in fact, I'll be coming back to AUS for quite some time and also will visit Sydney again soon. I try not to create artificial drama as I don't see myself as a youtuber. I'm a guy who likes making videos who filmed his travels to have a bit of a digital diary and I put it here so friends and family can watch it. But I try to not create artificial moments, neither good or bad ones, I just say what I think or feel in that moment. In this case, if only watched this specific video, it might sound worse than it was. At the time, I just wasn't the happiest and struggled with being there and looked forward to move on, that's just how it was. I actually also moved on to Bali and in my Bali videos you'll hear me rambling about how overcrowded Bali is all the time, while I didn't feel that way later in Hanoi, despite it being Sydney on steroids. But I had adapted to that by then, I guess. Hoping this did shed some light on the whole topic.

Ok I understand. Thank you for your lengthy replay. I'm really sorry you had such a bad time with th accommodation. Due to a workplace injury, I've been watching a lot of YT for the past two years and I'm now beginning to see that YTer's seem to be focused on creating content over actually documenting their lives or travels. Perhaps I'm just imagining it, I don't know. I used to work the city for many years and I grew tired of it, then for many more years I traveled and worked outside of Sydney. And now, through YT I'm am re-discovering just how pretty and beautiful Sydney has become with all the clean up of its waterways, streets, etc. I hope when you come back you have a much more pleasant experience. Please try to get away from the city itself (try Cronulla, or Bundeena) and seek out other cities and locations: Wollongong, Kiama, or Jervis Bay. The west coast of Australia is stunning and Queensland has it good points too, as do Victoria and South Australia. Even venture into the interior for some real change of pace. I wish you the best of safe travels. @@motkawon

@@gbsailing9436 I'm sure you're not wrong about the whole youtube thing and how it leads creators to exaggerate things to create more captivating content towards the better or the worse. I guess you always also have to factor in how people are different, some more energetic and outgoing and others are less of that. And of course cultural differences, I wanna say most German youtubers will not throw in a "this is so amazing" every two minutes like maybe US youtubers probably would, simply as Germans often are a bit calmer, more reserved. It's not even, that I had such a bad time, it was just not a constant high like the two months before, this is why I sad Ups and Downs. But overall I much enjoyed my time in Sydney and looking forward to go back and have much more time there. Thanks for all the recos, will arrive in Perth and do the Westcoast first to then see where things lead me to.

Enjoy! @@motkawon

@@motkawonPerth is nice with less than half the population of Sydney.

Ich mochte die Sprache schon immer, hab einige Monate in Neuseeland gelebt, das hat natürlich geholfen und hatte seitdem immer Lebensumstände, in denen ich relativ viel Englisch lesen, schreiben und sprechen musste.

Thanks a lot! Appreciate your comment ❤